Essay 6

During the course this semester in my class, my classmates and I watched different films. All related to each other one way or the other. We saw The Matrix directed by the Wachowski brothers, Sleep Dealer a Mexican production, and The Truman Show Peter Weir. All these films are related someway, all three the main characters feel like there something other then what they are seeing or where they are living at. Neo in The Matrix was a computer hacker which his alias name was Neo. He felt like there was something other then what he can see, he knew there was something else. Later he realizes that he was living in a false reality created by machines, he finds out that he’s the “one” who can save mankind from the machines. Everyone The Matrix would have to plug in through nodes on the back of their neck. In the Sleep Dealer Memo the main character was not put into a false reality he was raised in Mexico in a small village, he also felt like there was something other then the village he was living in. He would go off by himself to build a machine that would transmit other people’s conversation they would have on the phone to him. Just like Neo he wanted to escape and find out what’s out in the real world other then what he is used to seeing. In The Truman Show like Neo in The Matrix, Jim Carrey’s character was already born into a false reality, growing up in a false reality he realizes that there’s something other then the town he is living in. He later finds out that all the people he knows are all actors since his birth to make him believe that he’s in the real world. His life was being recorded and shown to world live like a T.V. show .
There are many connections between all three movies, in the Sleep Dealer for people to get out of their world to their job’s, they would have to plug into a machine to work. Which generated a false world through their eyes, which made them feel like if they are really working in a different city, town, country, etc. Just like in The Matrix Neo, Trinity, and the others would have to plug into a machine to do certain jobs in the “virtual world”. In The Truman Show he felt there was something else other then his world like in The Matrix and in Sleep Dealer. Neo and Memo felt the same way and all three escaped what they were seeing for years to something different. These movie are clearly have many differences. In The Truman Show Truman was filmed ever since he was born and put in fake world with actors, acting very well to make him believe he in a real world. In The Matrix Neo was born in the false world but he was never filmed since his birth. He was found later on when he became an adult to take him out of the programs the machines had him in, into to the real world with trinity and the others. In the Sleep Dealer Memo was not born in a false reality or was filmed since his birth. He had a choice to escape what he is used to seeing or used to living in. He finally leaves his village and gets nodes. Nodes are thing on his arms and neck that lets him plug into the machines.
In the films there was no big thing of race in the films. In there was no significance to race. There were no issues towards the races but there was a big difference between the races in The Matrix the races were humankind itself and the machines. And in The Truman Show the races where only black and white people ordinary people supposedly. In the Sleep Dealer all the people where all Hispanics, they were all Mexicans. Reasons because this movie was taking place in Mexico, Tijuana and around the people who lived there. This film is particularly Latino because it revolved around Mexico and its people, its music and its culture. This film said a lot about the rural life and urban life. People who live in the urban rely to much on the machines to do their jobs without ever doing something themselves, but in a rural area people must doing thing themselves like grow their own crops, raise animals, do things by hand without relying on machines.
These films really opened my mind and made me realize how people really depend on machines to do certain thing without us even realizing it. The films really gave me an understanding of rural and urban life settings.