This weekend my boyfriend and I were looking to rent a movie and we came across Repo: The Genetic Opera. (Unfortuantly, my boyfriend refused to rent it, but I still plan to see it.)
The movie takes place in the future after an epidemic which caused widespread organ failure. As a result, a company starts a business of selling organs to the many that need them. But if you default on your debt, they send the repo man after you!
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I thought that this was an interesting premise for a movie. Imagine if a legitimate fear was that your organs could be taken away from you. I wonder how would this change the view of bodies in society? Even though this movie is abstract I think it brings up a lot of the issues that we have talked about dealing with organ transplants.
PS. Paris Hilton is in the movie.
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This blog is created by students from Clemson University's spring 2009 course Women's Studies 459 - "Building Bodies: Women's Bodies in Theory and Practice." This class explores the construction of bodies from various methodological perspectives, focusing on five specific areas: theories of bodies; bodies and genders and sexes; “misbehaving” bodies; politics of bodies; and constructing bodies. We welcome comments and contributions to our posts and discussions.
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"Well-behaved women seldom make history."
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
-Madeleine K. Albright
"It is not possible to address society's needs at any level while ignoring the perspectives, priorities, and knowledge of more than half of the world's population."
-Rosina Wilshire of UNDP
"Women give life. We have the capacity to give life and light. We can take up our brooms and sweep the earth."
-Isabelle Letelier
"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
-Alice Walker
"Violence against women will end when legal, philanthropic, governmental and non-governmental organizations and impassioned individuals unite and stand up to say it is a priority, to say that the time for ending violence is now."
-Eve Ensler
"And ain't I a woman?"
-Sojourner Truth
"Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is frightening."
-Gertrude Stein
"Also we've found that when we discuss women's problems, we need the men to be present, so that they can contribute by giving their opinions of what to do about the problem. And so that they can learn as well. If they don't learn, they don't progress."
-Rigoberta Menchu (222)
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
-Madeleine K. Albright
"It is not possible to address society's needs at any level while ignoring the perspectives, priorities, and knowledge of more than half of the world's population."
-Rosina Wilshire of UNDP
"Women give life. We have the capacity to give life and light. We can take up our brooms and sweep the earth."
-Isabelle Letelier
"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
-Alice Walker
"Violence against women will end when legal, philanthropic, governmental and non-governmental organizations and impassioned individuals unite and stand up to say it is a priority, to say that the time for ending violence is now."
-Eve Ensler
"And ain't I a woman?"
-Sojourner Truth
"Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is frightening."
-Gertrude Stein
"Also we've found that when we discuss women's problems, we need the men to be present, so that they can contribute by giving their opinions of what to do about the problem. And so that they can learn as well. If they don't learn, they don't progress."
-Rigoberta Menchu (222)
for reading, watching, and so on...
The Body: A Reader. Mariam Fraser and Monica Greco, eds. (Routledge, 2005).
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Marjane Satrapi (Knopf, 2004).
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Marjane Satrapi (Knopf, 2004).
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When I was 23 had to get a tooth crowned. It's ridiculously expensive, so I actually had to finance it. It was a running joke in my family "3 more payments and this tooth is MINE!"
ReplyDeleteThis movie is truly absurd to watch...but in a fun way! Just wait...I really want to make a comment about it but I won't until you've seen it so that I don't ruin anything for you. But the idea of the repo man, if I remember correctly (because this was a late-night movie venture), is an assassin who comes after you if you default.
ReplyDeleteI think that it would most certainly change our views of the body. I think that most people, at least here, have a very strong sense of ownership in their bodies and this would certainly reduce it, at least to some degree. Although I feel a very strong sense of ownership in my car and I still have a few payments left on that. But still, I think that right now I have a far more different view of my body and a much stronger sense of ownership...perhaps because unlike my car, which I can separate from and even do without (theoretically...but I really love my Escape because it has a sun roof and it's just fun), I don't think that I can get by without my body too well. So I think that is a very interesting and hard to answer question. I wonder if people would take it extremely seriously or just blow it off? I feel like that would be devaluing life to some degree and certainly devaluing the body. I think that if organs ever become more of a commodity than donations it will cause the body to be even more objectified.