[FairfieldLife] Movie Review: The Sleep Dealer
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.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Movie Review: The Sleep Dealer
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.
