#soylent green

[forthegothicheroine]

It's a real shame about cigarettes, they give actors in old movies such interesting (and sometimes sexy) things to do with their hands. I guess we need to start making neo-noirs where people seductively play with fidget spinners.

[tilbageidanmark]

Dystopian Spectrum Venn Diagram.

(Not exact but it's the thought that counts.)

[greenwichtraders]

[odinsblog]

[veronicaleighauthor]

Where's The Hunger Games?

[humanoidhistory]

Soylent Green (1973)

[more-flotsam-and-jetsam]

[facts-i-just-made-up]

why does my cat bites me

Because you taste like cat food. But you are a person. Which means... Cat food... IS PEOPLE!!! CAT FOOD IS PEOPLE!!!

[all-action-all-picture]

Soylent Green (1973). Poster art by John Solie.

[forthegothicheroine]

As a child in the 90s, we read a kids magazine in school with a bunch of predictions for what might happen in the next century. A description of overcrowding, with people stuffed end to end on the street with no room in sight, terrified me. My father laughed when I told him this, and informed me that they'd said the exact same things when he was a child.

2022 has come and gone, and overcrowding never got to be the problem the film Soylent Green predicted- not literally, at least. In a world where homelessness is rampant, the job market is dead, rent is unaffordable and political disaster looms around every corner, we may certainly feel we were born into a world with no room for us.

Everybody knows the big reveal (and even if you don't know, the poster all but gives it away) but there's more to Soylent Green than one unhappy ending. I was fixated on Edward G Robinson as Sol Roth, whom my father had said was the best Jewish character in science fiction, and his story broke my heart. The scene of his assisted suicide in particular got real tears out of me. (Although at least a future where research is done exclusively by old Jews may have a place for me.)

A lot of the film is dated (if made today, there'd be some male Furniture) and concerns about overpopulation often lean conservative, but it's still a solid downbeat scifi mystery with memorably harrowing scenes. Let's hope we keep growing our soy and algae crops so that our future involves 100% genuine plant-based protein products.

[oldinterneticons]

[colorhollywood]

Edward G. Robinson in different decades:

1937 with Bette Davis (Kid Galahad)

1944 with Joan Bennett (The Woman in the Window)

1956 with Debra Paget (The Ten Commandments)

1965 with Joan Blondell (Cincinnati Kid)

1973 with Charlton Heston (Soylent Green)

[cocksley-and-catapult]

hmmm. if they went to dinner together what would they order

[diablo1776]

You are here📍

[papas-majadas]

Thrift store pickups.

[beardedmrbean]

Do you want to stand there and watch while saying nothing as you know your friends are unknowingly consuming food made from people in the Soylent System?