FACETS Film Trivia is back at 7pm on Thursday, July 25th with our classic brand of infotainment quiz show fun, followed up by a free live show from local punk band Rat Chasm and a screening of Alex Cox’s Repo Man (1984).

A young punk rocker becomes a car repo man and finds himself after the same car as a violent rival repo company and the U.S. government.

This is the quintessential American punksploitation film. Written and directed by British filmmaker Alex Cox, Repo Man stands firmly as one of the most acerbic and absurd critiques of Reagan’s America. Using the then new and vibrant U.S. hardcore punk scene as a backdrop for wayward youth, the film takes a sarcastic look at rising sociopolitically conservative groups such as the religious right and the US government itself. Equally fed up with the left, Repo Man also pulls no punches in mocking the failure of ‘60s radicalism and the put-on nihilism of the punk movement itself.

Propelled by a soundtrack featuring now classic songs by hardcore legends Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, and Fear, as well as the theme song by the godfather of punk Iggy Pop, Repo Man is the cinematic high mark of the American punk rock subculture as sociopolitical counterculture in the 1980s. It sure doesn’t hurt that it’s infinitely quotable and absolutely hilarious.