Sleep Dealer [Blu-ray] [Spanish]

Starring: Guillermo Rios, Andaluz Russell, Jacob Vargas, et al.

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• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: Spanish
• UPC: 812034010982
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Maya Home Ent
• Director: Alex Rivera
• Starring: Guillermo Rios, Andaluz Russell, Jacob Vargas, Jorge Zepeda, Leonor Varela, Luis Fernando Peña, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Giovanna Zacarias, Norma Pablo, Meztli Adamina
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: multiple_formats
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Politics disguised as sci-fi.

Memo (Luis Fernando Peña) wants to escape his hard agricultural life caused by the US damming of their river. He does so with the aid of a radio interceptor. Little did he know that his hobby would lead to an unusual interaction and unique communication of three lives: Memo, Rudy (Jacob Vargas), and Luz (Leonor Varela). One scene that I can relate to is where Memo and Luz are at the edge of a river, discussing life with his head in her lap. Even though this takes place in Mexico, I spent some time with my girl in a similar riverbed (Los Angeles) where it crosses with the San Jacinto River near a small park named Ford. Therefore, this had a more personal flair for me. This is not a simple movie, as not only are stories overlapping, but also the technology needed to tell the story is a collage of many sci-fi movies from before. I was interested in the main characters as a story; however, according to the voice-over, it is more of a political movement using technology against itself. They bend the system. You will find a message for everyone on different levels. I think you will get the Memo. You need to see the two DVD extras, “Before the Making of Sleep Dealer,” which is almost a mini tutorial on how to build and market a movie, and the voice-over (in English), which tells all the nitty-gritty details of the movie, including a more intricate use of resources. We learn that the war strike scenes are real footage from the net, as are many of the other scenes, and some verbiage is modeled on Apache helicopter kill communications from YouTube.