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'''They Live''' is a documentary according to [[Roddy Piper]],<ref>http://archive.today/2015.01.22-125942/https://twitter.com/R_Roddy_Piper/status/383693269068050432</ref> who was an actor in it. [[John Carpenter]] during an interview once said that: "it has some sort of message to it, but basically it is an action movie".{{cn}} It could be described as an allegory for [[corruption]] and [[white collar crime]]. | '''They Live''' is a documentary according to [[Roddy Piper]],<ref>http://archive.today/2015.01.22-125942/https://twitter.com/R_Roddy_Piper/status/383693269068050432</ref> who was an actor in it. [[John Carpenter]] during an interview once said that: "it has some sort of message to it, but basically it is an action movie".{{cn}} It could be described as an allegory for [[corruption]] and [[white collar crime]]. | ||
| − | It does contain one of the longest fighting scenes in movie history between a black and a white dude, one trying to convince the other that the world he sees is real. An observation that could be made is that in real | + | It does contain one of the longest fighting scenes in movie history between a black and a white dude, one trying to convince the other that the world he sees is real. An observation that could be made is that in real life (who is trying to convince whom), it is rather the other way around. |
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Revision as of 00:08, 11 May 2021
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| Type | fiction |
| Publication date | 4 November 1988 |
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| Subjects | social control |
They Live is a documentary according to Roddy Piper,[1] who was an actor in it. John Carpenter during an interview once said that: "it has some sort of message to it, but basically it is an action movie".[citation needed] It could be described as an allegory for corruption and white collar crime.
It does contain one of the longest fighting scenes in movie history between a black and a white dude, one trying to convince the other that the world he sees is real. An observation that could be made is that in real life (who is trying to convince whom), it is rather the other way around.
| Putting on the truth sunglasses |
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