what do you think happens to THX after he escapes?

nic80, you are giving an answer about the filming, not about the movie.

You like Sigur Ros. I hope you like my train of thought.

In Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", through astronaut Dave Bowman's eyes, we enter a portal that eventually takes us two million years into the future, the Starchild.

What happens in THX-1138 is a small chapter in the historical, unseen events that happen between contemporary humanity and its' inevitable evolution into Starchild.

Just for the fun of it, I'll throw in 2450 as the year of THX. There are still almost two million years to go!

THX-1138 is the REAL netherworld of Science Fiction movies: original AND faithfull to the Clarke/Kubrick ideal.

There is a rumour that Lucas will go back to "art films". All I can say is Hooray!

It would be sacrilage to make a sequal to a film like this! It's like writing part 2 of nineteen eighty four - sure it would probably be good coming from the same author and it may quench or curiosity, but it could only detract from the impact of the first.

I have to say, I was a little cynical about this film before I watched it. I had the idea that it was hyped up purely because it was his first - I mean the one comment it gives on the DVD is Lucas' first film - a visionary film'... even the producers weren't selling it! But oh my god, I was blown away. Fantastic! From the creator of 'Star Wars: the most hyped up soap opera in this galaxy' came a masterpiece certainly worthy of being mentioned alongside Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut.

Excellent film!

>Ok, this could be one of the euphemistic obfuscations of this system. <

What the HELL is THAT supposed to mean!? That has to be one of the LAMEST attempts at "talking smart" I have ever seen.

Damn you all to hell!

OHM is a hologram

I like the Statute of Liberty thing

He gets a bad sun burn on his lilly white bald head.

So yes, THX does find other people when he escapes. He lives in a primative village where people are slowly learning to live in harsh conditions.

Is that in the book or something?


OHM is a hologram

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well, actually, more the point of plato's allegory is that while chained facing the wall, the man sees the shadows and believes that all the world is composed of is these shadows.. when he is freed and can see the objects that create the shadows, that is the point. what creates the shadows of our world, and why are we so blinded to believe that there can be nothing beyond the cave with the fire behind us? it's not the sun that amazes him, it's the realization of just how wrong he's been, and the posibility of what he's seeing being yet another shadow of something greater. while the people he returns to tell indeed think him mad, killing him has very little to do with the point of the allegory.

but yes, matrix, thx 1138, 1984, equilibrium, brave new world, we, et cetera ad nauseum, all of the dystopian books/films smack of plato. it's pretty important, i think, to be aware of this... that the feeling you get whenever you sympathize with any of these characters is as old as human written philosophy itself.

The title of this film should be as the title of a great european film I saw in school. "A Man Escapes" the title tells you everything that happens, and nothing that happens. It tells you what will happen, but you don't believe it til it does.


THX escapes, and that is enough. If you don't get goose bumps when he sees the sun, you weren't paying attention. There is no more to the story. The story says, no one realises who i one the journey and who isn't. No one can make the journey except THX.

He is ultimately alone, but ultimately free.


"Somewhere in this universe there must be something better than man."- Taylor, Planet of the Apes