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Movie Reviews of Soylent Green
Movie Review: A nightmare every time closer
Summary: 5 Stars
In 2022 the population's growth may reach eight billions people So the awful warning call given by Aldous Huxley ( A new visit for a brave new world) , George Orwell (Animal's farm or 1984) will suppose several restrictions about the free circulation vehicles and also an estimated amount of liters of water by each one of us.This film is a very clever scifi story about a overcrowded world, where the reduced free spaces of the world we know actually , may be more narrow.
The story holds a deep reflection about the effects of a claustrophobic world, the lack of certain benefits you assumed almost naturally till now.
This movie shows us about a reality not so far. This work was the last appearance of Edward G. Robinson; thanks to Heston efforts for including him in that role. The last sequence in which you watch the ancient world like it was; it depicts a bucolic landscape; and the Pastoral Symphony works out perfectly with this goal. You may feel it something tearful, but the remarkable point is the hidden message. Still we are on time to avoid it. But who'll take this dangerous flag?
This film was released just one year after since Roma's club establihment, in 1972. In that age I had the opportunity of reading that fundamental work of Barry Commoner titled The circle that it closes.Watch for this one. Because with these raising reflections about the enviroment concern around the world made it possible, by instance, avoid to throw several hazardous weapons over Vietnam, whose direct and collateral effects had not studied enough. Chernobyl was just only fourteen years before and Long island twelve years.
Only with this long introduction you'll be capable of understand why this film,together with Farenheit 451, Capricorn one, The Omega man, Zardoz, The planet of the apes , 2001 and Solaris were made between 1967 and 1972. We are taking about movies of film makers so distant in style and view directorial as Kubrick , Tarkovski, Truffaut, Schafner ,Hyams and Boorman, but surrounded by that cloudy atmosphere who involved the world in those days.
A must for you to watch. It will let you thinking for a long, long time.
Movie Review: Eerily Spectacular
Summary: 5 Stars
It amazes me that every time I see this film, it hits home harder. The futuristic view of New York City in 2022 in an earth depleted of its resources in which poverty and starvation are grim realities for the overwhelming majority of the population is frightening enough, but then comes the solution: a curious wafer, Soylent Green, that seems always to be in short supply, and people are forever waiting to get what little they can of it.
Detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) is assigned to investigate the death of one William R. Simonson (Joseph Cotten) who held a key position in the company that manufactured Soylent Green. Mysteriously, the case is quashed before it can be resolved. Thorn's irascible nature does not allow him to let the matter drop, while his roommate, the elderly Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson), talks mostly about how life was so much better in the Seventies when the earth still had resources, although, as he admits, "People were always rotten." Thorn will not let the case drop even though he is ordered to do so.
Other agents working for the Soylent company, such as Tab Fielding (Chuck Connors), are busy eliminating anyone who may have any information regarding the death of Simonson, which only spurs Thorn on to find out more and more. Meanwhile, Roth discovers a secret that explains why the Soylent company is so anxious to keep the death of Simonson quiet and Thorn off the case. As he dies -- "goes home", as the term is used in 2022 -- he instructs Thorn as to what he must do to disclose the secret of Soylent Green in all its horror.
The film depicts a world that is not unlike many other sci-fi futuristic societies seen in Running Man in which the people are starving and desperate for food. Scenes of the police coming in to ward off rioting crowds drive home a grim message indeed. The film is very compelling viewing definitely for an adult audience -- the film would not be suitable for children by any means -- with Edward G. Robinson's performance in what turned out to be his last role being probably the most memorable in a very good movie.
Movie Review: A Recipe More Jealously Guarded Then Coca-Cola
Summary: 5 Stars
"Soylent Green" is one of the greatest "mystery meat" movies of all time!
It ranks right up there with the following rumored culinary capers:
General Tso's Chicken food is made out of cats.
Korean Bul Golgi is made out of dogs.
McDonald's milkshakes are made out of Frisbees.
Kentucky Fried Chicken buckets sometimes contain rats.
