By: Vickie J. Rubinson
Set in the year 2022, Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a future in which overpopulation leads to depleted resources on Earth. This leads to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruits, veggies and meat are rare, commodities are expensive and much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green" wafers.
The film, starring Charlton Heston as a police dectective, is loosely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison. It won the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973.
Creepiest moment- In the film after Heston's friend Roth learns the truth about Soylent Green--he decides he can no longer deal with the world and states that he is "going home."
He signs up for a government-provided euthanasia. When Roth arrives at the clinic, he is asked to select a lighting scheme and a type of music for the euthanasia chamber. When he goes to the euthanasia chamber, a selection of Classical music plays through the speakers and films are projected on large screens.
Whew! What a way to go. "Soylent Green" is aruguably one of the best science fiction films, along with Heston's other great classic "Omega Man."
Set in the year 2022, Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a future in which overpopulation leads to depleted resources on Earth. This leads to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruits, veggies and meat are rare, commodities are expensive and much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green" wafers.
The film, starring Charlton Heston as a police dectective, is loosely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison. It won the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973.
Creepiest moment- In the film after Heston's friend Roth learns the truth about Soylent Green--he decides he can no longer deal with the world and states that he is "going home."
He signs up for a government-provided euthanasia. When Roth arrives at the clinic, he is asked to select a lighting scheme and a type of music for the euthanasia chamber. When he goes to the euthanasia chamber, a selection of Classical music plays through the speakers and films are projected on large screens.
Whew! What a way to go. "Soylent Green" is aruguably one of the best science fiction films, along with Heston's other great classic "Omega Man."
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