Nostalgic Itch

I've seen Once Upon A Time In Hollywood a couple of times now and I'm sure I missed plenty of Easter eggs. It got me thinking about the influence that movies and television had on my childhood and those thoughts eventually brought me back to an old itch.

I thought it had been scratched back in 1988 with the movie They Live. The movie is about a guy who finds a box filled with sunglasses that, when worn, unmask an alternate reality filled with aliens...or something like that.

It was close, but not quite it. I found that They Live was based on a story called 8 o'clock in the morning.

The faint memory I had was a closing scene shot through the lense of special glasses that allowed the wearer to see aliens disguised as humans. At first I thought They Live might have been a remake, but it was not.

I started to question my ability to recall with much accuracy anything from my childhood and was prepared to blame marijuana use as a teen for the dissociation. I'm reminded of why eyewitness testimony is so unreliable...but my mania was renewed after seeing the new Tarantino film.

I went hunting once again--determined to get satisfaction by finding what I was looking for, or burying it altogether under the realization that my mind, since 1970 or so, had been reduced to producing about as meaningful synapse as a bowl of day-old guacamole.

Eureka! Don't open that bag of tortilla chips just yet! I fk'n found it! And the scene is pretty much how I remember it. After something like 40 years this itch has finally been scratched!

It was a TV movie called The Love War. This is the final scene. The "money shot" @ about 10 mins.