Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)

Directed by

George Lucas

Genre

science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

15 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 74 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a sterile dystopian future, a man named THX 1138 tries to escape a society that suppresses individuality and emotion. The film follows his attempts to break free from a rigid, controlled system.

futuristicclinicaloppressivebleakcoldtenseminimalistexistential

What happens

Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB is a 1967 social science-fiction short film written and directed by George Lucas while he attended the University of Southern California's film school. Lucas reworked the short into the 1971 theatrical feature THX 1138. In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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