Blog 12

After watching the movie I can notice a lot of connections and differences between Sleep Dealer and The Matrix. One big similarity in both movies is that the humans were plugged into the virtual world. In Sleep dealer like in Matrix exist two worlds the real world and the dream world. In Sleep Dealer the real world is Mexico, rural area and a tough place to live and the virtual world is USA, very urban area. Humans had to leave their small villages and go to the city Tijauana where the technology was growing more and more. The humans choose to get nodes on their arms and necks, plug wires to get connected and start working in the virtual world. The human in Matrix didn’t have choice and they lived their whole life in the dream world, for a difference the humans in Sleep Dealer had a choice to plug in, and they got connected to the virtual world so they can work and support their families. Most of the people were getting plugged in because they wanted to escape their hard life like Memo who thought that on the other side life is much better. But when he got connected to the other side he realized that is not what he wanted, to be in a place where you just work and you cannot experience anything. While the girl was putting nodes on Memo’s bogy she said to him that sometimes you control the machine but sometimes the machine controls you. Just like in Matrix were the humans first controlled the machines but later the humans were controlled by the machines, so they wanted to fight against them and set free. The scenes were on area in Mexico, the actors were Latino and they were talking Spanish so this marks the movie as “particularly Latino”. At the end of this movie Memo makes a choice, leaves the city, the virtual world and goes back to his real world and continues to work hard and have a real life.