Magic Sunglasses!

You know the movie They Live?

No?

Ok, without spending too much time on it, it is a movie (starring a wrestler as an actor, so you know it's great acting) about a man who finds that the world he lives in has been taken over by aliens. And he puts on these sunglasses and normal people now look like these skeletal aliens, and billboards/advertisements turn into black and white messages that say "OBEY!" and other generic threats.

It's a bit ridiculous and the people who live in this world are completely unphased by the alien takeover that has already ocurred (been occuring?) since they don't have magic sunglasses and can't see that the aliens took over. Which of course results in this wrestler-actor just yelling at people throughout the movie trying to convince them that there are aliens and weird signs, to which people really don't care. Also, the aliens are not threatening. If you live in a normal world populated by aliens, but they aren't threatening and nothing has changed, then why make a big stink? It is like there's some underlying message about race or something in there, but the writers of this movie didn't even realize it.

Speaking of stink, there is a great line where the lead character is wearing his magic sunglasses and sees an alien woman put on lipstick in a mirror. He shouts at her "IT´S LIKE PUTTING PERFUME ON A PIG!" Of course, the other surrounding people are just like "Dude, wtf?" Which is basically like the entire movie.

So, where am I going with this, you might ask?

I saw one of those banner ads today that has a splotchy-skinned girl magically airbrushed to a smooth-skinned beauty with some "photo software" that I am sure is just a virus when you click on the banner ad.

It got me into thinking about They Live for some reason, because I think I once read something about a girl who was like "If only people could see the airbrushed me all the time!"

What if the They Live glasses really existed, and we all wore them all the time? Then we could use them for the opposite effect, allowing for the entire world to see airbrushed, abnormally perfect versions of ourselves! If someone dared take them off, they might see people's pimples or other "imperfections." So, of course, no one would ever take them off.


Just thinking out loud.