What 1973’s Soylent Green Accurately Predicted about 2022

National Review ^ | 01/16/2022 | Wesley Smith

[samkatz]

Pay wall. can't read. But I. heard that Soylent Green is
.. people

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I loved "Brazil" where Terry Gilliam had people using old phone dials to enter info into computers.

Socialism is AWESOME!

[Big Red Badger]

“It’s People!” Is the Target of the Year 2022.

[ealgeone]

I wonder if the absence of tech could be explained by the overwhelming problems depicted in the movie. Seems like society was just barely hanging on.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Don’t forget the sequels;

https://vimeo.com/541196478

[marktwain]

The movie's "hits" are not so profound when you consider they are and have been leftist scare tactics for 50 years, or are directly cause by leftist policies.

"Global Warming" is a profound leftist scare scam.

The problems with shanty town California are entirely self inflicted, as are the lawlessness, disorder, and income distribution. President Trump showed these are inflicted on us, not intrinsic, natural occurrences.

[rbg81]

Sorry, but SG is one of the least accurate SF movies I can recall.

[Kevmo]

I think they predicted $15/lb beef steak.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Human Tofu?

[Samurai_Jack]

OH YEAH...
Brazil is one of my favorite movies. Sadly most people today can’t focus long enough to understand it. I call it ‘Art Deco Retro modern’.

The Deep State envisioned by Terry Gilliam. Anyone with the attention span that hasn’t seen the movie should definitely check it out.

[x]

It wasn't literally meant to be a prediction of what life would be like in 2022. That was just a convenient date they thought was close enough in time to be like our world and far enough away to be different.

There are some similarities to the world of today, though on a smaller scale, local and temporary rather than universal and permanent -- shortages, brown-outs, civil disorder. The novel, written in 1966, could be read as a prediction of the 1970s as much as of the 2020s.

The main prediction of incredible overpopulation, didn't come true yet and probably won't, but sooner or later we may be running down the street like Charlton Heston screaming out some truth that people don't want to hear.

[NetAddicted]

I am pretty sure I walked to the theater to see this movie. Yes, it scared me.

[NetAddicted]

I saw it when it came out, but I don’t remember it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

In its dystopia, no women are in positions of power, and the main female characters are high-priced courtesans, known by the truly objectifying term “furniture.”

Probably true in the private offices of the Klaus Schwab, et al. If the Epstein/Maxwell incident taught us anything it is that the picture painted for public consumption is very different from the private reality.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Wait, wait, hold on there....Who says we don't have food made from people?

[FiddlePig]

Missed feminism? sorta, but maybe not... nowadays male females are in effect, better than female females. "Woke" feminism seems to produce that result.  

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

How can Soylent Green happen in NY when everyone knows it was turned into a prison in 1997 and Snake Plisken had to escape from it?

[Getready]

One of the best. More difficult to understand since u.s. release had “happier” ending.