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Soylent Green (1973) More at IMDbPro »

It is important to note that this film brings Charlton Heston and Edward G.Robinson together once again post the Ten Commandments with Thorn(Heston) seeking information from his "book" Sol(Edward G.) to maintain his tenuous job as a cop in a mostly unemployed city. New York in the future is polluted, over populated and unemployed. The pollution that envelops the city causes the temperature and humidity to become oppressive consuming all its citizens except the rich who live in concrete fortresses enjoying the last vestages of the late 20th century, fresh meat, salad,strawberries,cigarettes,Scotch and as Sol beams in irony an apple that brings him to a tearful realization that this is the end of his era. Thorn is assigned to investigate the assassination of a high ranking member of the Soylent corporation which leads him to one of the concrete towers of the rich where he confisgates the "evidence" that Sol and Thorn enjoy in a banquet back in their over crowded apartment building.

Soylent Green as a food source for the starving populas becomes the symbol and when it runs out there is only one alternative to protest which is twarted by dump trucks regarding the humans as no more than trash that needs to be cleaned from the street.

The relationship between Thorn and Sol is the center piece of this movie, Sol is the connection with a past that Thorn has never known and Sol is a character from an era that has disappeared among Classical music, pastoral fields,clear running streams and an age that Thorn has never known or will know. "I didn't realise" "Isn't it beautiful" "I love you Thorn" "I love you Sol" Soylent Green is the last film that Edward G. was to make he died days after his final scene. Edward G. Robinson was a victim of the McCarthy era and work was difficult to find after he appeared in the hearings, Charlton Heston was the President of the Actors Guild and I can't help but think that Chuck gave Robinson his final screen hurrah. "I love you Thorn" Edward G. "I love you Sol" Chuck Heston. Soylent Green isnt really people it's about what are we as people and how we will shape our future.