It's been a while since I have seen this
film on
Cable TV, but I find it a great
commentary on the idea (from 1970, mind you) that
people will be
controlled with
drugs (
Ritalin, anyone?) in the
future. THX 1138 (played by
Robert Duvall) is a worker in a
robot factory who didn't take his drugs leading to him making his "domestic partner"-type woman LUH 3417 (
Maggie McOmie) pregnant. You can see him taken to a "white room" prison with no escape in sight. THX 1138's final car chase against the robot
cops is a solemn, quiet one leading to the ending...
By the way, please watch the widescreen version -- the formatted version I rented years ago is badly made for us to see, let alone understand...