They Live! by John Carpenter
What is the message? Educate, agitate, and organize.
To Whom is this message being volleyed? The film is directed to all / anyone who can see & hear, or have the film translated to them, so that the auditory & visual messages are linked with the consumerist culture of corporate capitalism, inner city strife (of blighted locales, mostly), and some semblance of the middle-class notion of these class divisions -- most luminously mobilized on a salient & visceral trajectory when a capitalist / consumerist society is economically downtrodden.
Why this sort of medium for the message? To make an exposition of the matters most relevant to the cumulative resolve therein.
Explication: THEY LIVE WE SLEEP
Some of the strongest support, in my lasting opinion, is the connotative values at work in the otherwise abrasivity of everything from the characters and the actors who portray them to the ways in which they are introduced and react to the revealing of materialized linguistic, behavioral suggestiveness being placed out for mass consumption and the manipulatory, divisive nature of those suggestions as a form of coercive and tactical maneuvering.
The glasses working as a vessel for retinal navigation through a lesser apparent landscape cause them to act in effect as somewhat of a drug, and so states Roddy Piper's character somewhere in the dialogue of the film which evolves as something of a metabolized metaphor.
I found "They" to be the most acrobatic term throughout the film, translating into the real world quite seamlessly and accurate considering the help of few assimilations w/the fantastic or supernatural varieties -- paranoia not being one of them.
"Interference" is used in the film briefly(as an explicit term) and coins the static & interceptive presences created by the dynamics of the two forces who create, observe, and perpetuate the existence of this in its identifiable form -- regardless to any paranoic flecking -- to a finite, regulatory station; similar to the way in which the device of interference may have been established to deceive any resistors from discovering, believing or exposing the intentions of any said perpetrators of deliberate injustices which may involve society in mass.
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