They Live - Obey, Consume, This is your God
Clip from They Live, a classic from 1988.
John Carpenter's slow and deliberate immersion of the daunting and worrying fable of the corrupt, deceiving and indifferent economic, social and political society, that has wrapped itself around its people and who in turn have blindly accepted their fate. Multicultural in more forms than anticipated, are the leading and upwardly mobile alien race who have gelled themselves into the Human psyche and exploited it to its full potential. This is the story of an everyman, a no one, a Nada [Roddy Piper] who stumbles upon their secret, via an underground movement, whose mission is to sabotage their plans and awaken the world to its sinister plans. With the help of a pair of sunglasses, that shows the world as it really is, not in colour, but a black and white parallel world that the sub-conscious has chosen to ignore. With subliminal messages as "OBEY", "CONFORM", "MARRY AND REPRODUCE", "CONSUME", "WATCH TELEVISION" and "SLEEP". It is through this thought control that the aliens have this world tied up and neatly packaged for its own manipulative uses, to further themselves at the expense of the meek, mild and the lowly sufferers of a job less and hungry world. This is the battle of self-awareness and one mans struggle with a reality check that has these alien beings staging war against the up-rising and rebellious armies from the gutters and streets. They Live You Sleep; where will your consciousness take you when the sleep is washed from your eyes. Welcome to the real world.
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Comment by zen27 on March 15, 2009 at 6:58pm - an amazing film! it near enough represents how I look at the Illusion which They want us to believe in. with Along with The Matrix, their is an awful lot to absorb and put into practise. I would also recommend Silent Running, which made me cry!
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Comment by Tom Arnold on February 2, 2009 at 1:50pm -
This was one of my favorite movies back in the day. I have always been one who looks at the world through those glasses and spys a different world than the one we are told to see. It is funny how this movie is not far from the truth. even if there are no aliens, there are those who want the world to sleep while they take over.
Peace,
Tom
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Comment by discariot on January 25, 2009 at 1:30am - Max. You rock. Thank you.
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