Repo Man: Ordinary effing people

The punk, sci-fi comedy got much of the Reagan-era underbelly right, while serving as a vehicle for 80s atomic anxiety.

I grew up in Upper Arlington, Ohio, a leafy, orderly suburb and quite the respectable place. That means that the chances of me embracing the punk movement were somewhere around the odds of finding life on Venus. Not only was conformity the order of the day, there was little about me that was especially rebellious. There was nothing much to push against.…