Repo Men is a stylized futuristic tale of how credit is ruining society. It's gotten so bad in THIS future, that organs are being bought from a corporation that charges up the nose for a heart not even expecting most to be able to pay the monthly planned payments. When the "patient" doesn't, the corporation sends in the Repo Men. Guys that are not doctors that take the company's "products" out of the body with or without consent. The Company's two best Repos are played by Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. The problem arises when Jude's character Remy does a bad job and ends up in the hospital with an implant of his own.
The movie was a darkly lit film mostly because the Repos come in when the "patient" least expects them to. And the majority of the movie is done during the night or in dark places. There is excellent shadow work on both the main characters. There's a change of lighting on Jude once he's outfitted with his piece. This shows that he's had (forgive the pun) a change of heart for the people he's hurt in the past and wants to redeem himself in the future for. Forest's character comes into shadows still throughout the film up to the very end, without giving it away, he's a company man thru and thru.
The movie was directed by a newcomer director, Miguel Sapochnik, having only two other movies made. His director of Photography, Enrique Chediak has been working for fifteen years with a wide range of films to his credit. Most of Chediak's films have dark themes, with only a handful outside this norm.
