
His unbridled optimism is squelched when he finds a pair of special sunglasses, which allow him to see the world as it really is. Piper is an optimist, however, and believes if he puts in his time, good things will happen to him.

Society, it seems, has slowly been taking a turn during these Reagan years, as the destitute far outnumber the comfortable. He befriends super badass Keith David ( The Thing) and is introduced to his world of communal living. Piper plays John Nada, a mulletted drifter, who finds himself looking for construction work in 1980s Los Angeles. This picture deserves mention alongside other Carpenter classics such as Halloween, The Thing, Escape From New York, and Big Trouble in Little China. Welcome to the real world.It's up to Rowdy Roddy Piper to save the world in John Carpenter's most unheralded classic, They Live.

They Live You Sleep where will your consciousness take you when the sleep is washed from your eyes. This is the battle of self-awareness and one mans struggle with a reality check that has these alien beings staging war against the up-rising and rebellious armies from the gutters and streets. It is through this thought control that the aliens have this world tied up and neatly packaged for its own manipulative uses, to further themselves at the expense of the meek, mild and the lowly sufferers of a job less and hungry world. With subliminal messages as "OBEY", "CONFORM", "MARRY AND REPRODUCE", "CONSUME", "WATCH TELEVISION" and "SLEEP". With the help of a pair of sunglasses, that shows the world as it really is, not in color, but a black and white parallel world that the sub-conscious has chosen to ignore. This is the story of an everyman, a no one, a Nada who stumbles upon their secret, via an underground movement, whose mission is to sabotage their plans and awaken the world to its sinister plans. Multicultural in more forms than anticipated, are the leading and upwardly mobile alien race who have gelled themselves into the Human psyche and exploited it to its full potential.

John Carpenter's slow and deliberate immersion of the daunting and worrying fable of the corrupt, deceiving and indifferent economic, social and political society, that has wrapped itself around its people and who in turn have blindly accepted their fate.
