Blog-24

1.RACE: Sleep Dealer is obviously influenced by The Matrix (among other films). What connections do you see to The Matrix and like films? What differences do you see? What do these differences say about issues of race, for example Sleep Dealer is a Mexican-American production--What elements or themes in the film mark it as “particularly Latino” or “particularly Mexican”? What does Sleep Dealer have to say about the rural life versus urban life?
well, i do think " Sleep Dealer is obviously influenced by The Matrix(among other films)" actually means that because of the way they connect between the machines and the human bodies.in both movies,the machines and the human bodies are connected through the ports that were made by human.they don't ever connect between human bodies and the machines through the holes that we have originally from birth such as noses,ears,mouths and so on.in the Matrix,they are going to future to fight for their freedom against machines.But in Sleep Dealer,no one is going to the future and fighting for something.they are just staying in the time they currently are. they are just staying in Mexico and work by controlling the machines in Mexico and they appear as robot workers in the New York City.
i think that the race is a big role in this movie. what i mean is that i'm sure that New York City has a lot of workers and why do they still need people form Mexico to work for New York City.i think the reason is that people in the New York city became expensive workers compared to the workers from Mexico.let's say you have to pay at least $ 7 per hour to work in the New York City. you will just need to pay $ 3 or less than that to the workers from Mexico and they will be happy with that.to get them in New York to work, you will have to give them visas and will need more housing and facilities and will be more expensive than they work in Mexico.by controlling robot workers from Mexico,they can save all those money and it can run 24 hours if some workers are willing to do. it doesn't necessarily need to be Mexico.it could be any country from anywhere around the world.Urban life means that the lives of the people who are working or living or both.the urban areas usually are the big cities with high populations and high standard of living. rural life means that the lives of the people who are living in the rural areas which usually are small towns or villages.it's really hard to get good money by staying and working in the rural areas.so,people form rural areas usually come to the urban areas to work,get more money than they can get in the rural areas and support their families back home. i think it was a good film by letting us know about the hard lives of the people from rural areas and make us think about ourselves in the urban areas.