The Sleep Dealer is a Mexican movie which came out to theaters in 2008, years after The Matrix or The Truman Show. The story is basically about a young Mexican guy named Memo, who lived in a farm with his family until a tragedy broke his heart and led him to the "big city:, where he entered the wired world. There are similar things we can find in all of those movies such as the power of virtual technology, the drawing of the possible future or the return of the human-cyber slavery, which is , in my opinion will came sooner as we think.
In the Sleep Dealer the focus is more on the human racism than the fight between machines and the people. Those individuals who belongs to the lower class had to go and "got wired", sacrifice their body and work very hard to make their living. This way the corporate world, just as usual, can have cheap workforce to do those jobs that neither other people not able to do nor they don't want to do. The middle class can afford to stay away from those kind of work. The pilot character, who came with a good family background made his parents very proud by that action we simply call; killing. Just because you are on computerized killing machine which executes your commands, you are not different than those soldiers on the actual battlefield.
In the Matrix, machines overrule the world, but the humans have no idea about that, only the "chosen ones" have the chance to escape from the digital world and try to awake the others. The main character was pulled off from the virtuality into the reality. That was his destiny and he made that choice by himself to enter into another dimensions.
The Truman Show, as mentioned before has similarity to these films. However, there is a big difference that we need to look at. Technology and the virtual truth is certainly rules the movie, but there is a leading "hero" who is only entertain the viewers, even if he has no clue about that .His life is an open book for everyone, everything is a set-up, well-organized production. At least there is not too much psychical affliction in his life. On the other side, he goes through a lot of emotional stress as well.
In the Sleep Dealer the focus is more on the human racism than the fight between machines and the people. Those individuals who belongs to the lower class had to go and "got wired", sacrifice their body and work very hard to make their living. This way the corporate world, just as usual, can have cheap workforce to do those jobs that neither other people not able to do nor they don't want to do. The middle class can afford to stay away from those kind of work. The pilot character, who came with a good family background made his parents very proud by that action we simply call; killing. Just because you are on computerized killing machine which executes your commands, you are not different than those soldiers on the actual battlefield.
In the Matrix, machines overrule the world, but the humans have no idea about that, only the "chosen ones" have the chance to escape from the digital world and try to awake the others. The main character was pulled off from the virtuality into the reality. That was his destiny and he made that choice by himself to enter into another dimensions.
The Truman Show, as mentioned before has similarity to these films. However, there is a big difference that we need to look at. Technology and the virtual truth is certainly rules the movie, but there is a leading "hero" who is only entertain the viewers, even if he has no clue about that .His life is an open book for everyone, everything is a set-up, well-organized production. At least there is not too much psychical affliction in his life. On the other side, he goes through a lot of emotional stress as well.
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