They Live1988

I DID like this movie ROD **The Issue **I had with this movie is that while it was clearly a commentary on social inequality and how control of your life is constantly slipping into control of powerful elites it failed. Although this is true the portrayal of aliens running things is the huge failure.  The use of aliens disconnects you from the fact that the people who are doing this are exactly like you. And the recruitment of the working class to help them implies that there is an active malicious force when it truth it is passive.  Any one of our conditioners feels zero remorse because of course if it was not them it would be another.  The use of the TVs controlling you bothers me too. Every media system isn't driven by a cabal looking for control it’s driven by exploiting the psychology of human behavior to result in the uptick of viewership. The state of media is a result of optimization to the system we live in. Truth is not as profitable as opinions or controversy because those two bring the most viewership.  The way that one man finds the enemy and immediately starts shooting is wrong. People who have seen the inner workings that drove society to the exact point its in still have their delusions or even wish to participate. It’s great to fantasize that the one man infiltration can bring it down in a day but even though its symbolism it could’ve been done better. Overall a sophisticated opinion that was simply misguided by the portrayal of the conditioner as a centralized power not a child of the system that everyone has allowed to grow.