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What 1973’s Soylent Green Accurately Predicted about 2022
National Review ^ | 01/16/2022 | Wesley Smith

Posted on 01/16/2022 4:37:14 PM PST by DFG

Ihave always loved science fiction. So when Soylent Green was first released in 1973, I immediately headed to the theater. I remember clearly being shocked by the depictions presented but assuaging myself with the comforting thought that nothing like any of that would ever actually happen.

The story takes place in 2022 — 50 years from when it was filmed. Now that 2022 has actually arrived, I decided to view the film again to check how well the writers did at predicting the world of today.

Unsurprisingly, the movie got several of the details very wrong, as Kyle Smith recently pointed out in a tongue-firmly-in-cheek takedown of contemporary liberal-hysteria culture. On a more macro level, the film also completely missed feminism, one of the most powerful social revolutions in history. 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.”

The tech revolution was also absent. There are no computers or cellphones in Soylent Green’s 2022. And, as Kyle also noted, the film erroneously depicts the world as riven by an overpopulation crisis so profound — New York City stuffed with 40 million people — that foods such as steak and fruit are in critically short supply, and most people are reduced to eating synthetic food chips.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dystopian; euthanasia; heston; soylentgreen
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To: Big Red Badger

It’s a cookbook. From dust to dessert.


21 posted on 01/16/2022 6:43:46 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Getready

To Serve Man.

It’s a cookbook!


22 posted on 01/16/2022 7:09:47 PM PST by wny ( )
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To: Samurai_Jack

Haven’t seen BRAZIL,,
But 12 MONKEYS has me Spellbound!!!
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SOYLENT GREEN was/is totally a Classic!


23 posted on 01/16/2022 7:10:15 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Getready

Assisted Suicide - (do the world a favor) Edward G. Robinson’s nice old man roled

into a meatburger. Also, they were working on Soylent Brown. The father on ‘8 is

enough’ worked in the suicide lounge.


24 posted on 01/16/2022 7:14:09 PM PST by Surrounded_too
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To: Big Red Badger

Note: Brazil has nothing to do with the country Brazil. The best I can say is that it was an excellent dystopian view of the madness and insanity in mankind’s society. Especially the acceptance of bureaucratic rules. The special effects were excellent for the time. No cgi as I remember.


25 posted on 01/16/2022 7:32:11 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: DFG

Edward G. Robinson’s death scene gets me every time. He was dying from cancer and only Heston knew it. A man to the very end.


26 posted on 01/16/2022 7:43:33 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
‘the sequels.’

It is funny at the same time that it is not.

27 posted on 01/16/2022 7:43:35 PM PST by Radix (Politicians; the Law and the Profits.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

He got to see a rushed version of the final edit on his deathbed.


28 posted on 01/16/2022 7:53:46 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: M1903A1

Didn’t know that. Thank you very much.


29 posted on 01/16/2022 7:55:50 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: DFG
The movie's predictions are seen to be nearly all true - if you substitute Lagos for New York.

Regards,

30 posted on 01/16/2022 11:27:46 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I like that, too. Also, “Harrison Bergeron” and handicapping reminds me of what is happening today.


31 posted on 01/17/2022 12:51:47 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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