Soylent Green

I've wanted to see this for so long, and it's been worth the wait. Surprisingly, "Soylent Green" is a literate, intellectually stimulating portrayal of life in the not too distant future. Maybe it's a little too realistic for comfort, but that what's makes it such a good film. Extremely downbeat for a Hollywood movie, but prescient, and compelling. The visuals of a rundown society with no food, and the majority of people living on the street confront the viewer with a world of the future that could possibly become a reality. Charlton Heston is outstanding as a police detective investigating the mysterious death of a rich and influential businessman. Edward G Robinson has a poetic turn as a philosophical old man who knows this world he is living in is not the one he cares to remember. "The scoops are coming for you" is a memorable phrase in a sequence that illustrates the fate of the unnamed and neglected poor who rebel against their fate with disastrous consequence. I don't understand why this film isn't more well known, but with enough word of mouth, it should reach the audience it deserves.

one of my favourite heston films of the 70s Leigh Taylor Young totally delicious.