Released 50 years ago, “Soylent Green” is an eerie prophecy

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Released 50 years ago, “Soylent Green” is an eerie prophecy
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Humans have ravaged the natural world, resources are scarce and climate change has brought on a heatwave. The unnerving part is that the film is set in 2022

Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitask” , which ended with the revelation that civilisation had been destroyed in a nuclear war. In “The Omega Man” , civilisation had been wiped out again, this time by biological warfare. In “Soylent Green”—released 50 years ago, in 1973—civilisation is hanging on, but the situation is precarious.climate change

Loosely based on “Make Room! Make Room!”, a novel of 1966 by Harry Harrison, “Soylent Green” is a melancholy conspiracy thriller written by Stanley Greenberg and directed by Richard Fleischer. Heston stars as Robert Thorn, a hard-bitten police detective in New York who shares a cluttered flat with his sweet old assistant, played by Edward G. Robinson in his final role .

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