After seeing the aliens and a flying saucer, Frank goes into hiding with Nada.ДЇrank and Nada run into Gilbert, who leads them to a meeting of the anti-alien movement. Frank and Nada get into a long and violent brawl, after which Frank is too tired to prevent Nada from putting the sunglasses on him.

Nada tries to get Frank to put on the glasses, but Frank thinks Nada is a murderer and wants nothing to do with him. The next day, Nada returns to the alleyway and retrieves the sunglasses from a garbage truck before Frank meets Nada to give him his paycheck. At Holly's home, Nada tries to get her to try on the glasses, but she knocks him out of the window and down a hill and calls the police. He kills several aliens with a shotgun and escapes by taking CableВ 54 employee Holly Thompson hostage. Nada enters a bank, where he sees that several of the employees and customers are aliens. Nada leaves but is confronted by two alien police officers. When Nada mocks an alien woman at a supermarket, she alerts other aliens via a wristwatch-like device. The glasses also reveal that many people are actually aliens with skull-like faces. Nada discovers that the sunglasses make the world appear monochrome, but also reveal subliminal messages in the media to consume, reproduce, and conform. The following day, Nada retrieves one of the boxes from the church and takes a pair of sunglasses from it, hiding the rest in a trash can. That night, the shantytown and church are destroyed in a police raid, and the hacker and preacher are beaten by riot police. Nada is discovered by the blind preacher and escapes. He sees scientific equipment and cardboard boxes inside. Nada secretly follows Gilbert and the preacher into a nearby church and discovers them meeting with a group that includes the hacker. Those watching the broadcast complain of headaches. That night, a hacker takes over television broadcasts, claiming that scientists have discovered signals that are enslaving the population and keeping them in a dream-like state, and that the only way to stop it is to shut off the signal at its source.

Nada finds employment at a construction site and befriends coworker Frank, who invites him to live in a shanty town soup kitchen led by a man named Gilbert. While out on the street, he sees a street preacher warning that 'they' have recruited the rich and powerful to control humanity. The film has also entered popular culture, and notably had a lasting effect on street art (particularly that of Shepard Fairey), while its nearly six-minute alley brawl between the protagonists has made appearances on all-time lists for best fight scenes.ДЄ homeless drifter-credited as 'Nada'-comes to Los Angeles in search of a job. It is now regarded by many as a largely underrated work. It initially received negative reviews from critics, who lambasted its social commentary, writing, and acting however, like Carpenter's other films, it later gained a cult following and experienced a significantly more favorable critical reception. The film was a minor success at the time of its release, debuting #1 at the North American box office. Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster, the film follows an unnamed drifter who discovers through special sunglasses that the ruling class are aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to consume, breed, and conform to the status quo via subliminal messages in mass media. Tonka chuck fire truck.They Live is a 1988 American science fiction action film written and directed by John Carpenter, based on the 1963 short story 'Eight O'Clock in the Morning' by Ray Nelson.

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