Tô querendo muito assistir a esse Sleep Dealer. Mais do que o filme em si, tô gostando das conversas com o diretor, Alex Rivera. Boa entrevista aqui, que tem a ver com futuros imaginários e com uma conversa que o William Gibson tava levando no twitter, elogiando a 'atemporalidade' e questionando as pessoas que tentam sempre estar in.
But, you know, a lot of times we use the word "futuristic" to describe things that are kind of explosions of capital, like skyscrapers or futuristic cities. We do not think of a cornfield as futuristic, even though that has as much to do with the future as does the shimmering skyscraper.
MARK ENGLER: In what sense?
ALEX RIVERA: In the sense that we all need to eat. In the sense that the ancient cornfields in Oaxaca are the places that replenish the genetic supply of corn that feeds the world. Those fields are the future of the food supply.
For every futuristic skyscraper, there's a mine someplace where the ore used to build that structure was taken out of the ground. That mine is just as futuristic as the skyscraper. So, I think Sleep Dealer puts forward this vision of the future that connects the dots, a vision that says that the wealth of the North comes from somewhere. It tries to look at development and futurism from this split point of view — to look at the fact that these fantasies of what the future will be in the North must always be creating a second, nightmare reality somewhere in the South. That these things are tied together.
