description: cyber plugin, mexican, teenager, brother, father, hacker for beginners, father killed, moving from village to city, virtual construction worker, woman, writer, love/drama
(Geoffrey): (rating 7)
In the near future, a teenager in Mexico is busy with picking up radio transmissions. At some points he picks up a transmission from the US, which is intercepted by a soldier. They think it is a terrorist spying and send an aircraft to that place to destroy it. The teenager is not home at that time, but his father is and is killed by the aircraft (remotly controled).
since there is little left to do over there, the teenager decides to take the big step and goes to the big city to find a job. He does that and so can pay his family. In the meantime, he meets a beautiful woman, a writer, who more or less falls for him. She uses his meeting to write a new novel for selling. Someone notices the story and is prepared to pay more for the rest.
Overal the story is nice. It takes place in Mexico and has some nice settings in the border. The movie has some CGI effects here and there which look a little bit cheap, but still watchable. You see some Matrix vibes in here as well, but not overdone. Acting is good and I really got the feeling watching a Mexican movie. Sad thing to say is that there is lots of people being pore in the future as well, which is nicely shot.
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Mexican becomes WALL-E through The Matrix and returns to his roots.
Links: AFFF / imdb
The most political / social film so far this festival. Set in North America in a nearby future, the film paints a picture of a hypothetical society where workers have implants (nodes) and do their work in factories (sleep dealers) using remote presence. The film follows a Mexican young man who leaves the no-future countryside in search for a way to support his family, after his father has died indirectly because of him.
Several social issues are interwoven in the narrative: exploitation of workers, virtualization of the workforce, water scarcity, border patrol, privacy and the exploitation of memories. Ambitious but still quite believable on such a limited budget. Written, produced, directed AND edited by the same guy, Alex Rivera.
Rating: 8
Links: AFFF / imdb
The most political / social film so far this festival. Set in North America in a nearby future, the film paints a picture of a hypothetical society where workers have implants (nodes) and do their work in factories (sleep dealers) using remote presence. The film follows a Mexican young man who leaves the no-future countryside in search for a way to support his family, after his father has died indirectly because of him.
Several social issues are interwoven in the narrative: exploitation of workers, virtualization of the workforce, water scarcity, border patrol, privacy and the exploitation of memories. Ambitious but still quite believable on such a limited budget. Written, produced, directed AND edited by the same guy, Alex Rivera.
Rating: 8
working from a distance doesn't imply emotional detachment
Links: AFFF / imdb
"Cyberpunk" was the first thought that entered my mind. The "new Mexicans" do not physically cross the border, they remotely work through robots as nannies, gardeners or constructionworkers.
This though, is more of a plot-device than an important story-element. The story is about a boy who tries to escape his father's death, a girl who starts to like him because of the financial value he (unknowingly) offers her, then -really- likes him for (oh dear) who he is, and finally a soldier who tries to find redemption for killing the boy's father.
No fast-paced music, no splurging of cyberhizzle, the film is fairly modest for her kind and that suits her.
Rating: 8
Links: AFFF / imdb
"Cyberpunk" was the first thought that entered my mind. The "new Mexicans" do not physically cross the border, they remotely work through robots as nannies, gardeners or constructionworkers.
This though, is more of a plot-device than an important story-element. The story is about a boy who tries to escape his father's death, a girl who starts to like him because of the financial value he (unknowingly) offers her, then -really- likes him for (oh dear) who he is, and finally a soldier who tries to find redemption for killing the boy's father.
No fast-paced music, no splurging of cyberhizzle, the film is fairly modest for her kind and that suits her.
Rating: 8
This movie reminded me of the Cyberpunk novels by Willian Gibson. In a near future people can fit themselves with nodes, a sort of interface to a worldwide network. The movie follows a young man who accidently causes the death of his father. He lives in the countryside and after his father's death he moves to Tijuana, a US border town in Mexico. There he fits himself a set of nodes so he can work in the US, virtually. Through the nodes and the big network he is driving a robot on a building site in San Diego. The border between the US and Mexico is firmly closed down with automated machineguns. He also meets a woman who writes a visual book made of her memories of their meetings. This book brings the young men closer to how his father died exactly.
Rating : 7
Rating : 7