Essay 6- Sleep Dealer

During this semester we have watched many interesting films that might possibly make you look at life differently. All of these films in english101 can be compared to one another very easily. They have alot of similarities but as well as many differences. All these are really philosophy movies and let you know how many other people may think of life. In the next four paragrahps I will compare as well as contrast all three films.

All three films The Matrix, Truman Show and Sleep dealer were really good films and all three have to do with escaping there own world to try to connect to another. I notice that each film kinda starts off the same way. In The Matrix as i remember Neo works as a business guy who makes software but he also works a seperate job working as a hacker. He soons finds out about some other system called the matrix and he really tries to find out whats it all about. In the Truman show the whole story plot revolves around Truman a guy who thinks he is living a normal life. But soon after he starts noticing some weird activity where he seems to see the same people everyday so he as well is dedicarted to find out what its all about. And finally we have the most recent film Sleep Dealer where the movie takes place in Mexico where theres a family which seems to be in the middle of no where. In the faimly theres this one teen which he builts a radio to try to listen in to other places to try to disconnect from his society and to connect himself to other places.

The two films where i see the most resemblings would defiently have to be Sleep dealer and The Matrix films. One feature that both films show would have to be that in the films many people have what seem to be called nodes on there body which basically are like portals to allow them to connect to what seams to be called the dream world. Both Neo and Memo use these nodes to escape their own world and connect it another to help there real society. But the difference is neo is entering to fight evil and save the world and Memo is entering to work and make money in order to help his family.But in the films they both have different effects from being plugged in.

Sleep Dealer has a different effect while being connected then The matrix does. In the film Sleep Dealer while memo is connected energy is being drained from his body in order to power a machine anywhere around the united states, So if he runs out of energey is could either pass out of just die. And in The Matrix Film its quite different because while your connected to the matrix anything that happens to you while your in there you can actually feel it right after you have been unplugged. So if anyone was to die in the matrix you would also die in the real world. So even if these films may have alot of similarities between one another they also have some differences as well.

One thing that I also see in these films that were able to talk about is race and why they pick a specific kind of race for the film. In sleep Dealer we have a typical hispanic family where the family is in struggle and they need money or food really bad. So even in real life situations many of the older simblings leave the family to go work in the city or even another country in order to find a job and help the family with moeny. In my situation my Father had to go through the same struggle in order to help his family in mexico so he came to the U.S when he was around 16 by himself to make money and send to his mom. At the end of every film Neo, Truman and Memo all find a way to dissconnect from the what peolpe might call the Matrix and look at what the real world is like.