Miljković Matić, Jelena (2024) ANTHROPOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE FILM “THEY LIVE”. In: Film and Politics. Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade, pp. 265-284. ISBN 978-86-7419-388-4

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Abstract

This paper is an anthropological analysis of John Car�penter’s famous film They Live. The film allows many interpretations, but here we have focused on the criti�cism of a despiritualized, materialistic world in which the basic moral distinction between good and evil has been lost, which is why man, society, culture, and na�ture are on the path of degradation. The director also warned the viewers that a return to traditional religion, specifically Christianity, is the only way to escape the ruin towards which the world is headed, governed by the unbridled material interests of capitalists. Our approach here is interpretive; the method is to in�terpret the elements of the film as symbols that we read in the context appropriate for our purpose, and the goal is to present to the readers an anthropological in�terpretation of the film as a symbolic representation of the detour on which humanity strayed while developing materialistic ideas as the basis of modernist secular�ism and a way to return to the path of healthy progress.

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