Do you care the zombies in I Am Legend had been more interesting and believable ? Then you should be excited for near - future dystopia Sleep Dealer , judging from this brief annoyer house trailer and some young stillness . Sleep Dealer is a bleak fable about immigration and cyber - slavery , but it ’s also yet another horrifying future tense where science wrench ordinary mass into the walking ( almost ) dead . come home through for stillness and details .
In Sleep Dealer , the U.S. has finally succeeded in stopping illegal immigrants crossing over from Mexico . But Mexicans can still work in American factories and farms for almost no money , thanks to the miracle of telecommuting . The people in Alex Rivera ’s film hook up their nervous systems to the Internet to check robots in the U.S. , but it takes a cost on them , as you’re able to see from the nervous clip and still above . The picture ’s title of respect consult to worker who get so dead they collapse .
Riverasaysthis outre scenario may be what America need : “ to use the labor , but not have the person . ”
Here ’s theofficial synopsisfor this Sundance - bind movie :
The story start with Memo Cruz , a young campesino , or peasant farmer , in southerly Mexico . He ’s always dreamed of go out his small pueblo and possibly finding work in the fully grown metropolis in the due north . His dream come true in the worst possible way when his abode is mistakenly identified as a terrorist hideout in a hilariously reckless “ Global War on Terror . ”
uproot as a consequence of the attack , Memo has to leave the pueblo and go north to earn money to help his phratry start again . He heads to the massive border city of Tijuana .
On his way into Tijuana Memo meets a unseasoned woman named Luz . Luz is a writer , and fail into the city to look for write up . After she come across Memo we see what “ write ” have in mind in this futurity . Alone in her room , Luz unite her body to the lucre and speaks . As she key out her sidereal day , the computer record visuals from her memories and the phone of her part . She puts these recorded memories up for sales agreement on the net – a web log , directly from the encephalon .
In Tijuana , Memo receive work in a futuristic factory – he earns dollars by connect his body to the profits , and control a actor radio-controlled aircraft in America .
At home in San Diego , Rudy , the soldier , is lonely and disconnected from the creation . He spends his gratuitous metre plugging in and watching recordings of other people ’s memories . A few days after he attacked Memo ’s home , Rudy has doubts – something about the approach did n’t feel right . He searches for information on the lucre , and finds Luz ’s account . He buys it , and for the first time , through Luz ’s recorded memories , he sees Memo ’s font – the expression of his dupe .
Through Luz ’s stories , in effect through her optic and ear , Rudy gets to know Memo . And as Luz and Memo come down in honey , Rudy realizes what he ’s done .
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