Soylent Green is made of it.
Out of all the motion pictures depicting a dystopian future, soylent green, is probably the most depressing to me. Even though there aren't any physical monsters like the thing or the monster of Frankenstein, this movie is still very scary and depressing.
In this movie, the unintended consequences of 'progress' is what makes up almost all of the horrible problems, in soylent green. Although there are many different problems in soylent green, all the way from the roles of women to the unbearable heat, there are two major problems in the movie. One of the problems is immediately evident in the film, we learn that there are way too many people, too many for the earth to support. The second main problem is actually the title of the movie, soylent green. Soylent green itself isn't the actual problem, but everything about it, from why it was created to how its made are all huge problems. Even though soylent green isn't that big of a deal at a first glance, I have realized that all of the problems in the movie share one thing in common, soylent green.
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soylent green probably is the most depressing movie we have seen thus far. this is also probably because at the end, the viewer really doesn't see what happens. Thorn had found the disturbing truth but whether or not people would do something about it (or believe him for that matter) is a different story. then again, the film makers may have done that on purpose to let people know at the time that the future is in their hands and that they can write their own. They knew all about the energy crisis, it's their/our choice to do something about it.
ReplyDeleteThe end of the film is like the present day in that we don't know what the future will be like. The end forces us to question what the future will be like within the context of the film, and the viewer questions what the non-fictional "real world" will be like.
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