Soylent Green

Soylent Green is a 1973 American Metrocolor science fiction film in Panavision directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh TaylorYoung, and, in his final film, Edward G. Robinson. The film combines the police procedural and science fiction genres, depicting the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans, and all year humidity due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including soylent green.

The 20th centurys industrialization has left the world permanently overcrowded, polluted and stagnant by the turn of the 21st century. In 2022, withmillion people in New York City alone, housing is dilapidated and overcrowded homeless people fill the streets about half are unemployed, the few lucky ones with jobs are only barely scraping by themselves, and food and working technology is scarce. Most of the population survives on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation, whose newest product is Soylent Green, a green wafer advertised to contain highenergy plankton from the worlds oceans, more nutritious and palatable than its predecessors Red and Yellow, but in short supply.New York City Police Department detective Frank Thorn Charlton Heston lives with his aged friend Solomon Sol Roth Edward G. Robinson. Due to Roths advanced age, he remembers life before its current miserable state, and he routinely waxes nostalgic for his youth when the air was clean and the weather was not perpetually summer. He was also well educated and has a small library of reference materials which he uses to help Det. Thorn solve crimes consequently Roth is referred to as a police book. While investigating the murder of William R. Simonson Joseph Cotten, obviously a member of the wealthy elite, Thorn questions Shirl Leigh TaylorYoung, a concubine referred to as furniture, and Tab Fielding Chuck Connors, Simonsons bodyguard, who, when the murder took place, was escorting Shirl to a store selling meat under the counter for Simonson. Thorn searches Simonsons apartment for clues and enjoys Simonsons luxurious lifestyle like air conditioning and hot running water, and he helps himself to Simonsons real bourbon, fresh vegetables, and a flank steak that Shirl had purchased earlier as a special surprise for Simonson. ........

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