Sleep Dealer is a futuristic science fiction movie of 2008 directed by Alex Rivera.
Sleep Dealer describes the future of dystopian to explore ways in which technology oppresses and connects migrants. The fortified wall has put an end to illegal Mexican-US immigration, but migrant workers are replaced by robots, controlled remotely by the same class of prospective emigrants. The strength of their lives must be exhausted, and they are discharged without medical compensation.
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Plot
Sleep Dealer is set in the future, the military world is characterized by closed boundaries, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins thoughts and experiences, where three aliens risk their lives to connect with each other and break the technological barriers.
Memo Cruz works in a factory, one of the few sleeper dealers. Here, the workers connect to the network via suspended cables that connect to the knot in their arms and back, allowing them to control the robots that have replaced them as unskilled labor on the other side of the border. Seller sleep is so called because someone can collapse if working long enough. The story is told as a flashback, remembering Memo recalling his home in Santa Ana Del Rio, Oaxaca. His father wanted him to participate in planting crops in a few family homes. However, Memo's passion is electronic and hacking. The homestead has also dried up because of the dam being built nearby and owned by private company Del Rio Water. The memo and his father had to walk to buy water with bags, while being monitored by security cameras armed with machine guns. Media on hi-def American TVs shows a glimpse of technological dystopia, though in positive light with superficial spin-doctoring. As a hobby, Memo builds an electronic receiver that can utilize communication. As he continued to work on it, his reach increased to distant cities.
One summer, a remote controlled military air vehicle operated by the Del Rio Water security forces captured a Memo that monitored the frequencies used by the drone, an act that guarantees brutal attacks. He decides the time before the drone can find him for sure. On another occasion, he and his brother watched live TV broadcasts about the unmanned drone action that would destroy a building known to disrupt unmanned drone aircraft. They quickly realize that the building is their own home where Memo owns his equipment, and runs to save their father whose life is in danger. However, they are late, and the vehicle launches a rocket to the father, instantly kills him. This unmanned drone pilot proved to be Rudy Ramirez. Memo boarded a bus to Tijuana city to find a job.
The same bus was also driven by Luz MartÃÆ'nez. A notice memo that Luz has a knot in the wrist to interact with the digital network, and asks where he can get it for free. He tells him that he can find someone, known as coyotek, to connect him by wondering in a certain hallway. Luz has a loan and may default. He made a living by uploading memories to an online memory trading company, TruNode, where viewers pay for content. He uploaded his memories about Memos.
Memo robbed his money during his first attempt to find coyotek. He found abandoned huts where to stay on the edge of town, where other knot workers lived. Luz gets a sale for his Memo memories, and a prepaid offer for his next memories of himself. Luz finds him and knows he runs out of money. She helped her get a knot job in the bar that had the equipment. Incidentally he is a coyotek, after learning from his ex-girlfriend, and he did something for her.
Luz tries to upload more experience. TruNode makes it express a feeling not just a story. The person who requested the information was downgraded to Ramirez who worked for Del Rio Water. Luz and Memo are open to each other and have sex. Upon receiving his next upload, Ramirez has doubts that his work has killed him.
Memo discovers that Luz has been paid to upload his memory of him, and so he leaves him feeling betrayed. She works late at the sleeping-agent, at risk of fatigue. Luz writes to him and sends his memories of recording as a farewell gift. Meanwhile, Ramirez has crossed a fortified US-Mexican border to meet Memo. When Ramirez explains himself, Memo tries to run away from danger. Ramirez captures and explains that he is under orders and offers help.
The memo rejoined Luz and recruited his help to connect Ramirez into the network. He accessed Del Rio Water's security network to control one of the company's drones. After the discovery that Ramirez disobeyed orders, Ramirez was pursued by another drone. After a heated air battle, Ramirez managed to blow up a hole in the dam, directly where Memo's father once threw pebbles into a helpless frustration. The memo receives news from home and its neighboring subsistence farm, the celebration of the return of ancestral water, though not necessarily a permanent one. Ramirez went further south in Mexico because he could no longer return to his family in the US. Memo continued his life in Tijuana.
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Cast
- Leonor Varela as Luz MartÃÆ'nez
- Jacob Vargas as Rudy Ramirez
- Luis Fernando Pea as Cruz Memo
Reception
Sleep Dealer generally well received by critics, with 70% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The film won the Waldo Screenwriting Award, Alfred P. Sloan Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, The HR Giger Award for Best International Film at The NeuchÃÆ' Â ¢ tel International Fantastic Film Festival, and specifically mentioned the Amnesty International Film Prize at the Berlin Film Festival 2008. The film was nominated for Breakthrough director at the 2008 Gotham Independent Film Awards, and the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature in 2009.
A.O. Scott, of The New York Times wrote "Very entertaining - a dystopian tale of globalization masquerading as a science fiction adventure.... Mr. Rivera - a brilliant young director - takes his audience into the future" aqua- terrorism "and cyberlabor which I hope I can get rid of as unreasonable..." in his review of the New Festival 2008/New Film Festival.
Kenneth Turan, of Los Angeles Times wrote "The adventurous, ambitious and cunning futurist," Sleep Dealer "is a welcome surprise.This combines scientific fictional visuals done on a budget with a strong social understanding, in a way that some films try, let alone reach... "in his review of the movie.
References
External links
- Official website
- Sleep Dealer at Rotten Tomatoes
- Sleep Dealer on IMDb
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