Saw the movie Soylent Green again

[SouthernDem4ever]

I remember seeing this in the mid 70's. It takes place in 2022 lol. Sadly, watching this movie struck some parallels to what is happening today. The biggest thing is the homeless people all over the streets. Big cities are starting to mirror that. If we keep going the fascist route I am afraid we'll get very close to how society was depicted in that movie. The only difference would be that repug fascists wouldn't even try to feed anyone, they would just let people starve.

[edhopper]

1. In this world today

when they found out Soylent Green is people, half would say "Well, it still taste pretty good." and go on eating.

[Walleye]

2. 👆 Good one!

[SouthernDem4ever]

5. I am sure it would have lots of added sugar and possibly some nicotine to keep up sales

[Xavier Breath]

11. Not to mention McDonalds' Soylent Green value menu.

Supersize it? Why, I thought you'd never ask!

[SouthernDem4ever]

21. ROFL!

[Walleye]

3. That movie made an impression on me when it was new I saw it in the theater. I thought of it often

Especially things like, strawberries, 50 bucks a jar. And then somehow even in all this dystopia, The wealth gap got even larger

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Edward G. Robinson's last film. He was great. n/t

[Kennah]

8. He was wonderful in Soylent Green

Whenever the wife watches The Ten Commandments, I have to leave the room, or I start laughing when he's on-screen as Dathan.

I cannot unhear his voice in The Ten Commandments done as Little Caesar.

"This guy Moses, see. Split the Red Sea, see."

[Solomon]

18. Me too!

[betsuni]

6. I always wondered why nobody in that version of the future figured out birth control.

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. It was probably outlawed by repuglicans

[betsuni]

9. And where did all those people go to the bathroom?

Also, everyone must've been very stinky.

[SouthernDem4ever]

10. Water was scarce. The environment was ruined

So all resources were low, but just given to the rich. Hmm, sound familiar?

[Hortensis]

12. :) Doesn't sound familiar to me, or look familiar. Soylent's a fantasy.

[SouthernDem4ever]

22. Maybe a fantasy nightmare.

It shows what a society could be like if water were scarce, the earth was too hot and agriculture wasn't viable anymore. We are on our way there right now.

[betsuni]

16. No. People aren't that stinky in real-time 2023.

So why wasn't there a big Our Revolution of The People if the rich oligarchs took everything in that movie? Too stinky, not enough restrooms?

[Kennah]

20. Sex was illegal in the future in Demolition Man

[kimbutgar]

13. The movie was supposed to take place in 2022

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Edward G Robinson got to me.

At his end, he watched pictures of the world as it was.



Harry Harrison was a remarkable genius.

[Hortensis]

15. How bad could it REALLY get in the U.S.?

One genuine, well respected climate change specialist -- among many being interviewed who worry that dystopian notions are vastly overdone and unrealistic -- tried to create context by explaining that, with all our troubles we'll have to deal with, our living conditions here won't "even" get as bad as the 1950s.

I remember the 1950s. We WERE much poorer as a nation because so much was much more expensive due to higher production costs, or not invented yet. Many (most) things were not nearly as nice as now.

Most people live now at Father Knows Best and I Love Lucy standards, but didn't then. AC was new and extremely popular, but many who needed it didn't have it; some didn't even have indoor plumbing. Life spans were more than a dozen years shorter. Young people didn't hop planes for distant vacations.

We don't want to go back to that, but people in advanced nations (and out of the worst-affected geographic zones) won't. We won't. A huge new task we now have, though, is battling the unrealistic dystopianism being pushed by malignant elements to discourage belief in futures we'd want -- and thus suppress voting for politicians with plans for not just meeting the challenge but building better.

[Johnny2X2X]

17. Perspective

Thanks. There's often a romanticization of the 50s when the 50s were not a great era to live in America, especially if you were a woman, a monority, or a child.

Joe Biden is dismanlting Trickle Down Economics, and taking us back from the brink. But my big fear is that climate change caused immigration at our Southern border will eventually get so bad that a Far Right strongman is able to seize power here for good. It doen't get talked about enough, but much of the current immigration at the SOuthern border is being driven by Global Warming. Farming in the mountains of Central America is no longer sustaining because of Climate Change, so people overcrwded the cities which taed the infrastructure there and caused the cities to be violent and awful, so people are leaving them to try to come to America.

[SouthernDem4ever]

23. Nice sentiment

but have you seen the tent cities in Seattle, Oakland, Portland, etc?

[marble falls]

19. One of the best cheap special effects, low production values movie ever made. Great movie!