THX 1138
- heavy
- measured
- inventive
- cold
Heavy, measured, measured sci-fi / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
Our read · THX 1138 (1971) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal sci-fi · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of THX 1138
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The reading.
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