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To: cincinnati65
Who's seen Soylent Green?
226 posted on 03/24/2002 6:03:05 AM PST by WhiteGuy
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To: WhiteGuy
I've seen Soylent Green. It isn't antiutopian so much as dystopian, but a lot of the minatory themes have an antiutopian feel to them.

The Soylent Corporation is supposed to be the malefic actor, but then it's just responding (in the film) to Malthusian population pressures: so who's the bad guy now? People who don't practice birth control? Hairton Cheston plays a policeman, whose High Noon-ish confrontation of the bad guy is softened by giving the cop an antiheroic personality. (He pilfers, he steals, he appropriates.) Interesting film, I would agree most of the values lean to the Left, but the cop as the last honest man, trying to Do Right, is pretty conservative, as is the rejection of dry-eyed utilitarianism and Mass Society models. Tough call. Any comments?

230 posted on 03/24/2002 6:23:55 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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