Leonor Varela,
Jacob Vargas,
Luis Fernando Pena,
Giovanna Zacarías,
Marius Biegai
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Mexico. The near future. Memo Cruz has always dreamed of leaving his tiny village and heading north. But, when he is ultimately forced to leave, Memo finds a future so bizarre--border walls, shantytow...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 8, 2009
Stats: 1,237 reviews
Surprisingly good sci-fi drama that studies how technology could change society, or actually how society probably won't change. It's a story of migrants and their plight for a better life. Its also a story about connecting to the world at large and how technology might never be ...( read more)
Saw this at a screening at my school with the director introducing the film. A well-told, connected, story that illustrates a disturbing future, which I hope we are not really headed towards,
Superbly done film that works as both a sci-fi flick and a social commentary.
In the future, companies control the water and everyone must pay asinine prices to get any, and there's a group of terrioists fightimg against this, and there are drone controllers who, through being hooked up to a computer, control a drone and attack the hideouts of the terriois...( read more)
Science fiction in the best and truest sense of the term, and with not one alien, spaceship or laser in sight. Very well directed, photographed and acted. It has a lot to say about imperialism, corporate power, and American attitudes toward "guest workers" but says it all without...( read more)
A thought-provoking, intriguing mix of rural, impoverished Mexico and futuristic hi-tech. Obviously shot on a shoestring budget, not all of the acting and effects are totally convincing, but the dreamlike (dare I say Blade Runner-ish?) cinematography and the interesting themes ma...( read more)
If it was good I would have heard of it. I will apologise if it appears in the UK next year.
Culminates in an unconvincing finale whose hopefulness seems not only fanciful but, when viewed on the story's own terms, woefully short-sighted. full review
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