The They Live

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The They Live
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John Nada is a man without job who walks around a big American city trying to find something to do. He finally finds a job as a worker and a place to spend the nights, but one day something terrible happens to him. John discovers a pair of sun-glasses through which he can see the true face of people. Many persons in this city are in fact aliens (from the Andromeda) and most of them are important members of our society. They keep humans in ignorance and they rule our world as they like. Nada must find the rest of the men that know what's happening (those who made the strange sun-glasses) and join them in the fight against the aliens.
The unemployed construction worker George Nada 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 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 moving 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.
The scene where Nada tries out the sunglasses is really the best part and actually the only good part of this movie. All the rest of it in front and in the back is just a very badly made story full of gaping plot holes and a very unoriginal message, even for that time. I had expectations of at least an amusing movie form people saying that this movie was so clever and deep. But the story felt like a severe insult to my intelligence. The main character is a total Gary Sue. He is the only one to spot out the obvious things that are supposed to be hidden from every one else and he is everywhere at the exact right time for important things to happen and everybody just knows how important he is the moment they see him. Also there is a quite pointless and unsympathetic fight scene that lasted for half an hour with the "very deep and educational" message that you are allowed to bully people to make them see things your way.
A movie that starts out a bit slow, peaks as Nada discovers the illusion filtering sunglasses, and kinda drags a bit at the end. The draggy end is inevitable as the movie&#39;s core message was delivered during Nada&#39;s first walk down the street with the glasses on. The rest of the movie is anticlimactic. A pretty good job by Roddy Piper. <br/><br/>The technical aspects and various merits of this film have been explored by others. I mostly wanted to point out that on 1/31/2006, the Sci-Fi channel aired this classic directly opposite George Bush&#39;s state of the union address! Many kudos to the brave closet subversive in the Sci-Fi Channel programming department. I&#39;m sure if their upper management had a clue, that particular programming item would have been overridden, immediately.
Live dies around the time Carpenter allows 10 minutes of gratuitous Piper-David eye-gouging, an apparent bone to wrestling fans. Forget the amusing premise; a full crate of magic glasses couldn't make this a bearable movie. [7 Nov 1988]
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