Whilst society’s ongoing change occurs, often it is the use of dystopian texts that explore our own future best. Dystopian fiction is a sub-genre under speculative fiction that undermines the fears of society in its given context. In modern dystopias, this is often through the use of a totalitarian government or in an environment of absolute control. However, in a teeming civilization, it may only take an individual to break this conformity. Thus, effective dystopias best express the faults in a civilization of often an oppressed society, by exploring the idea of individuality, a natural factor in mankind, that acts as an opposing force. Particularly in George Lucas’ debut sci-fi THX 1138, the text feeds to society’s questions concerning both environmental, sociopolitical and technological change
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This is most clearly conveyed in the film’s construction of civilization being computerized and the tensions that are created when human nature responds to such a fabricated civilization.
The society that George Lucas has created is one that is both typical to that of a dystopian but also revolutionary in being a very early of dystopian film in which a totalitarian society controls all individuality and its reliance on conformity. While technological advances were rapidly progressing, it was the fear that
This is most clearly conveyed in the film’s construction of civilization being computerized and the tensions that are created when human nature responds to such a fabricated civilization.
The society that George Lucas has created is one that is both typical to that of a dystopian but also revolutionary in being a very early of dystopian film in which a totalitarian society controls all individuality and its reliance on conformity. While technological advances were rapidly progressing, it was the fear that