Essay6 question 2

The way Sleep Dealers and the matrix have connections is they both take place in the future in which technology is at its high point. In the film “the matrix” Neo is computer hacker who finds out about the matrix through stealing information. He is contacted through his computer by Morpheus, which he thinks is a dream. He is told to follow the white rabbit in which he does meeting trinity wanting to know more. In comparison to the matrix, Memo is an amateur hacker who happens to come across transactions through radio. One day he hears vital information he wasn’t supposed to know causing a military aircraft seeking the so called “terrorist”. As a result he father is killed leaving him to the responsibilities as bread winner. He goes to the city Tijuana to find work as a nodes worker. In both movies there is a virtual connection. Neo took the red pill to reveal the truth in which he is generated by computer programs, as well as Memo went through the process of getting nodes to become virtually connected; permitting him to be a part of the machinery network. Body nodes are a big part of both movies as well. They are what make the movie a cyborg movie. In the matrix body nodes were the way to connect to the matrix and outer world. It provided information, the role it acted as was the power source, it held everything together. In the movie sleep dealers body nodes were used as a source of income and a way of living. Labor work was done but virtually, the only way to work in the United States was virtually because there was a Mexico/ United States block. The difference between the two movies is in “sleep dealers” in the end you are steal a slave or labor worker whatever way you look at it. Memo left his small town where they were poverty stricken to a larger city where poverty still existed. The only difference is they were virtually plugged in as labor workers. Living might have been a little more comfortably virtually but they were killing their bodies physically causing exhaustion from being connected for long periods of time. In “the matrix” Neo went from having a good life, carrying on a 9 to 5 job opting to choose knowing the “truth” and settled for living on a ship, where you are virtually plugged in. What is ironic about the situation is Morpheus states that Neo was living as a prisoner in the matrix, but once he knows the truth his living arrangement is of a slave. They don’t live in luxury or eat food appropriate to normal health standards. The main idea of the matrix was finding “the one” which Neo goes through various ordeals to find the he indeed is the one. With Memo he fulfills his dreams of going to the city, but he discovers the truth about the world that he lives in is really no different from the world he left. What I portrayed from rural verse urban life in sleep dealers is in rural life everything is in small settings life is easy going. They may not have a lot but they make the best of what’s around them. In the city, urban life was upbeat; they had clubs bright lights everything was fast pace. There were illegal things done, a place of sin. Within both movies “the matrix” as well as “sleep dealers” it dealt with knowing the real and unreal, portrayal with humanity and machinery, and knowing the truth.