THX 1138

THX 1138 is a motion picture made in 1969 (but not released to theaters until 1971) primarily about two residents of a dystopian future-state where a high level of control is exerted upon the residents through the ever-presence of faceless, android police-officers and the mandatory, regulated use of special drugs that eliminate emotion and sexual desire. It was the first feature-length film directed by George Lucas, and in reality simply a more developed, feature length version his student film Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138:4EB, which he made in 1967 while he was attending the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. It shares themes with The Machine Stops, Ayn Rand's novella Anthem, Brave New World and, to a lesser extent, 1984, and was inspired, in part, by the short film 21-87.

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