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The unemployed construction worker George Nada (Roddy Piper) drifts to Los Angeles and finds a job. Nada is a man that believes on the American Dream and expects to have his big chance someday. He befriends the worker Frank Armitage (Keith David) that is a conformist and invites Nada to camp in the homeless settlement where he lives. Nada observes that the television has weird interferences from a pirate transmission of a man that belongs to an underground movement and notes a strange movement of people in the church on the other side of the settlement.
Nada sneaks around the church and finds a box with pairs of sunglasses. When he wears the glasses, he discovers that the average people is being dominated and subdue by subliminal messages and several persons are aliens indeed. Further, the elites are corroborating with the invaders, receiving financial support in return. Nada forces Frank to wear the sunglasses and together they seek other humans aware of the situation to organize a resistance against the powerful aliens from Andromeda and their associates.
"They Live" is a B-movie by John Carpenter and one of his best films. Years before the red-pill of "Matrix", a simple worker finds the real world wearing a pair of very special sunglasses. Nada learns that the fight of classes in the American society is supported by aliens, in a sharp social and political critic to the neo-liberalism of Ronald Reagan that affected the lower classes.
I do not recall how many times I have watched this film. I am a big fan of John Carpenter and in my opinion, this great director, writer and musician deserves an Oscar for his magnificent filmography. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Eles Vivem" ("They Live")
Note: On 15 July 2013, I saw this movie again on DVD.
On 22 August 2015, I saw this film again.
score 8/10
claudio_carvalho 21 May 2011
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2431753/ |
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