REPO MAN TEE

Repo Man is a satirical cult classic that skewers 1980s American consumerism, Reagan-era politics, and cultural emptiness through punk rock, nihilism, and sci-fi absurdity. Following Otto, a young punk who falls into the world of car repossession, the film uses the glowing Chevy Malibu—and the alien in its trunk—as a metaphor for the lure of the unknown in contrast to a hollow, routine existence. At its core, the movie is fiercely anti-establishment, critiquing corporations and government while searching for personal meaning in a meaningless system. That tension mirrors the stigma of surfing itself: the quiet obsession, the psychic toll, and the unspoken truth behind “only a surfer knows the feeling”—the desire to escape, or explode, after enduring the constant, grinding madness that comes with it.