Sleep Dealer (2008)
7/10
Dramatically tragic
22 July 2018
Warning: Spoilers
A small film about what will happen in Mexico when the wall between Mexico and the United States is finished and effective: no more crossing northbound and crossing southbound is with no return trip guaranteed. You can imagine the economic catastrophe it means for the USA who do not have cheap labor next door, I mean down the street, legal or illegal, documented or not.

But the Internet-of-all-things and Artificial Intelligence can change that in a jiffy. On the Mexican side of the wall, all kinds of poor Mexicans are ready to work for American companies directly from Mexico thanks to virtual reality. They get plugged up on a machine with a certain number of nodes embedded in their arms and back and they are on a construction site in San Diego or some other building site somewhere and a robot over there is doing what you are mimicking him to do on your Mexican side.

To keep that wall up and effective society has to be militarized on both sides with soldiers and machine guns on the Mexican side and with drones on the American side. In one word, Trump's world. If it was a dystopia ten years ago, today it is no longer a dystopia. It is the real no longer virtual reality.

Then the vengeance for Memo's father's death is slightly farfetched and ineffective. When you are on the exploited side of the social wall you will always be fooled and terrorized in a way or another, and if you managed not to be terrorized by the bullies or fooled by the lying politicians, then they will just plainly shoot you down like a quibble in a bowling alley.

Sadly, not that creative.

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
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