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Is 'Soylent Green' our future?Posted by riverdeep on Mon Mar-03-08 05:58 PMOr some off-shoot of it? Finally got around to watching this last night after years of hearing about it. Except for the typically hack acting by Heston, it was a decent enough movie. The concept was better than the execution, overall. And what a concept. To summarize, (SPOILERS-avoid reading this paragraph if you don't want to know) it's the year 2022, the world is severely overpopulated, cities are nothing more than dust bowls, no vegetation. No one is allowed out of these cities. The farms that exist are guarded heavily. New York city, once one of the wealthiest in the world, now at 40 million, has most of it's citizens living a third-world existence, sleeping in stairwells, on cots in a shelter if they're lucky. To survive, they eat synthetic products from corporations. People of a certain age no longer remember 'real food'. There are in this world, like ours, the super-wealthy, who can still obtain real food. A jar of strawberry jam costs $150 dollars (and that's imagined in 1973, when the movie was made). A small cut of beef is a luxury that even the rich find difficult to obtain. Into this world comes Heston's character, who makes a discovery about a new variety of Soylent product, Soylent Green-a big hit with the masses. The oceans are now dying, the farms are dying, and well, there are a lot of people.The scenes with the characters enjoying things we now take for granted were the ones that resonated most highly with me. To look out at a field and see green fields and rivers. To take a hot shower with soap. To eat fresh food. Edward G. Robinson's character asks achingly, "How could we have let this go", or something to that effect. It was his last film.BTW, if you have a Netflix account and Internet Explorer, this is one of the movies you watch instantly, on your computer.
riverdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-03-08 05:58 PMOriginal messageIs 'Soylent Green' our future? Advertisements [?]Or some off-shoot of it? Finally got around to watching this last night after years of hearing about it. Except for the typically hack acting by Heston, it was a decent enough movie. The concept was better than the execution, overall.And what a concept. To summarize, (SPOILERS-avoid reading this paragraph if you don't want to know) it's the year 2022, the world is severely overpopulated, cities are nothing more than dust bowls, no vegetation. No one is allowed out of these cities. The farms that exist are guarded heavily. New York city, once one of the wealthiest in the world, now at 40 million, has most of it's citizens living a third-world existence, sleeping in stairwells, on cots in a shelter if they're lucky. To survive, they eat synthetic products from corporations. People of a certain age no longer remember 'real food'. There are in this world, like ours, the super-wealthy, who can still obtain real food. A jar of strawberry jam costs $150 dollars (and that's imagined in 1973, when the movie was made). A small cut of beef is a luxury that even the rich find difficult to obtain. Into this world comes Heston's character, who makes a discovery about a new variety of Soylent product, Soylent Green-a big hit with the masses. The oceans are now dying, the farms are dying, and well, there are a lot of people.The scenes with the characters enjoying things we now take for granted were the ones that resonated most highly with me. To look out at a field and see green fields and rivers. To take a hot shower with soap. To eat fresh food. Edward G. Robinson's character asks achingly, "How could we have let this go", or something to that effect. It was his last film.BTW, if you have a Netflix account and Internet Explorer, this is one of the movies you watch instantly, on your computer.Refresh | 0 Recommendations Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top
fenriswolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-03-08 06:01 PMResponse to Original message1. SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE OUT OF PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top
BuffyTheFundieSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-03-08 06:02 PMResponse to Original message2. Probably Updated at 2:17 PM In more ways than one. Actually I envision a combination of Soylent Green and Logan's Run. But maybe I'm just too cynical after this nasty primary cycle. Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top
Ooops. I duped this one.
Quote from: Attero Dominatus on March 03, 2008, 05:26:49 PMOoops. I duped this one.merged
In more ways than one. Actually I envision a combination of Soylent Green and Logan's Run.
