BLOG 23

GROUP 1

  Rudy Ramirez, the Mexican-American drone pilot, lives in The American Dream. Memo dreams os participating in The American Dream by getting nodes and living in the city. But the brutal killing of Memo's father reveals that America/The American dream is dystopia.

  A) Describe how Sleep Dealer Represents The American Dream as a dream that is really a dystopia. How does Memo imagine it at first? How does his brother see it? How does his father see it? How is it represented on TV? How does Memo see and experience it as a worker in the cybermaquilas? What is Rudy's role in The American Dream?

  B) The end of the film has Memo and Rudy come together to create a new dream. What is it? What clues from the film do you have to support your interpretation?

ANSWERS

  A) Memo was very interested in technology devices, but after he saw his house on the TV his mind has changed. Because, he realized that his father was in there, and the TV show was given like an entertaining action show on the TV. He kept working in this factory to support his family. His brother liked the American dream and it has seemed to him very funny. Rudy was a soldier in the film and he was killing people in the movie.

  B) At the end of the movie, Memo realized that Luz was collecting some information about him for somebody, and it was Rudy. Because, Rudy was a soldier who killed Memo's farther in the movie, and he was very sorry about it. Therefore, he wanted to find Memo to apologized for killing his father.