We watched the 1988 schlock film again the other night, They Live.
Most definitely a satire, based on the commercialism and greed of the 80’s which was showcased just the previous year in 1987’s Wall Street, it stands up very well even today in the age of #OccupyWallStreet.
Consume, sleep. OBEY.
These messages are being delivered to us through even more communication mediums in the 2010’s; Social media, on one side is an equalizer and a great tool for grassroots movements. On the other side, it is used to make us consume and become far more complacent to the police state which has been growing faster since 9/11.
Cable which was still in it’s infancy in the 80’s is a major part of the film, the control of the masses is engineered through the signal emitting from the Cable station tower. Them good old days of over the air transmitting……