He confronts him angrily, but realizes Nada's just looking for a meal and a place to sleep so he takes him to a local shantytown where most of the workers live. One of the workers, Frank Armitage (Keith David), is suspicious of Nada, especially when Nada follows him after work. After visiting an employment office that has no job opportunities for him, Nada eventually finds work on an L.A. Jacques), but he dismisses his message and leaves when he notices that the police are coming. Nada listens for some seconds to some rambling street preacher (Raymond St. The national economy seems to be in decline and the poor and middle class have been especially hard hit, living in shantytowns across the city. George Nada (Roddy Piper) is a homeless laborer who arrives in Los Angeles looking for work. They Live You Sleep where will your consciousness take you when the sleep is washed from your eyes. This is the battle of self-awareness and one mans struggle with a reality check that has these alien beings staging war against the up-rising and rebellious armies from the gutters and streets. 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 job less and hungry world. With subliminal messages as "OBEY", "CONFORM", "MARRY AND REPRODUCE", "CONSUME", "WATCH TELEVISION" and "SLEEP". With the help of a pair of sunglasses, that shows the world as it really is, not in color, but a black and white parallel world that the sub-conscious has chosen to ignore. This is the story of an everyman, a no one, a Nada who stumbles upon their secret, via an underground movement, whose mission is to sabotage their plans and awaken the world to its sinister plans. Multicultural in more forms than anticipated, are the leading and upwardly mobile alien race who have gelled themselves into the Human psyche and exploited it to its full potential. 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.
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