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THX 1138
UNITED STATES · 1971

THX 1138

George Lucas
totalitarianism drug control human autonomy forbidden love dystopian society
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Synopsis

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.

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