Movie: They Live

They Live @ the KWCCSJ
63 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener
*no charge/pay what you want
Kitchener
7:15pm movie starts, discussion to follow (with interest)

"As the Integrated Security Unit (ISU) is already visiting friends and family of activists in Grand River region, the KW peoples summit is happy to present 'They Live' as the first film in our G8/20 series. While the movie is clearly sci-fi, the "real-world" messaging is an interesting critique of a class based system built on an apathetic consumerist culture and domination based colonial ideologies.

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. Multicultural in more forms than anticipated, are the leading and upwardly mobile alien race that have gelled themselves into the Human psyche and exploited it to its full potential.

This is the story of an everyman, a no one, a Nada [Roddy Piper] who stumbles upon their secret, via an underground movement, whose mission is to sabotage their plans and awaken the world to its sinister plans. With the help of a pair of sunglasses, that shows the world as it really is, not in colour, but a black and white parallel world that the sub-conscious has chosen to ignore. With subliminal messages as "OBEY", "CONFORM", "MARRY AND REPRODUCE", "CONSUME", "WATCH TELEVISION" and "SLEEP".

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 jobless and hungry world. This is the battle of self-awareness and one man's struggle with a reality check that has these alien beings staging war against the up-rising and rebellious armies from the gutters and streets.

They Live You Sleep; where will your consciousness take you when the sleep is washed from your eyes. Welcome to the real world."