Matthew Spence’s Edinburgh Film Reviews

Directed by: Alex Rivera

Sleep Dealers concentrates on a young man named, Memo Cruz, who flees his home after the U.S military mistakes his father for a terrorist. He flees to the city of Tijuana where he begins his work in a sleep factory after getting high tech nodes implanted into his body from his friend. These nodes allow you to control machines or to let them control you.

I liked this film because it had great concepts and life-like realities that could happen in the near future. I have always been a tech fan so this movie naturally intrigued me. However I was slightly disappointed when I found out that it’s aim was more towards political than the expansion of the technology aspect. I liked this movie overall and the only things I had a problem with is the robots the workers controlled and the wires that were needed to connect machines to humans. With technology now and in the future we could easily make a robot to make the building with a program and it would not need a human to control it. Also, we have wireless connections now so we would not need wires to connect machines to human minds. Overall I would recommend this film.

Trees: 3/5