August 25, 2008
Soylent Green (1973)
Should I see it?
Yes.
Yes.
Phew! This is not age well. If you can see past the antique sets and fashions you will find a slightly heavy handed but still enjoyable story. Although the technical flaws of the movie may serve to keep many younger viewers away. Sure, if this were released today, it would be roundly criticized as over-agendized* posturing, but there's something about this old flick that I found worth the hassle.
Charlton Heston leads this film about a police detective who uncovers a horrible conspiracy in a world destroyed by Global Warming (yes, they were whining about it back then too). Heston gives his usual grand style of performance and generally upstages everyone else around him. His broad style is a little too large for this role and he gets in the way of some of the scenes. Overall, his performance works and the film doesn't suffer too greatly from his excesses.
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Labels: Charlton Heston, Chuck Connors, Edward G Robinson, film, Joseph Cotton, movie review, science fiction
posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 6:00 PM
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2 Comments:
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Heh, heh that's funny to me. This is a pretty good story about how we ought to be aware of the results of our actions and then show courage of conviction. 'Intrepid' should never have been reduced to the name of a car,
Scott: Phew! This is not age well.
I love the riot police in their silver spray-painted football helmets. The movie still works, though. In terms of narrative, Soylent Green is much better than the more recent movie Children Of Men.
Not to follow this tangent too far, but the PD James novel Children Of Men is quite good, entirely different from the film "adaptation," and worth a read. And it features an important plot element involving elderly people voluntarily submitting to be put to death by the state, much like Soylent Green. And I think that now I've come full circle.
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