Posted on 01/16/2022 4:37:14 PM PST by DFG
Ihave always loved science fiction. So when Soylent Green was first released in 1973, I immediately headed to the theater. I remember clearly being shocked by the depictions presented but assuaging myself with the comforting thought that nothing like any of that would ever actually happen.
The story takes place in 2022 — 50 years from when it was filmed. Now that 2022 has actually arrived, I decided to view the film again to check how well the writers did at predicting the world of today.
Unsurprisingly, the movie got several of the details very wrong, as Kyle Smith recently pointed out in a tongue-firmly-in-cheek takedown of contemporary liberal-hysteria culture. On a more macro level, the film also completely missed feminism, one of the most powerful social revolutions in history. In its dystopia, no women are in positions of power, and the main female characters are high-priced courtesans, known by the truly objectifying term “furniture.”
The tech revolution was also absent. There are no computers or cellphones in Soylent Green’s 2022. And, as Kyle also noted, the film erroneously depicts the world as riven by an overpopulation crisis so profound — New York City stuffed with 40 million people — that foods such as steak and fruit are in critically short supply, and most people are reduced to eating synthetic food chips.
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I wonder if the absence of tech could be explained by the overwhelming problems depicted in the movie. Seems like society was just barely hanging on.
"Global Warming" is a profound leftist scare scam.
The problems with shanty town California are entirely self inflicted, as are the lawlessness, disorder, and income distribution. President Trump showed these are inflicted on us, not intrinsic, natural occurrences.
Sorry, but SG is one of the least accurate SF movies I can recall.
I think they predicted $15/lb beef steak.
Human Tofu?
OH YEAH...
Brazil is one of my favorite movies. Sadly most people today can’t focus long enough to understand it. I call it ‘Art Deco Retro modern’.
The Deep State envisioned by Terry Gilliam. Anyone with the attention span that hasn’t seen the movie should definitely check it out.
There are some similarities to the world of today, though on a smaller scale, local and temporary rather than universal and permanent -- shortages, brown-outs, civil disorder. The novel, written in 1966, could be read as a prediction of the 1970s as much as of the 2020s.
The main prediction of incredible overpopulation, didn't come true yet and probably won't, but sooner or later we may be running down the street like Charlton Heston screaming out some truth that people don't want to hear.
I am pretty sure I walked to the theater to see this movie. Yes, it scared me.
I saw it when it came out, but I don’t remember it.
Probably true in the private offices of the Klaus Schwab, et al. If the Epstein/Maxwell incident taught us anything it is that the picture painted for public consumption is very different from the private reality.
How can Soylent Green happen in NY when everyone knows it was turned into a prison in 1997 and Snake Plisken had to escape from it?
One of the best. More difficult to understand since u.s. release had “happier” ending.
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