School lunch burgers are made out of God knows what.
Tripe is made out of brains.
Cheese Food is not made out of cheese.
McDonald's hamburgers are made out of a substance that narrowly fits the legal definition of beef.
Hormel has the honesty to call their mystery meat "Spam," rather than trying to shorhorn it into the legal definition of ham.
Tofu is made out of soybeans.
Thai food smells suspiciouly like Thai whorehouses.
Cheese Whiz has even less cheese than Cheese Food.
Mikey died from eating Pop Rocks and immediately drinking Coca-Cola.
Fruitcakes outlast cockroaches, and may, in fact, contain a few of the critters.
Redi-Whip is actually made of real milk, but deadheads buy it for its medicinal properties.
And, Soylent Green is made out of......
...made out of.....
Well, I won't give away this riveting shock ending that will have you sitting on the edge of your seats in anticipation, in the only movie you'll see Joseph Cotten playing Pong and "Little Caesar" Edward G. Robinson reduced to riding an exercise bike to generate electricity.
But, I will drop a wee little hint:
It's made of the same stuff from which the Germans make lampshades.
You'll get my Soylent Green when you pry it from my Cold, Dead, Fingers, you damned dirty apes!!!!
Movie Review: Serious Science Fiction Shocker
Summary: 5 Stars
Tuesday is Soylent Green Day.
That ominous statement is delivered in the film as a kind of TV advertisement, an informational message aimed at the desperate denizens of an utterly socially ravaged world not so far removed from our own. Tuesday is a day they can look forward to because they can get Soylent Green. Considering the dismal nature of this future society, it's something which is sadly believable.
This film remains one of the more starkly realistic and disturbing portrayals of a future in which people have almost nothing of their own - including food and shelter. They have little human dignity left either. This is not the glorified future of Star Wars with blinking lights and merry talking droids and wise teachers over flowing with hopeful messages. It's a dirty, ridiculously over crowded nightmare where people treat each other as little more than cattle and even love is a dangerous luxury.
Charleton Heston plays a cop investigating the brutal murder of a powerful business man. In his quest to find the truth, he uncovers a thing so shocking it takes away loved ones, nearly robs him of his own sanity and leaves the viewer with such uneasiness it approaches the dark tone of a horror movie.
However what makes Soylent Green so powerfully unsettling is that so much of the fictional story could indeed come to pass. Indeed, this cautionary tale is even more timely now than when it debuted back in the 1970's. If you're looking for a sci-fi romp through a colorful world of zippy space ships and wacky alien races, look elsewhere. This is hardcore uncompromising science fiction which will stay with you.
Movie Review: Malthus was right
Summary: 5 Stars
Soylent Green is a true classic in the world of science fiction movies. There's no futuristic gadgetry or alien invasion here. Quite the opposite, there's a dense sense of medieval peasant society returning, and of mankind invading his own world - and losing to the invaders.
Charlton Heston is Thorn, a mostly-honest cop. Edward G. Robinson puts in a startling late-life performance as his "book," or research sidekick. The story follows Thorn on a murder case, stepping over the squatters that pack every square foot of the gray, gritty city. It follows him up into the penthouses of privilege, enclaves of luxury for the few who can afford it. Even here, though, poverty pervades. Luxury consists of a fresh carrot or stalk of celery, and of human decor (or "furniture"). It's easy to put a misogynist reading on the women who prostitute themselves as one of an apartment's amenities, but I think that's a mistake. Despite the male-in-charge sense of the movie as a whole, Shirl and the girls have escaped starvation the only way they could find: on their backs.
Despite the inevitable creep of the 1970s into this movie, it has held up well over time. Population pressure, poverty, and ecological collapse are as real now as ever, even if they're not so much in the forefront of general awareness. Privilege, power, and corruption are still real, too. So is inhuman treatment of human material, though not to the extend of using bulldozers to scoop up unruly crowds. And I promise you, you'll hear Beethoven's Pastorale very differently the next time you hear it.
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