slag, the dispossessed and those inhabitants of the underworld that has built the class struggle in place since the dawn of humanity, they become responsible for awakening to the modern society They Live, essential film in the filmography of the legendary John Carpenter, who along with David Cronenberg and Wes Craven was a founding pillar American school of modern terror. terror is not exactly what is transmitted in this film, in which Carpenter choose to replace the screams, murder and gore, and vibrant action sequences, a fast and constant humor and clever social critique that follows the short story Eight O'Clock in the Morning , written by Ray Nelson and Carpenter adapted in a simple but flawless script.
The premise of the story presents us with coincidences that lead to a construction worker, covered with muscles but without any preparation, to discover that the world is actually controlled by a horrific aliens, which we see as normal human beings because they control our minds with a series of waves emanating from television sets.
is not the first time you push into television as an evil means of social control in a script, Cronenberg made a few years before had raised similar theories with Videodrome , however the script of They Live not stay in the television appearance, but that goes against all social conventions to which we voluntarily submitted, and that is through the superficial desires of the citizens that the nasty invaders gained control their human.
The main character, played by professional wrestler Roddy Piper with its obvious shortcomings histrionics, he discovers a box full of lenses that allow you to see the real world without blocking your brain waves and can detect with this evil aliens and discovering a small human guerrilla who designed the lenses and attempts to awaken humanity.
Many action films in recent years deeply envy the extraordinary pace of Carpenter's film, with its huge budget constraints achieves a superb setting, provides the story of an exemplary fluid builds scenes absolutely perfect, as the endless fight the alley or the sequence in which the world begins to unfold in all its manipulative glory through sunglasses.
Set with a great soundtrack composed by Carpenter himself, They Live is a film which was not expecting much and I was completely surprised by its freshness and the simple but successful philosophical, placed alongside the classic film style sobering but business as Dawn of the Dead George A. Romero.
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