Sleep Dealer

So, I saw this…  The plot was actually fairly interesting, but this thing was so low-budget, I just couldn’t get past the cheesy factor. As for the plot? It’s the near future… Mexicans are working in the US as “virtual” slave laborers. They hook up to an apparatus that enables them to remotely control construction & utility robots in the US. There’s a whole black market of people involved in this enterprise. At the same time, corporations have bought all the water rights across latin America, and charge insane amounts of money for access. A local farmer is mistaken for a terrorist, and blown up by a drone. The drone pilot has second thoughts about this whole episode later… and this brings him into contact with the farmer’s son, who is going the virtual labor thing out of desperation. Anyway, that all sounds pretty interesting right? I suppose it is. You just have to overlook the cheese.

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