I am not certain was actually more disastrous the potential devastation wrought by the wholly unrealistic and fictional "Soylent Green:" scenario, or the the film in holistic form.
The underwhelming and quite frankly tacky portrayal of environmental dystopia in "Soylent Green," was yawn-inducing and quite uninspiring. In fact, the entirety of the film I was literally engaging in self talk and saying "is there ever going to be any action, or are we going to continue to focus on the bullshit, closet scene of the frazzled hair elderly man and the obnoxiously immoral rent-a-cop?
Based on the mere idea alone of the sort of "absolute anarchy" power depicted within the film, the movie reiterates its artificiality. Any individual who has studied anarchy can and would conclude that the essence of a nation being devoid of a government, for instance, Somalia, is a chaotic and lawless iteration of Thomas Hobbes' "State of Nature," in which individuals are unable to govern themselves and all hell ensues. "Soylent Green," inaccurately casts anarchy in the light of modern monarchy-in which the majority of citizens' lives are dictated by a scripted, and Orwellian central institution.
Truthfully, I searched for the "environmental" portion of the movie, between the half-ass love triangle, horrible decor and focus on the two nimrods tediously climbing over the homeless, the film's actual base was ostensibly non-existent.
The Malthus theory of disease being the preeminent method in maintaining population, is clearly ignored by the film. I understand that "Soylent Green" is a piece of science fiction, yet science fiction is generally not completely liberated from existential reality.
Overall, I believe that human nature and cyclically inherent processes would preclude the sort of doomsday, farcical garbage portrayed by "Soylent Green."
Corey Scott-Vincent-William Dutra
I don't get your comment on the "Malthus theory of disease being the preeminent method in maintaining population". If that were the case, then China wouldn't need a 1-child policy and India would be a nice country with a population the size of the United States. Haiti and the Congo would not have population problems and poverty. Most of Africa would be nice European countries with first world economies.
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