Sleep Dealer is an imaginative little movie that makes the best out of a low budget to tell a futuristic story in which people sell their memories and you can be hooked up to a computer to operate a machine somewhere in another country for pay. The plot is very slow moving (no action sequences or heavy suspense) and involves a guy whose father was killed by a drone, a girl who befriends the guy in order to record and sell memories of him to another guy who turns out to be the virtual reality pilot of the drone that killed the guy's father. Without giving away what happens at the end, that's about it. The pace of Sleep Dealer is steady and hypnotic with the help of some minimalist music and tricky lighting. I watched it straight through without getting bored but it didn't excite much in me either. For all of its mind bending concepts it's really just a mood piece and perhaps a character study though the characters are sort of one dimensional. It's a pretty good weird little movie though, definitely a good start to Alex Rivera's Directoral career.
Review of Sleep Dealer
