Cinema 🎥 Empire 🎥 on Instagram: "They Live (1988), directed by John Carpenter, is a sci-fi satire disguised as a B-movie. On the surface, it’s about a drifter who discovers that society is secretly controlled by aliens. But the film’s real power lies in what those aliens represent. Once the protagonist puts on a pair of sunglasses, the world reveals its true face with billboards that read OBEY, CONSUME, CONFORM. Carpenter uses this simple visual device to expose ideas about consumerism, class