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A Disturbing Depiction of the Future
by cabbagestew (movies profile)
Feb 16, 2005
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Released in 1973 and starring Charlton Heston, Brock Peters and EG Robinson, Soylent Green is a disturbing yet progressive story that leaves you thinking and questioning what you eat in the end!
The story is set in the future - the year 2022. There are 40,000,000 people in New York City alone. Overpopulation caused environmental problems and a food shortage. Only the wealthiest people can afford luxuries such as soap, liquor, strawberries and meat. The government contracted with the Soylent Corporation to distribute rations everyone else. The rations are in the form of Soylent Red, Soylent Yellow and the new product Soylent Green (a green cracker-like product). In the course of the film, one of the of the board members of the Soylent Corporation is murdered, and Thorn (Heston) attempts to solve the murder mystery. In the midst, he discovers the true source of Soylent Green (hint: it wasn't soy and minerals!).
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