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1973
Soylent Green is a 1973 American dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. It is loosely based on the 1966 science-fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, with a plot that combines elements of science fiction and a police procedural. The story follows a murder investigation in a dystopian…
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Soylent Green, starring Charlton Heston, paints a dystopian society where overpopulation and a greenhouse effect has taken a toll on Human Society, taking place in New York City, population 40 million. As the film takes place in the year 2022, and this year is 2022, I thought it was an appropriate choice to do a film review, plus it has some outstanding performances by many of the cast members, including, and especi…More
The Year 2022... Something to think about... Tonight, I was sitting here thinking I knew my wife had heard the line from the movie, "Soylent Green," you know, the classic, "Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!" but she had never actually watched the movie, so in keeping with my tin foil personality, but being sick of the normal, I decided to put on an old classic, and she is currently playing a game and half watching it, so I…More
Science fiction as a genre was often belittled as "escapist" by the cultural establishment. However, judging by the way science fiction appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that genre was anything but escapist. Instead of allowing viewers to indulge in optimistic visions of other worlds and thus forget a depressing reality, Hollywood science fiction films of the pre-Lucas era often did quite the opposite—visi…More
