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THX 1138
Drama, Science Fiction
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to austere dystopian visions, alienating soundscapes, and rebellion expressed through psychological disintegration rather than spectacle.
- Tone
- cerebral, bleak, eerie
- Payoff
- unease, catharsis
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- social control, emotional repression, individuality, rebellion
- Setting
- distant future, subterranean technocratic city
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