Movie Review Assignment on Gender and Gender Roles (Research Paper Sample)

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Gender and Gender Roles
Introduction
Sleep Dealer is a movie that depicts the idea of futurism in its entire plot. Also' it is a film that with a Science fiction movie, directed by Alex Rivera.
Alex Rivera, born in 1973, is based in the City of New York of New, a filmmaker and media artist for the past one and a half decades ago. His career as has been producing Latino stories for the since he began his career 15 years ago. Alex Rivera has won various awards. The most important one is that one he won at the Sundance Film Festival awards. The movie by the name Sleep Dealer is the first one he featured in.
Sleep Dealer came out in 2008. The whole plot of the film revolves around the idea of Immigration and how the technological inventions can release the immigrants from the oppressions of the foreign country. The future world we see in this movie is one that is globalized digital network connectivity that connects the brains and the minds of the citizens. Secondly, there is developed and advanced military skill and realistic labor. There are closed borders that surround this world. Therefore, an attempt by strangers to connect to the servers of the network of this world is a great risk to their lives. (Alex Rivera 2008) The setting of this movie is on the border between the United States of America and the Mexico. Memo Cruz, a young adult from Mexico. Cruz dreams of bigger and better things than the agricultural life. He makes the decision of going to Tijuana to seek some job. There is barren land in Mexico which cannot support farming. The experience makes Cruz start his journey to foreign land. He lands himself on a job. The event happens after he had made satellite disc to hack into the frequency of drones monitoring the Dell Rio water dam. U.S sees the inadvertent hack. As an act of terrorism, drones are sent to eliminate the threat. Unfortunately, Memos father pays with his life. As a U.S. pilot uses a drone to destroy Memo's satellite as well as his family's home Memos father is injured with a missile then is targeted as a terrorist and ultimately murdered by the pilot. Cruz then chooses to travel to Tijuana to work in the sleep dealer factories. The Tijuana workers to provide virtual labor for the U.S. through machines that perform the job in the U.S. Memo then sends money back to his family trying to make up for causing the death of his father. Memo meets a young woman, Luz, another struggling immigrant from Mexico who is a writer who was plugging into a program called TruNode that allows her to get paid for her memories. Luz gets paid by the pilot, Ramirez, who killed Memo's father for her memories of her encounter with Memo. Through her memories Ramirez realizes the mistake he made in killing Memo's dad. He then crosses the U.S. Mexican border to apologize and make up for killing Memo's father. Memo then hatches a plan involving Ramirez and Luz to help Ramirez. His plan includes connecting to the U.S. network using a company drone to blast the Del Rio water dam to return the ancestral water back to Memo's old village. Ramirez and Memo knew they could never go back to their native homelands. Memo decides to stay in Tijuana and starts growing beans and corn like his father did while Ramirez travels further South in Mexico.
Alex Rivera having grown up in a multi-cultural family he directs his movies based on the assumptions and ideas that cut across the immigration, race, global economy, empowerment, education, ethics, culture, and gender. Sleep Dealer addresses these issues explicitly by involving the major and the minor characters that play their roles well. The primary cause of this paper is to look at how Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2009), tackles the issues of gender. Secondly, the role played by men and women in the film about the political pattern coming from the mid1900s that combine progressive politics with the focus on the growing the economy (neoliberalism) in Latin America.
Development
Sleep Dealer depicts the roles of female and male in a society of Latin America when the characters Luz and Memo Cruz play the various role in the movie. Cruz Is a man who plays his role to depict the repercussions of Neoliberalism on the outsourcing of labor and conversely places men in the provider role which represents a return to conservative ideals a women's role in the family. Luz is a female character who struggles with her job of writing to earn a living and become independent of man. She is a hacker, coyotes. She makes use of her "node job" to create an opportunity to upload her memories online so that she can make a sale, earn a living. From what we have seen, as a result of neoliberalism, there is the tendency for the women to work in the fields that require high competence in technology. Luz uploads her memories and sell online is kind of work requires sound knowledge in the way technologies operate. In the film Sleep Dealer the lead male role and female role are used to depict the defeminization of labor, dramatizing social media and of the repercussions of neoliberal policies on the outsourcing of workforce. Luz, the female character in the film, is used to depict the dramatization of social media and how the social aspect of a women's nature removes them from this type of labor. In the film, the TruNode is the dramatization of social media which is similar to Facebook in that it makes use of memories. Luz sells her memories of her encounters with Memo in Tijuana for money to pay off her debts. The male role is used to depict dramatization of the repercussions of neoliberal policies on the outsourcing of labor. If they work too much time in these outsourcing type jobs, it could result in severe deficits to the workers. If overworked workers can suffer illnesses caused by fatigue and surges which could even cause death or blindness. Also, the film exaggerates the traditional male and female roles within the family. The man works to provide daily bread for his family he then exhausts himself to send money to his mother and brother so they can thrive. The labor feminization, due to neoliberal policies combine with the body somewhat altered the women's role in the family. Following what we saw in the Maquiladoras documentary in Mexico, this is the opposite of what is occurring in the film. Women were the ones who moved to cities in Mexico with large assembly plant called Maquiladoras that they could provide for their family, but because of the deregulation of labor due to Neoliberal reforms workers were seen as disposable and taking advantage of poor working conditions, harassment, and low pay. From the opening scene of the film the male character, Memo narrates as we see the dramatization of the outsourcing of labor. The toll takes on the work we see the repetitive movements of this combination between as she walks in the overworking important in long hours at work or loss of sight connects overworking and overwhelming poor working conditions. (Alex 2009)The beginning sequence uses these techniques of a lot of dissolves, and fades in and outs to blurry colors of bright highly saturated reds, oranges, and yellows, and cuts to Dutch tilts to portray the disorientation experienced by the workers due to being overworked. Also, the use of sounds of sharp white noises of machinery, and his heartbeat is heard throughout, and fluid movement like those in the body not only to show you the disorientation and instability experienced due to the overwhelming nature of his work and hallucinations but also the combining of body and machine with the dispersal of technology/machines and the significant sounds of the human body. Poor working conditions and overworking
GENDER
Another issue that has been presented in the film is that of Gender. The first point we note about gender is that of gender identity. The characters in the movie represent two sides of gender. Me...