Repo Man 4K 1984 Ultra HD 2160p

A nuclear physicist (Harry Dean Stanton) drives a mysterious car, with an alien corpse in the trunk, and gangs of car impounders vie to find the fugitive against the backdrop of depressed Los Angeles.

User review
The aesthetic of 80's American cinema is beautiful!

It's all about simplicity. The directors, cameramen, actors, etc. don't bother with the frame. At the same time, all work well: they put perfectly, shoot perfectly, play well!

Do you see a shot in a movie now, when the hero lights up not immediately? And it's not a plot twist, it's just an ordinary person, and there's no sense to perfect a shot, which in the movie does not carry a special load. Now in movies everything is 'licked', and no matter how much the whole team of licked movies tries to make them believable and realistic, it's this 'cleanliness' of shots that spoils everything. In my subjective opinion. In the 80s they filmed simpler, more relaxed, and it turned out to be vital!

The movie 'Repo Man' is simple not only because of the simplicity of the movie language, but also because of the simplicity of the main moral of the movie - happiness is worthy of simple, pure in their thoughts people. It sounds banal and uninteresting to the modern viewer, but just think how great it is to see a simple truth in a movie! And when this truth - simple and clear, becomes obvious only at the very end of the movie, and it does not press on you with its banality from the very beginning, so it's great! Because you have to come to simple knowledge, and the way to it can be longer and more complicated than the way to complex matters.

The journey of the heroes of the movie 'Repo Man' lasted 1.5 hours of screen time, and during this period we - attentive viewers, found and felt almost the whole era of America in the 80s.

This movie is somewhat similar to Richard Linklater's 'Idlewild', or rather 'Idlewild' is similar to 'Repo Man' because it was made later. Although I think the authors of these movies are not familiar with each other's work, and the time itself inspired them to make such movies. And it doesn't matter that in 'Idle Man' there is no plot, and in 'Repo Man' it is solid and quite interesting, the essence of similarity is in the reasoning of the characters, in dialogs, in the sense of what is happening, which may not be....

By a strange coincidence, action and meaning are somehow opposed to each other in our lives, that is, if you are looking for meaning and reasoning, you, as a rule, do nothing, can't do and don't really want to; and when you are a man of action, spinning, spinning, busy with something, and if you are free, thinking about what else to do, then you have no desire and no time to reason about meaning.

The heroes of the movie 'Repo Man' are mostly active people, they are laborers who do not work in factories or offices for 8 hours, but work 'for themselves'. America offers great opportunities to work 'for yourself', there the prevalence of work 'for a percentage' is much higher than in our country. Accordingly, the mindset is a bit different and there are many times more active people. And sometimes it seems that Americans in general are all wooden, although even among them there are people thinking, searching, 'flying in the clouds'. Creative people like to write and make movies about them, but they are not always the main characters.

And the amazing thing about the movie 'Repo Man' is that the protagonist in general does not represent anything of himself, but at the same time accumulates all the energy of the movie around him. His determination, his calmness, lack of mercantilism, sincerity, and readiness for new things makes him the central figure around whom people of different types hang out, from whom he learns, but remains himself.

The protagonist of the movie Otto is somewhat similar to Captain Willard ('Apocalypse Now'), the comparison may seem sacrilegious, but it is not only in the external similarity of the two brothers (Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen), but also in the image of a calm, but at the same time closely following what is happening, grasping the essence, and, if necessary, able to find an approach to everyone, hero-vezunchik.

This movie is good, I genuinely liked it. And I wish many people liked it, but I know that it is impossible, soberly reasoning about the movie, you realize - bullshit is still that! ) But still, maybe you will see something special in it, and feel pure simple joy from the ridiculous fantastic ending, from the aesthetics of the 80s and the 'anchors' of the era, from Otto's blue eyes, from the dialogues and reasoning of the characters, from the movie as a whole.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (95.9 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Info Audio

#English: FLAC 1.0
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#German: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

Info Subtitles

English SDH, German, Spanish (Latin American).