Film Analysis: The Sleep Dealer
Media Analysis
Readings and films provided throughout the course have featured an array of ideas, topics, and subtopics. Each film and reading served to guide towards overall themes. Readings and films from modules also worked in an interconnected way. Although each module uncovered a different topic, modules could still be connected to each other in many ways. Dreams Deported: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation by UCLA Student Publication and The Sleep Dealer directed by Alex Rivera can be found in module 4 of our lectures. This reading and film in particular provided tremendous links, arguments, storylines, and an array of information.
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The film also works to portray individuals lives in contrast to the American Dream. Although Memo Cruz, the films main character, is not an immigrant himself as we would classify by today’s standards, he yearns of the American Dream. He works as an American construction robot in California. The film also follows Rudy Ramirez, an immigrant American working in the military as a fighter plane pilot. Although he has everything that Memo would want, he still finds himself unhappy. It also showed the American Dream of many Americans while Memo was given a tour of the factory. The film mentioned something along the line of “They had what they wanted, the workers without the people” (Sleep Dealer). This film goes to show not only the great lengths that immigrants and other will go through to achieve their dreams, but also that the American Dream doesn’t always result to be what you wished. This idea itself connects very closely to the reading Dreams Deported: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation. Many of the stories follow parents, students, and youth activists whose American Dream did not turn out as they would have wanted. Many of them were deported or had family members who faced deportation which was definitely not part of their …show more content…
Not only does this information matter in education but, it also matters in society. The film portrays the American Dream through futuristic eyes. This not only shows the change in society but, it also shows what remains the same in society. It shows that although time doesn’t stand still, the hope for the American Dream does for individuals all over the world. It also shows the lengths that everyday people choose to go through to achieve their dream or something remotely close to it. The reading does the same through the personal experience. It showcases each person’s individual American Dream, why their dream is what it is, and how they go about achieving it. What I have learned from this film and reading will help further my compassion, respect, and understanding for other immigrants in the
Readings and films provided throughout the course have featured an array of ideas, topics, and subtopics. Each film and reading served to guide towards overall themes. Readings and films from modules also worked in an interconnected way. Although each module uncovered a different topic, modules could still be connected to each other in many ways. Dreams Deported: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation by UCLA Student Publication and The Sleep Dealer directed by Alex Rivera can be found in module 4 of our lectures. This reading and film in particular provided tremendous links, arguments, storylines, and an array of information.
Dreams Deported: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation by UCLA Student Publication …show more content…
The film also works to portray individuals lives in contrast to the American Dream. Although Memo Cruz, the films main character, is not an immigrant himself as we would classify by today’s standards, he yearns of the American Dream. He works as an American construction robot in California. The film also follows Rudy Ramirez, an immigrant American working in the military as a fighter plane pilot. Although he has everything that Memo would want, he still finds himself unhappy. It also showed the American Dream of many Americans while Memo was given a tour of the factory. The film mentioned something along the line of “They had what they wanted, the workers without the people” (Sleep Dealer). This film goes to show not only the great lengths that immigrants and other will go through to achieve their dreams, but also that the American Dream doesn’t always result to be what you wished. This idea itself connects very closely to the reading Dreams Deported: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation. Many of the stories follow parents, students, and youth activists whose American Dream did not turn out as they would have wanted. Many of them were deported or had family members who faced deportation which was definitely not part of their …show more content…
Not only does this information matter in education but, it also matters in society. The film portrays the American Dream through futuristic eyes. This not only shows the change in society but, it also shows what remains the same in society. It shows that although time doesn’t stand still, the hope for the American Dream does for individuals all over the world. It also shows the lengths that everyday people choose to go through to achieve their dream or something remotely close to it. The reading does the same through the personal experience. It showcases each person’s individual American Dream, why their dream is what it is, and how they go about achieving it. What I have learned from this film and reading will help further my compassion, respect, and understanding for other immigrants in the