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Appreciate this analysis. Surprisingly, you have no clips of They Live in your synopsis. I will include a link to what i think is one of the clearest breakdowns of the movie vs real life from O.D.D TV: https://youtu.be/6i_msSDvzbg

A good followup would be "predictive programming" , which these movies definetly include.

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Many years ago, when Facebook first came out and you could actually talk to celebrities on there, I found John Carpenter and asked him if he ever thought he'd see They Live coming true. He replied, saying that it was true when he wrote it. And imagine, this was way before 2020.

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The main actor tweeted before he died that They Live was a documentary; screenshot is near the beginning of the video. To me, the movie was very blunt what they were talking about. There is symbolism to substitute specific "illuminati/elitist/1%" names and institutions, but the gist of how it relates to society is pretty succinct IMO. ODD TV just made it even more clear.

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They Live - Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition

℗ 2009 AHI

Released on: 1989-11-21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVY30YW2du0&list=OLAK5uy_kZVcIyXDAgNMCa2MewK0bFICesoc5CQfI&ab_channel=JohnCarpenter-Topic

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One of the cool things about John Carpenter is that he wrote the music for many of the films he directed.

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