Science Fiction · Drama
American
1971 · Directed by George Lucas · 86 min
In a sterile underground society, citizens wear identical white uniforms, take mandatory sedatives and are watched at every turn. One worker, known only by a code, begins to feel something he was never meant to. A cold, spare, strange debut feature.
Why it matters in cinema history
A key early film of the New Hollywood generation and of the American dystopian science fiction of the early 1970s. It was also one of the first projects of Coppola's independent American Zoetrope.
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Watch it as a designed system: how space, sound and repetition show a society before any character explains it.
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