Discover the THX 1138 Poster, a cult science fiction film by George Lucas. Immerse yourself in an oppressive and disturbing dystopian universe, where emotion is banished and rebellion is risky. An intense and memorable cinematic experience.
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Description of this THX 1138 Poster
THX 1138 is a 1971 American science fiction film co-written and directed by George Lucas in his directorial debut. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written by Walter Murch, the film stars Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence, with Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, and Ian Wolfe in supporting roles. The film is set in a dystopian future where the population is controlled by android police officers and the mandatory use of emotion-suppressing drugs.
THX 1138 was developed from Lucas’s 1967 student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which Lucas made while studying at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The feature film was produced as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and American Zoetrope. A novelization by Ben Bova was published in 1971.
The film received mixed reviews from critics and was initially unsuccessful, but later achieved critical acclaim and cult status, particularly following Lucas’s success with Star Wars (1977). A director’s cut prepared by Lucas was released in 2004.
In this dystopian future, sexual intercourse and reproduction are forbidden, while the use of psychotropic drugs is mandatory to force citizens to comply with the law and to ensure their ability to perform dangerous and demanding tasks. Emotions and the concept of family are taboo. The workers wear identical white uniforms and have shaved heads to emphasize uniformity, as do the police androids, who wear black, and the monks, who wear robes. Instead of names, the people have designations consisting of three arbitrary letters (called a “prefix”) and four numbers, appearing on an ID badge worn at all times.
SEN 5241 and LUH 3417, who work in video control centers, monitor the city. LUH has a male roommate, THX 1138, who works in a factory producing police androids. As the story begins, THX finishes his shift as loudspeakers urge workers to “tighten safety” and congratulate them on losing only 195 workers in the last shift to rival Plant 242.
On his way home, he stops at a confession booth in a row of several, and recounts his concerns and mutters prayers about the “party” and the “masses,” beneath the portrait of Jesus Christ of “OMM 0000.” A soothing voice greets THX, and OMM ends the confession with a farewell greeting: “You are a true believer, blessing of the state, blessing of the masses. Work hard, increase production, avoid accidents, and be happy.”
At home, THX takes drugs and watches holobiological shows while masturbating. LUH secretly replaces THX’s medication with pills she has in her possession, causing him to experience nausea, anxiety, and sexual desire. LUH and THX become romantic and have sex. THX is then confronted by SEN, who attempts to arrange for THX to become his new roommate, but THX files a lawsuit against SEN for the illegal shift change. Without drugs in his system, THX falters during a critical and dangerous phase of his work, and a control center initiates a “mind lock” on THX, increasing the danger level. After the mind lock is lifted, THX makes the necessary correction to this phase of work. THX and LUH are arrested, THX undergoes drug therapy, and one of his kidneys is removed for donation. He enjoys a brief meeting with LUH, interrupted shortly after she reveals her pregnancy.
At THX’s trial, it is declared that THX was clinically born. It is decided that it would be ineffective to terminate THX’s existence, so he is sentenced to prison, alongside SEN. The prison appears to be an entirely white space, with no walls. One of the prisoners is a “shell dweller,” later called a “Wookiee.” The other prisoners show no signs of escape. THX and SEN walk, searching for an exit. They walk and walk, seeing only white space around them. They are finally joined by the hologram of actor SRT 5752, who starred in the holocasts. SRT 5752 points them to the exit and suggests that they may have been going in circles. During the escape, THX and SRT are separated from SEN. Pursued by police robots, THX and SRT are trapped in a control center, from where THX learns that LUH has been “consumed” and her name has been reassigned to her fetus, numbered 66691, in a growth chamber. SEN eventually escapes to an area reserved for OMM monks, where a monk notices that SEN does not have an ID badge. SEN attacks him, then goes to an area reserved for children’s education, starts a conversation with them, and sits aimlessly until police androids apprehend him. THX and SRT steal two cars. SRT struggles to figure out how to drive the car. When SRT finally manages to get the car moving, he immediately crashes into a concrete pillar.
Pursued by two police androids on motorcycles, THX flees to the city limits and escapes down a ventilation shaft. The police androids chase him on motorcycles down the shaft to a fire escape, but Central Command orders them to cease the pursuit, claiming that the expenses associated with his capture exceed THX’s allocated budget. The guards inform THX that the surface is uninhabitable in a last-ditch attempt to convince him to surrender, but he is undeterred and continues up the ventilation shaft. It is then discovered that the city is entirely underground and that THX has escaped to the surface, where he watches the sunset.