Live: Subtitle They

In his 1988 cult classic They Live , director John Carpenter uses a science-fiction lens to strip away the glossy veneer of 1980s prosperity, revealing a chilling architecture of social control and economic exploitation. Through the eyes of a nameless drifter, Nada, Carpenter suggests that the structures of power—specifically unrestrained capitalism and consumerism—rely on a manufactured "blindness" of the working class. The Illusion of Choice