Repo! The Genetic Opera Page #3

Synopsis: In the year 2056 - the not so distant future - an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young girl searches for the cure to her own rare disease as well as information about her family's mysterious history. After being sucked into the haunting world of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera.
Director(s): Darren Lynn Bousman
Production: Lionsgate Films
  3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
32
Rotten Tomatoes:
35%
R
Year:
2008
98 min
$100,000
Website
2,338 Views


to my daughter

The mind behind

the Zydrate support network

Welcome Amber to the stage

Welcome Amber to the stage

How old are you?

I had my first surgery

when I was 13.

And thanks to Z,

I couldn't feel

or remember a thing.

A month later, I was turning tricks.

I'll keep a lock on it all

Drug market

Submarket

Sometimes I wonder

why I ever got in

Blood market

Love market

Sometimes I wonder

why they need me at all

Zydrate comes

in a little glass vial.

A little glass vial?

A little glass vial.

And the little glass vial

goes into the gun like a battery.

And the Zydrate gun

goes somewhere

against your anatomy.

And when the gun goes off, it sparks,

and you're ready for surgery.

Surgery.

Grave Robber

Sometimes I wonder

why I even bother

Grave Robber

Sometimes I wonder

why I need you at all

And Amber Sweet

is addicted to the knife.

Addicted to the knife?

And addicted to the knife,

she needs a little help with the agony.

Agony.

And a little help comes

in a little glass vial

in a gun pressed

against her anatomy.

And when the gun goes off,

Miss Sweet is ready

for surgery, surgery.

Grave Robber

Sometimes I wonder

why I need you at all

It's clean, it's clear, it's pure.

- It's what?

- It's rare.

It takes you there.

It what?

It takes you there

It's clean, it's clear...

Before the cut

It's clean, it's clear...

I can do nothing at all

It's surgery, it's surgery.

It's surgery.

It's the way your friends

may change inside.

Feel alive

Hey, that's Blind Mag's song.

Who did that?

So you think you got heart

So you think you got balls

So you think Mag can sing

I don't think nothing at all

So you think Mag has pipes.

Well, it's my turn to shine.

When the Repo Man strikes!

What are you talking about?

Mag's contract's got

some mighty fine print.

Some mighty fine print?

Some mighty fine...

And that mighty fine print

puts Mag in a mighty fine predicament.

If Mag up and splits,

her eyes are forfeit.

And if GeneCo and Rotti so will it,

then a repo man will come,

and she'll pay for that surgery.

Surgery.

Surgery.

I can't feel nothing at all

Cleanin' up the city since 030

I can't feel nothing at all

Sir, we have Amber.

We're bringing her in.

Incoming message.

Nathan Wallace, come to mu office at once.

Honey?

Are you awake?

Well, who ordered pizza?

I could sure go for a slice!

Oh, never too pressed

for that dramatical entrance

You wanted to see me?

Thank you for coming

Have your new assignment

Hot off the meat truck!

Is there a reason why

You couldn't phone me this target?

This is a job of special importance.

It is involving a GeneCo employee,

a singer we all know.

That has-been soprano

A traitor to GeneCo

Tonight is her last show

I can't afford a scandal here

Please handle Mag as best you can.

Take her down

But Mag's eyes...

Are GeneCo's.

I know this may seem hard

Mag was Marni's best friend

You break my friggin' heart

You can reunite them.

I cannot do this job

Remember who you are.

Remember what you did to Marni.

Must I take you back there

Please don't take me back there

Why relive that moment?

I can't relive it

That dark, fateful night

When you murdered your wife

It's too painful

Marni was past helping

Shilo's life was slipping

Shilo was slipping

She needed her dad,

and I needed skilled hands

So I fixed things

We made an agreement

I will honor that agreement

- You'll do as you're told

- I'll do as I'm told

So Shilo never knows

About that dark and fateful night.

Or my secret repo life

Don't deny your repo life

Dear Marni, I am so sorry

Can you forgive me for this?

Not the death doctor

with the hungry scalpel

Here's my prognosis, will they live?

Doubtful.

You're the street physician

Carving rare sculptures

Paint your ass like a Rembrandt

Ha! You like that?

Better start praying

when you see him coming

For tonight, it's curtains

You're the night surgeon

I remember

Remember what you did to Marni

And who you are

I remember

Remember what you did

To your knife!

See it glide.

See it slice!

Who's your night surgeon?

I hope you have my money

Or it's buon viaggi

He'll do your ass like dishes

Amputation

Remember who you are

- Please, please, please!

- I remember

Remember what you did to Marni

Remember who you are

I remember

Remember what you did to her

Remember who you are

I remember

Remember what you did to Marni

Remember who you are

I remember

Remember what you did to her

I remember every dying whisper

Every desperate murmur

I remember when I gazed upon her

She looks just like you

I remember

I remember working every victim

With acute precision

I remember every time I hold you

My blunt companion

I remember

I dismember

'Cause the claims medic gives no anesthetic

gets you repo treatment

Remember horror

on your street corner

Make your mama boil you

I'm a night surgeon

I remember

Nathan!

I cannot do this job.

Find someone else.

No one walks away from me.

He wants out?

Then I will take him out.

Shilo? Is your name Shilo?

Can I talk to you?

Can you come down, please?

- Why?

- So we can speak.

I saw you at the show

I thought I'd seen a ghost

Your resemblance is striking.

You have your mother's eyes, her hair

I was told you died with her

All these years have come and gone

How do I put this?

I'm your godmom

State your business.

Business?

What do you want?

I want, I want

To finally meet you

Something real

to cling to, leave you

With the hope that you will go to

All you're meant to, all I failed to

In you is a world of promise

We have both been

kept in bondage

But you could learn

from all my failures.

I'm not supposed to talk to strangers.

Or let them through the gate?

That, either. A big risk.

- A big fence.

- A big mistake.

A new friend.

Oh, my God. Mom?

How'd you do that?

- Do what?

- That. That eye thing.

These eyes can do more than see.

I know. I mean, I've seen you sing.

- Where?

- From my window.

I can see the world from there.

Name the stars and constellations.

Count the cars

and watch the seasons.

I wish we could have watched together

I can't have guests.

- Never?

- Ever.

If Dad found out

that I'd been let out

or that you'd been let in...

I should go, then, before I do

- Promise me you won't

- Better that you don't.

Don't forget a sheltered rose

It's best if I resume my life

Needs a little room to bloom

outside her bedroom

Chase the morning

Yield for nothing

Chase the morning

Yield for nothing

Let your life be a dream

Integrity, honesty

It's too late for me

Don't look back

Till you're free

to chase the morning

Yield for nothing

Chase the morning

Yield for nothing

Yield for nothing

Hi, Nathan.

Mag.

How did you get in here?

Don't you have a show tonight?

- How are you, Nathan?

- Busy.

You never were

A man of many words, Nate

- You told me Shilo died

- Listen...

Nathan, I promised your late wife

I'd be present in Shilo's life

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