Soylent Green continues to thrill inspite of its dated production in 1973. A dystopian science fiction movie, it depicts a future in which overpopulation leads to depleted resources, widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit, vegetables, and meat are rare and commodities are expensive and reserved only for the very powerful and rich.
Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including " soylent yellow" and "soylent green" wafers.
New York City police detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) with the help of an elderly police researcher Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) investigated the brutal slaying of a wealthy businessman named William R. Simonson (Joseph Cotten). Thorn and Roth uncover clues which pointed to something more sinister. That Soylent Green was made from human flesh!
The film, which is loosely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel "Make Room! Make Room" by Harry Harrison, won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973.
As a movie, it is at once shocking and unnerving.
Superb acting by Charlton Heston and Edward G Robinson.
Good movie to watch again and again.
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