Literally just a documentary

An unexpected masterpiece of comedy disguised as a sci-fi dystopian horror. Bit of a slow set-up, but once the hook sets in motion, it becomes a roller coaster ride to the very end. As well as being a clever satire of the, “one man against the entire system”, trope, completely throwing out the window all the clichés you’d see in a film of this sort, They Live, in my eyes, is one of the more hard-hitting and brutal dystopian depictions (if dystopian is what you can even call it) because it is still so absolutely grounded in modern everyday life, even with its sci-fi component which, honestly, I wouldn’t even be shocked or surprised at all if the society in this film were truly reality. More so than 1984 or Brazil. Literally just a documentary.