It’s 2022 and we are in New York. This isn’t one of the dark COVID-19 pandemic years and its associated mandates that paralyzed the lives of millions of New Yorkers, but the setting of Richard Fleischer’s classic dystopian sci-fi thriller Soylent Green that was released about 50 years earlier. It was even darker and more terrifying than the chronological 2022 in the real world.

Before diving into the movie’s analysis, a special spoiler alert is due for readers who haven’t seen the movie yet. It’s a great and an important movie so please stop reading and watch it first. Reading this essay would be more fun and meaningful with the key movie details secured in your memory. Also important is the declaration that I personally haven’t read Harry Harrison’s 1966 sci-f...

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