SOYLENT GREEN

SOYLENT GREEN-

Belongs here, this sci fi classic hit all the important issues of today like world hunger and the right to die. There are some laff riot moments in this grim look at the future 2022, because you are "in the future" looking back at 1973. Charleton Heston continues his SCI FI phase after "Planet of the apes" and "Omegaman", plays Robert Thorn a crooked mean detective living in the "future". In the year 2022 all natural food like fruits, vegetables, and meat are no longer available , Whole Foods must've gone out of business. People are fed every day with this man-made substance called Soylent. Soylent is color coded as red, yellow and the most popular Soylent Green, the fillet mignon of the Soylent products.

This movie was made in the early 70's so it's a future that resembles "West world" or "2001 Space Odyessy" the kind of dark paranoia the book "1984" presented, instead of the bright colored 1984 that brought us MTV, Madonna and "Miami Vice". This was a future where prostitutes come with the apartment as they are referred to as furniture ( a whole new product line for the Ikea chain), and a future where the elderly and sent to die.

Edward G Robinson is the senile Sol Roth, he shares a secret hideout with Heston and they steal a supply of real natural foods like real strawberries, meat, eggs and butter. Later on Sol commits suicide since the right to die is common in 2022, he checks in the death spa where he was treated to classical music, a documentary from the Discovery Channel plays on a giant screen , while poisonous gas is released into the room. Thorn (Heston) watches his friend die then follows the dead body to the morgue where a secret is revealed!