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# Soylent Green [DVD] [1973]

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Product description          NOTICE: The disk has English audio and subtitles.             .co.uk Review          While Soylent Green may be one of the many dystopian visions of the future, the film stands out because it's one of the few titles that addresses current environmental issues head on. Adapted from Harry Harrison's novel Make Room, Make Room, it gives us a nightmarish vision of an over-populated, polluted future on the brink of collapse--a vision that gets uncomfortably closer every year. Charlton Heston as police officer Thorn investigates a murder in between suppressing food riots and uncovers the nightmarish truth about Soylent Green, the new foodstuff being sold to the poor.  The film neatly combines police procedural with conspiracy thriller. Heston's scenes are counterpointed by more elegiac ones in which the centenarian Edward G Robinson as his friend Sol broods on the world he has outlived--his death in a euthanasia chamber is a gloriously lachrymose moment, which he plays to the hilt. Heston, too, is good as Thorn, a morally equivocal cop who loots the apartments of the victims whose deaths he investigates--he's a man just getting by in an impossible world. On the DVD: Soylent Green on disc comes with a commentary from director Richard Fleischer, the highpoint of which is a memorable description of what it was like to work with the brilliant ailing, entirely deaf Robinson. He is joined by Leigh Taylor-Young whose work on the film as heroine led to years of serious environmentalist commitment. It has a useful contemporary making-of documentary and touching shots of Robinson's 100th birthday party with telegrams from Sinatra and others. The feature itself is presented in anamorphic widescreen with its original mono sound. --Roz Kaveney

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Science Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
- **Format:** PAL, Colour, Widescreen, Mono, Anamorphic
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- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 33 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Food for the people, made by the people with the people
*by S***2 on 9 March 2025*

A great film. Would recommend

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A warning from our past to what is in our future.
*by R***5 on 16 October 2007*

Thought provoking and way ahead of its time. I remember my sister as a teenager seeing this film when it was first released, and then excitedly telling the family about the film's vision of the future.Although the film now looks dated (it was after all made 34 years ago) it is I feel probably the most realistic in its forecast of the future for mankind when compared to other late 1960's and early 1970's films, such as `2001: A Space Odyssey' and `Logan's Run'.The underlying theme of the film is that the world's population has increased to such a level that there is simply not enough food to feed everyone, and that what food production there is has been irreversibly damaged by pollution. So a synthetic `miracle' food has been developed and the masses told its raw material is harvested from plankton. It is against this backdrop that the main character - Thorn - investigates the murder of a senior executive of the corporation (Soylent) manufacturing the food.It is another aspect or dimension of the film that has had the most impact with me: the film is set against a backdrop of a heat wave. The main characters are portrayed as sweating and damp from the heat. The streets are filled with masses of people all trying to find food and stay cool. The primary character (Thorn, played by Charlton Heston) shares an apartment with Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson). During a discussion one morning Roth starts to rant about the how world he knew as a child and a young man has been destroyed by pollution and that the constant 90-degree heat wave is the result of greenhouse gas omissions! How prescient for 1973 (the year the film was made). As far as I am aware the greenhouse effect and the warming of the Earth's climate due to carbon emissions was little known about at that time - if known about at all.To get just an inkling of what our world could be like in the not-so-distant future see this film. It's an old saying but "the science fiction of today is the science fact of tomorrow", and `Soylent Green' gives a clear warning and advance `taster' of what we can expect from our future. How many more times can we be told we all have to do something about climate change now to prevent it becoming irreversible. See this film to see an artistic though potentially realistic view of what's ahead if we don't!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another classic if aged a little
*by W***  on 6 October 2024*

Hard not to watch this now and see a picture of the world we increasingly live in. Once high fantasy apoc drama is now something more of a prophetic warning of our world. A gripping narrative that moves along swiftly. Time has shown some of its language and effects to have aged poorly but past that remains a good story.

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