An interesting story tells the story of a man named Nada. This man will discover a pair of sunglasses that can show the world with a strange look. This terrible discovery, which lies in a pair of glasses, will show the reality of foreigners taking over the land. Nada wears his glasses and walks the streets of Los Angeles and notes that the media and the foreign government are working to keep the population under control, and that most of the social elite of foreigners are trying to dominate the world. Nada is thinking of new solutions to liberate humankind from aliens who control the mind and the earth.
Carpenter's primary objective was to make a tough action flick, which he does; it fits snugly into his filmography's subset of urban mayhem movies (alongside 'Escape from New York,' 'Assault on Precinct 13,' and parts of 'Big Trouble in Little China').
John Carpenter's They Live has cult favorite written all over it, and part of the reason is the way it regenerates the cheap, juicy, surprisingly potent sci-fi of the 1950s.
The joke is in the material; the idea itself is funny and daring. And some time soon, They Live suggests, with grim, knowing wink, the joke may be on us.
Behold the message as articulated by John Carpenter's sublime sci-fi opus: "I'm giving you a choice: Either put on these glasses, or start eating that trashcan."
