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Show all (5)Mexico. The near future. Memo Cruz has always dreamed of leaving his tiny village and heading north. But, when he is ultimately forced to leave, Memo finds a future so bizarre--border walls, shantytowns, hi-tech factories, remote control drones and aqua-terrorists--that it looks a lot like today.
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In "Sleep Dealer," people can upload their memories and sell them on a website. Mexican day laborers work in California at night - from Tijuana. And a popular TV show called "Drones!" features military aircraft annihilating any perceived threat to US national security. The movie's sense of science fiction dovetails with its sense of satire and paranoia. Directed, edited, and co-written by first-timer Alex Rivera, "Sleep Dealer" imagines a world of vanished privacy and virtual everything. The mood is lonely, the survival climate high risk. (Full review)