Walker and Repo Man

[Craig Clark]

Apropos the discussion of Alex Cox's _Walker_ (which I rather enjoyed, 
but then didn't know the Costa Rican version of the story - thanks, 
David Casseres, for the info): I seem to have missed how we got onto 
this film, though I guess the Cuba discussion is an important part of 
it, but P-Listers probably have also seen Cox's earlier and IMHO far 
better film, _Repo Man_. Probably a film closer to the spirit of 
Philip K Dick than any of the mainstream Hollywood film versions of PKD's 
work, and it doesn't claim to be based on a Dick title. Also a 
deliciously Pynchonesque film, with rampant paranoia and bizarre 
conspiracies and oddball characters and great car chases and just 
about everything else...


Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"