Soylent Green
Director: Richard Fleischer
Year Released: 1973
Rating: 2.0
An unethical cop (Charlton Heston) investigates the death of a rich man with ties to a local food-manufacturing company while Edward G. Robinson stays in a dirty apartment doing research. Gives a cursory glance to the impending ecological crisis while also throwing in commentary about overpopulation, misogyny (beautiful women go 'along with' apartments that are rented - they're actually referred to as 'furniture') and Communism, but it's all done in haste: like Westworld, it's trying to be both political and action packed, arriving with potential but leaving a void where the intellect belongs. The 'secret' to the movie - and the title 'food' - is so famous that you probably know everything there is to know about the movie without having to actually watch it (I recall Douglas Coupland mentioning it in one of his books).
