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Nice effects though.

Absolutely Fantastic

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Sleep dealer. I really, really liked this movie!I found it very underrated and really liked seeing cyberpunk from another country. In this case, a futuristic Mexico utilizes technology depriving the general population of a natural and organic lifestyle. It starts out in a rural setting where the only tech shown is used to oppressive the general population. As far as we can tell, anyways. The protagonist Memo, seeks out tech though despite the warnings and stories of his father about how life was before, and primarily how much better things were. The plot really begins when the son accepts tech and uses it for its benefits. Like most cyberpunk, most of the rest of the film goes into the downside of tech and the people in control of it. Spoilers! X X X X X X XWhen his choices get his father killed. He begins to go move against the system, as in the genre that always gets a loved one killed so it's not surprising. What IS surprising is that the protagonist in this case is a really relatable and more socially adjusted hero than most of the genre. In fact, everyone else isn't because of technology - but we don't learn about that until later. To reinforce the rural pastiche combined with Mexican culture I really enjoyed that cyberpunk music basically doesn't exist in the movie at all. It makes it feel authentic, different, and genuinely new. The theme can ultimately be boiled down to this but there's some great sub themes/plots at work as well:"Sometimes you control the machine and sometimes the machine controls you"Organic seemed to be a pretty warm colour pallet with technology contrasting it. There appeared to be a colour pallet for each character, however it may have been different themes as I only noticed towards the end. So rather than specifically each character it may have been something else but I noticed when it switched for each character so, not positive. It seemed to be:Green for Rudy Blue for memo And red for the LuzThis is where things got even more interesting as the story diverges from just Memo to weave a narrative that interacts with Memo and eventually, all of them. He moves from his small town to the big city to make money and send it home. He needs to support his family now. Slowly the other narratives work their way in, this worked only somewhat for Rudy, and pretty well for Luz and Memo. Here in the city the theme is really reinforced by Luz who's all but swallowed by the city by now. In order to get by the main piece of tech is introduced: people sell their memories "online". She's trying to weave narratives in order to get by, and when she meets Memo their initial relationship is there only so she can sell the memories so she can get by. Of course this eventually leads to drama but during which Luz is has a great line:"What was it like to work with something so...real?"She's talking about Memo working the earth with his father, a really foreign concept to many people nowadays, including me. But in the movie it's even more of a crazy concept as the other way people get by is by hooking themselves up to a device that lets them do jobs in America via robots. It's commentary on foreign workers in America and what that could possibly lead to is really interesting and meshed well with the overall theme at play. Memo utilizes this technology despite that he quickly realizes it isn't good for him but he makes money and sends it back home anyways. It turns out that Luz's tech is robbing her of her memories because just like social media now, she only finds them valuable if people pay for them and validate them. And Memo, his tech is robbing him of his humanity and slowly, his life. He has to modify his body to use the tech and he begins to understand why the factories are called sleep dealers after he's sucked into the same cycle everyone else is in the city. How they decide to fight the system is both overt and subtle. I really liked this line from it where Memo says: "What happened to the river was happening to me" I'm not going to spoil the meaning but I really liked that comparison and what they do to take back some control. It all creates a very satisfying loop that eventually ties back into a really organic story. It was very surprising because it's not really rated that well at all. I love seeing cyberpunk from other lens's and this futuristic, organic tale of Mexico really hit all my buttons. It doesn't have cheap production values either. Check it out!

The plot: A Mexican laborer, falsely targeted by the USA as a terrorist, goes to work for a "sleep factory", where he remotely operates robots for American corporations.Sleep Dealer is a return to classic cyperpunk, like the early novels of William Gibson. It's a very believable world, full of near-future tech that's both intriguing and disheartening. Like Gibson's leftist criticism back in the 1980s, it examines globalism, isolationism, nationalism, and imperialism. It never becomes anti-American, but it probably will offend some conservative Americans. Some of the ideas are really great, and I liked how the movie played with current technological and political trends. Hopefully, if the movie were made today, it'd be a little more optimistic, but I kind of doubt it.The biggest problem I had with Sleep Dealer was that it was so overt and explicit about its themes. Perhaps the director thought that these themes were too important to be coy about them. Regardless, it came across as a bit unsubtle and preachy. If you agree with the premises, you'll probably be pretty forgiving. Unfortunately, the acting isn't all that great, though it's good enough for a low budget, genre film. The special effects are a bit iffy, as well, but most people probably aren't expecting Avatar.As long as you're willing to overlook some faults, this is an enjoyable and socially conscious science fiction movie that anyone can enjoy, regardless of their nationality.

Under a currently established World Bank system, credit or loans will not be issued to Third World countries and others unless they agree to allow foreign investors access to privatize their water supply. It required mass demonstrations in Bolivia to force out a subsidiary of Bechtel that had privatized the water supply, increased costs three-fold initially, dispensed with system upkeep, and left a quarter of the rural homes without access to water.So, the premise of this film starts with something real and not futuristic. Soldiers/mercenaries? guard the water and Mexican citizens must pay exorbitant rates for it.We then meet Memo (Luis Fernando Peña), a young man who hacks into the wrong system (like Matthew Broderick in War Games) and finds himself in big trouble.When he runs off to a border town, he finds a job with the Sleep Dealers; a world where migrant workers' nervous systems are plugged into a global network, allowing them to do menial jobs in the U.S. for low wages but without setting foot in the United States, and a girl (Leonor Varela).New director Alex Rivera creates a chilling scenario that is an indictment of global capitalism and a look at the lost promises of the Internet.Most sci-fi buffs will find the film excruciatingly slow, but it provides much room for though about exploitation and capitalism.

This is a better sci-fi than "Surrogates." The same weekend (June 20-21) that I saw Duncan Jones' "Moon", I was fortunate to catch the indie sci-fi "Sleep Dealer," an outstanding debut film by Alex Rivera, who also co-wrote the script. The movie poster image was impressive: a human body with several wired plug-in nodes (somehow it gave a chilling memory of "Maria Full of Grace" 2004, where Maria the carrier consumed pellets into her body - similar body for sale aspect). It briefly reminds me of William Gibson's "Johnny Mnemonic" (1995, with Keanu Reeves and Ice-T).A presumably simple story yet it will absorb you to attentively follow the plot and be anxious about what will happen next. The script is full of global diversity awareness and touching on current social issues like outsourcing by corporations, 'cheap labor' and satellite communications, technological connections by downloading - "nodes plug-in's for remote work order." In the center of it all, a family-related human drama is not forgotten - providing possible clues to story threads and a pensive ending (depending on how you view it, of course). No wonder Rivera won the screen writing award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, besides winning the feature film prize.Director Rivera made a point to include both English and Spanish credit titles with each name listed at the end credit roll - appreciate his inclusiveness and being cognizant of diverse and global sensibility in "Sleep Dealer." At the opening credits, noted interesting production company names: "Likely Story" (indeed!) and "This is That" Productions. Check out the official web site 'sleepdealer.com' for more on this gem of a sci-fi.See "Surrogates" unless you're a 'die hard' Bruce Willis fan. See "District 9" for aliens premise and glorious sci-fi action (and storyline with a twist). But do not miss "Moon" and "Sleep Dealer" - remarkable sci-fi films released this year of 2009, both directorial debut features from two talented and promising filmmakers: Duncan Jones and Alex Rivera respectively.