00:00The broadcast was subtitled live.
00:30Perceiving reality through such a media user interface.
00:34Everything flickers and hisses, and supposedly it has something to do with us.
00:37Can you feel what difficulties you are experiencing?
00:41Good science fiction films tell stories about the present.
00:46Move slowly.
00:49THX 1138 is a worker, played by Robert Duval.
00:54His emotions have been numbed by a government drug program.
00:58It just needs to work.
01:00Everything human becomes a disruption.
01:05George Lucas already sketched out this chilling picture of a homogenized mass society in 1970.
01:12A society that worships consumption as a religion.
01:17I am dying.
01:19I am dying.
01:22Could you explain that in a little more detail?
01:25You are a true believer.
01:28You have the blessing of the state.
01:30You have the blessing of the masses.
01:32You are the most holy subject.
01:35Created in the image of man.
01:37By the masses, for the masses.
01:42Let us be grateful that trade exists.
01:45Buy more.
01:47Buy more now.
01:49Buy it and be happy.
01:54Locked away in an endless white.
01:57THX is in jail.
01:59His crime?
02:01Unauthorized discontinuation of sedatives.
02:04If the state gives out opium to the people, it must eventually be consumed.
02:08For me, this film thrives on its opulent minimalism.
02:13On methodological reduction.
02:15And Robert Duval as THX.
02:18He's as intense as the young De Niro.
02:32George Lucas was 25 when he made the film.
02:36Documentaries on the DVD trace the film's origins.
02:41To his right is Francis Ford Coppola, who produced the debut film.
02:49THX 1138 was originally a short film.
02:54The thesis with which George Lucas completed his studies at university.
03:01It already possesses the visionary brilliance of the longer version.
03:05and outlines the escape from an over-technologized world.
03:15The two film geniuses Lucas and Coppola chatting in their workshop.
03:48I'm having a baby.
03:52True love makes you independent and is not tolerated by the state here.
03:57I am moved and touched by how Lucas still evokes the subversive power of love and Eros.
04:04A force that is now evaporating under the pressure of pornographic mediatization.
04:09At least that's how it seems to me.
04:11Stand up.
04:11We are here to help you.
04:14You have nothing to notice.
04:16You have nothing to notice.
04:16Caution!
04:20THX smells bad.
04:22He is almost swept away by the dull mass, which has long since submitted to a totalitarian technologization.
04:28A dictatorship of the machines.
04:31One of them flees.
04:32Before self-imposed immaturity.
04:36For me, THX 1138 is a parable about the ever-endangered utopia of the Enlightenment.
04:42A classic couldn't be more relevant.
04:44A seal.
04:56A seal.
04:58A seal.
05:03A seal.
05:05See you next time.
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