THX-1138
THX comes from a follicularly deprived subterranean world of the future. You can tell it is the future, not because the technology has improved, but rather because it is installed in mind-boglingly poor locations. This misplaced technology is used to monitor people. I suppose. Really it just seems to be so we can watch people blow up and Donald Pleasance can get his jollys.
The story is pretty much the same in each act. Guy has it bad. Guy does what nobody else will – leave. Watch him leave by scrumping, watch him leave by wandering through the london fog from Get Smart, watch him leave in a fast car. Through out the whole thing he is reactive, not proactive. you see nothing special in THX which forces the question of why watching someone who is entirely the result of other people’s influence is supposed to inspire us to maintain the independence of the 60s.
Oh yeah, and at the end he is “reborn” by going through a tunnel. what’s the literary equivalent for gagging while rolling eyes?