I reviewed Repo Men for Moving Pictures.
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| Creators need to enact a moratorium on Schrödinger’s cat. It was first postulated in 1935 when Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger suggested that a fatally poisoned cat in a closed box is not truly dead until the lid is removed. Thus, while in the closed box, the cat remains simultaneously alive and dead. In recent years, authors have littered the physics-cum-philosophy paradox throughout pop culture in a vain attempt to display alternative or indie chops. After an audio montage of dystopian news reports, “Repo Men” opens with repo man Remy (Jude Law) working at a typewriter (yes, the actual 20th-century device) while his voiceover relates the tale of Schrödinger’s cat. |
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| First-time director Miguel Sapochnik does little to bolster the weak script. Incongruously lit as a rosy, optimistic tale, the story incorporates into this bleak world dingy bars, overweight people eating hot dogs from street vendors, and 1950s-style suburbs complete with neighborhood barbecue parties. Save for one excellent scene involving a doctor, the many attempts at humor seem forced. All of the action feels staged and derivative. |
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