THX 1138 was director George Lucas' directorial debut. Released in 1971 to a lukewarm reception, it's captured the hearts and minds of viewers around the world since. The film was a dystopian, symbolic vision of one man's escape from his daily imprisonment.

These days it isn’t heard  to imagine a future where your social security number became your only  form of identification. Besides, in America, it now seems to be just about  the only form of identification that really counts anyway. Well, take that  concept to the nth degree and imagine a bleak time in the future, when all other forms of human identification are stripped away- leaving people to  be identified by serial numbers or even barcodes- sounds scary even now.  

However, back in 1971, when George Lucas’ THX 1138 first premiered, I’m sure it seemed far more frightening, especially when you  consider that people were still shuffling papers manually, there wasn’t  a computer on every desktop and information wasn’t instantaneously  accessible.

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The sounds and images that erupt from the film are carefully planned and wonderfully executed.  THX 1138 was a film years ahead of its time.

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