Artificial ASS Movie

I believe that the global warming and overpopulation issue in the movie was the only similarities I could really see. Now the world and even New York doesn’t have people sleeping in the stairwells but I am sure many places such as Calcutta, cities in China and Mexico City do. The warming of the planet is another connection with the movie; the constant heat shown in the movie while many details were left out was a frightening outcome. My generation has lived their lives with the threat of global warming we do not have the nuclear war that was prevalent in the last 40 years of the 20th century but this threat is a much tougher problem. We need to figure out an answer and Soylent Green showed what could happen. While I seriously doubt a company could figure out a way to turn dead people into food because we can’t even figure out that too much greed is bad for everyone. I cannot see America turning into well the Soviet Union anytime soon. The separate classes shown in the movie resembled the how that communist system was set-up. While it was a scary movie the comparisons fall very short to anything that resembles the world today. The world has changed, until recently it was a brighter world with a lot of the dystopian ideas all seeming to not be as relevant or possible. The world has changed so much from the time period this film tries to get across the Soviet Union has broken and many of the flaws seen in society have been fixed or just passed over. The culture war has changed, the worry about nuclear war is less of a worry and our attitudes toward many things in society have little in common with causes that people believed would destroy the world or society. The global warming theme is incredible accurate though and has past true to the test of time.

Robert Foster

SOYLENT [SNORE]

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

Soylent WTF?!

Jack Gustafson


I think it is highly unrealistic to think that Soylent Green could ever be an actuality, not just because I’m basing this off of a Sci-Fi movie, but due to human nature. I find it highly unrealistic for there to be massive overcrowding, food shortages, and an environmental catastrophe without there being massive disease to weed out the human population. Without a doubt, I believe that most of the Earth would die out by the time living becomes as bad as in Soylent Green. Disease becomes the odds-on favorite for weeding out the population as there would be shit-ton of people with malnutrition running around; I’m sure people would start eating each other before there could be the illusion that they weren’t, for them that would be a godsend.

Okay. Ignoring disease and cannibal armies, we should expect law and order to completely collapse with an anarchic society occurring rather than an authoritative one. I think it is unrealistic to think that any government would be able to stay in power when there are that many people who have little faith in their government. You may point to China or North Korea but we can see that the population is controlled and conditioned to understand that their way of living is the best, but there is no way that the entire planet could be made to act like that without considering the extreme loss of life that would go along with that action.

The chances of Soylent Green actually occurring are incredibly low, even considering all the conditions that existed within the film. Perhaps I just see things in a black-and-white manner, but I think that humanity as we know it would cease to exist before anything like what happened in the film could happen. People in general are only concerned about their basic needs, so I believe that if we had massive overcrowding, overcrowding to the extent that we saw in the film, most people would support extermination of minority peoples in order to stay alive. I hate to think that I am so pessimistic about human nature, but I think that would be the natural outcome, that or vigilante groups doing what the government wouldn’t do.