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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It’s a cookbook. From dust to dessert.
To Serve Man.
It’s a cookbook!
Haven’t seen BRAZIL,,
But 12 MONKEYS has me Spellbound!!!
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SOYLENT GREEN was/is totally a Classic!
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.
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.
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.
It is funny at the same time that it is not.
He got to see a rushed version of the final edit on his deathbed.
Didn’t know that. Thank you very much.
Regards,
I like that, too. Also, “Harrison Bergeron” and handicapping reminds me of what is happening today.
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