The Sci Fi Guy

Point blank: I don’t think I’ve done enough drugs to get this one. THX 1138 is a trippy mind bender set in a police utilitarian state where the workers build robotic policemen and have to stay sedated and / or medicated at all times (the workers, not the robots).

The audio is strange. The imagery is strange. Everything is backdropped on plain white canvases. I’m pretty sure there’s even a robot that jerks Robert Duvall off. Strange.

I tried really hard to understand what this movie was about, but throughout the duration (another quick movie - just 88 minutes) I kept asking myself, “Why the hell am I watching this?” Duvall doesn’t captivate me, and the way the audio is mixed makes it extremely hard to even understand which exact character I’m listening to. Then there’s the fact that everyone’s bald (including the ladies), except for a midget that shows up in an insane asylum room that’s all white. If you’re having trouble keeping up with my synopsis of the movie, you can see how frustrating it is to actually watch the movie!

Anyways, I’ll chalk this 1971 “classic” up to my standard response whenever I see a movie like this: I haven’t done enough drugs to get it.

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