March 21 - THX 1138

Today’s movie is a science fiction classic with a scene that happens today, March 21. I hope you will enjoy this film and watch it tonight.

THX 1138         

On March 21, 2_75 [2:57 to 16:44] in an underground city, the population is controlled by drugs and sex is outlawed. SEN 5241(a man) and LUH 3417 (a woman) work in the surveillance center. Luh 3417 has a male roommate THX 1138. He works in a factory making android robots. In a similar factory radioactive materials kill some workers. On the way home THX 1138 stops at a booth where computer OMM 0910 spouts platitudes. At home he takes his drugs and watches mindless entertainment. LUH switches her drugs for THX 1138’s drugs. This causes him to have emotional feelings and he and LUH 3417 have sex. She suggests they escape, but he declines. THX 1138 stops taking his drugs. SEN 5241 changes LUH 3417’s shift and tries to talk THX 1138 into becoming his roommate. THX 1138 files a complaint against SEN 5241. The control center mentally immobilizes THX 1138 prior to his arrest for non drug use. This occurs at a critical time and almost causes a nuclear accident.  THX 1138 and LUH 3417 are arrested. They have a brief reunion in an all-white limbo and she tells him she is pregnant. At the trial of THX 1138 he is spared the death penalty and returned to limbo. He meets SEN 5241 there. Aided by hologram SRT they escape. SRT and THX 1138 end up in the control center, where THX 1138 learns LUH 3417 is dead. SEN 5241 is rearrested. THX 1138 and SRT steal cars, but SRT crashes. THX 1138 reaches the edge of the city, climbs out an escape hatch and sees the sun for the first time.  

A classic dystopian film. This movie is a cereberal film that you have to watch. This is not just mindless entertainment, but an important film everyone should watch.

This date is given in the film at 13:50.

Producers - Edward Folger,  Lawrence Sturhahn and Francis Ford Coppola

Director - George Lucas

Screenplay - George Lucas and Walter Murch

Runtime – 1 hour 28 minutes

Released – March 11, 1971

Cast –

Robert Duvall as THX 1138

Donald Pleasence as SEN 5241

Don Pedro Colley as the hologram SRT

Maggie McOmie as LUH 3417

Ian Wolfe as the old prisoner PTO

Marshall Efron as prisoner TWA

Sid Haig as prisoner NCH

James Wheaton as the voice of OMM 0910

Copyright by Ivan Walters 2014.