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Soylent Green

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  • 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.

  • Fast Facts

    1. Released May 9, 1973
    2. Genre: Science Fiction
    3. 97 minutes
    4. Director: Richard Fleischer
    5. Stars: Charlton Heston, Edward G Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters
    6. Themes: Overpopulation, global warming, cannibalism, futurism, dystopianism
    7. Won the Nebula Award for best Sci-fi film of 1973DPS Info: 1973 Nebula Final Ballot
  • 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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