1973 · sci-fi · thriller
Soylent Green
Directed by Richard Fleischer1h 37m1973
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
Our read: Soylent Green (1973) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
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