June
21
  4:19:26 PM

Hollywood 2010 bioethics seminar #2: Repo Men

Well, at 22% this is one of the lowest ranking films on Rotten Tomatoes, but Repo Men does have something to do with bioethics, so here is the trailer. The idea is that sometime in the future, artificial organs are repossessed if the recipients fail to pay their gigantic debts promptly. This is a task which Jude Law and Forest Whitaker carry out mercilessly, giving an opportunity for lots of knives, blood, gunfire and explosions. Then Jude Law’s character needs a new heart. And he can’t pay. The imagination boggles. Well, actually, it doesn’t because the action scenes have been cloned from every other B-grade action movie. But it does make you think, however fleetingly, about the ethics of organ markets.




 

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