Debbi: “Duke, let’s go do some crimes.”
Duke: “Yeah. Let’s go get sushi… and not pay.”
—from Alex Cox’s “Repo Man.”
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Let’s have a little fun this week and talk about petty crime — before getting to the high-level criminals who loot countries instead of convenience stores.
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“Repo Man” is probably the funniest look at L.A.’s seedy underbelly — at least until “Pulp Fiction” in the ’90s — and somehow also the truest since Robert Towne and Roman Polanski gave us “Chinatown” in 1974. That’s no easy feat for an absurdist dark comedy about skanky repo men and secret government agents chasing after a Chevy Malibu with an alien in the trunk.
Stick a pin in “Chinatown” for now. I’ll take you back there momentarily.
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