In Sleep Dealer, directed and written by Alex Rivera (a contributor to www.altoarizona.com), the plot differs greatly from Toy Story 3. This version of hyperreality is taken to an extreme where concealing a reality becomes it main purpose, besides the impetus of capital gains. However, in this version, hyperreality separates itself from the phantasmagoria part. Similar to the traditionalist notion of hyperreality, it is constructed from ‘real’ Americans’ desire for a ‘better reality’, and uses futuristic mode of new media to define it.

The most significant hybrid form of hyperreality and new media is the machine that links  the ‘immigrant’, who can no long even attempt to become American, with a worker robot on the other side. With these circumstance presented in Sleep Dealer, the fact the immigrant work can be done outside of America pacifies the ‘real’ Americans’ alarmist tone about American-immigrants today. For Americans presented in Sleep Dealer, the labors are not even human or human like, so it still meets ‘better than reality’ and concealing criteria of hyperreality. The phantasmagoria is lost in this new definition of hyperreality, but it leads to the desensitization of harsh truths for ‘real’ Americans, performing a hyperrealistic function. This type of hyperreality still fulfills Eco’s claim that hyperreality, “not only produces illusion, but—in confessing it—stimulates the desire for it”, which allows one to engage in the reality that is made of simulacra. Finally, in support of the plausibility of this potential version of hyperreality, Sleep Dealer was envisioned and produced by Alex Rivera, an ‘other’-American—in his bio he described himself as, “a native of Peru and a native of New Jersey” (http://alexrivera.com/bio/). The bio continues to decribe the impetus for Sleep Dealer, “…Rivera synthesizes these explorations[—‘globalization of information through the internet, and the globalization of families, and communities, through mass migration’—]into a ground-breaking science-fiction feature film set on the U.S./Mexico border. Sleep Dealer takes many of the premises he [already] explored, and combines them in a personal, emotional, and surreal narrative that follows a migrant worker in the near future”. Understanding this, it is possible that he may be introducing a depiction of a new version hyperreality to deconstruct the traditional version of hyperreality that has allowed ‘real’ Americans to forget about the ‘other’ narratives of Americans in order to illuminate the swelling
force of socio-political-cultural dynamic that ‘other’-Americans who have sought to direct it and the powerful forces that oppose them, ‘real’ Americans.