In this episode of The Channel I’m taking a look at a movie that was first released in 1971.
It was the first major motion picture from George Lucas, and it bombed at the cinema. In fact, it was all the executives at Warner Brothers could do to release it at all, they were so unhappy with it. So unhappy, that they insisted Lucas hand over the negatives for their own people to re-cut it and remove four minutes (that Lucas later put back in for the DVD release).
The movie shows a world where consumerism is compulsory and people are punished for not taking government-sanctioned drugs to keep people numb to reality. But what happens if someone decides not to take their drugs…? Blessings of the state, buy more, and be happy. Welcome to the world of citizen THX1138.