They Live

Last Place of employment? Denver. They lost 14 banks in a week ... so ....

They have recuited the rich & powerful ... Our owners. Our masters. Wake up! They are all around you.

They Live :: Full Movie - 94 minutes

Taps into the deeply submerged suspicion held by most of us that we are being manipulated and taken advantage of by the elite of American society, by our leaders, by the rich, etc. Also, we sometimes feel that we are manipulated and programmed (in a subtle way) to respect hierarchical authority ( e.g., the "OBEY" subliminal command from the movie). Perhaps the best.

The elite operate as a parasitic sub-society, living off of the lower classes. America might be said to be operated more in such a fashion (He who has the Gold makes the Rule)

They are the countries of western Europe. Obvious examples of this parasitic behavior are the "golden handshakes" and backscratching exchanged between corporate Boards of Directors & Goverment Agencies.

They Live uses the invisible alien elite as a proxy for our suspicions about how we are all being exploited by the elite of our real-life society, and how they (elite) program us to accept this exploitation. They are safe as long as they are not discovered. "They are dismatling the sleeping Middle Class, ... [their] cattle"

Aabout how the working class Americans are being exploited by the elite upper crust (illuminati), who, in the movie are aliens, but who, in the real world are a subsociety that use their collective power to exploit the rest of us.

They Live sometimes has an unintentionally comic air to it.

They Live :: The Fight

Awesome. Metaphor also.

They Live :: OBEY: We have faith in our leaders

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They Live :: OBEY: We have faith in our leaders

They are free enterprisers ... earth is their 3rd world