In the movie “Sleep Dealer”, due to the decline on the agriculture in Santa Ana del Rio Memo, the protagonist dreams to move and find work in the North of Tijuana where they have the hi-tech factories and make money in order to live the American Dream. But for Memo, this dream was a nightmare.
In Santa Ana, Memo has a homemade radio and he spend many hours listening conversations from the other side, which was from The United States so he always dreamed to cross the border and experience the American dream. In the other hand, his father reminded him that the dream was in his land where they have to dedicate time and work in the agriculture. Also his brother thought that the American dream doesn’t exist, that it is only an illusion that you can seen only on television.
One night Memo hacked the security of The United States, so the American forces persecuted and located his house through a drone remote-pilot. Memo was watching the persecution on television live and tried to escape, but they attacked his house and killed his father by Rudy Ramirez, an American soldier. After this odyssey, Memo left his town and went to work in the cybermaquilas, where people were connected to the nodes that were implanted on the human bodies and worked like robots. They never crossed the border to see and live in the city where the American dream was suppose to be.
American Dream is only a dystopia because people like Memo lives in the system where it is not true where they have to sacrifice human feelings and work like robots to be part of the system.
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