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: Armed with the truth, Nada teams up with a fellow laborer, Frank (Keith David), to find the source of the alien signal and expose the conspiracy to the world. Iconic Elements

: The film features a legendary, six-minute-long back-alley brawl between Nada and Frank, which John Carpenter designed to show the grueling difficulty of convincing someone to see an uncomfortable truth. They Live

: The film’s visual style—black-and-white "truth" vs. colorful "illusion"—critiques the neoliberal ideologies and mass media manipulation of the 1980s. : Armed with the truth, Nada teams up

Los Angeles, Nada (Roddy Piper) finds a pair of special sunglasses that strip away the "mask" of reality. : Armed with the truth

Watch how the film's iconic sunglasses reveal the chilling reality of subliminal mind control: