Soylent Green

Categories: 1970s Films

  • Soylent Green is a 1973 film starring the late Charlton Heston as an NYC detective in the year 2022. The film prefigures 1982's Blade Runner as a combination of science fiction and police procedural.

    Before reading on, note that the Plot Summary, as well as the Fast Facts below, are potential film spoilers.

  • Plot Summary

    While investigating the murder of a director of the processed food manufacturer Soylent, Heston's character, detective Robert Thorn, uncovers a broader and more sinister crime. In a world without books, where people are confined to cities and where overpopulation has led to limited food supply and riots, a new food source has been manufactured, supposedly from a mixture of soy beans and lentils. However, during a murder investigation, Thorn discovers that the real ingredient behind the product is recycled protein from a very unusual source: deceased human beings.

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