Trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW8oSRSzS7M
Bhairitu wrote: > After watching a great first episode for season two of "Dollhouse" (they > finally got it right but that's another post) I popped in a Blu-Ray I > had rented of a Mexican film "The Sleep Dealer." I wasn't expecting > much more than a B-Movie and was I surprised. This film is one of the > best sci-fi movies I've seen and I think will become a classic. The > movie takes place in the future where there is a global economy and even > the rural poor villages of Mexico have some technology. The story is > about a young man who is a hacker and hacks into communication > satellites with his own homebuilt gear. His village is very poor > because a dam has been built due to privatization of the water supply > and now they must pay for water to raise crops. Due to certain events > the young man winds up traveling north to find work. In this scenario > Mexican workers still work in the US but remain in Mexico. They work by > remote control of robots. To do this the person has to have ports > installed on their body to be plugged in. Sometimes this is done by > "coyoteks". People can also sell their memories online. > > The film is loaded with social commentary about globalism, police > states, the effect of technology, water wars and terrorism. It's rated > PG-13 and not watered down as a result. It won awards at Sundance and > other festivals and the script was developed at a Sundance workshop. > Well worth a watch: > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804529/ > > Chalk up two sci-fi hits "District 9" and "Sleep Dealer" both being > non-Hollywood productions. > > > >
