Unable to afford their own place, homeless people build makeshift shelters with whatever part of wood or metal they can find, creating a disturbing background of poverty and desperation. Set in New York City, Soylent Green's story slowly unfolds while Fleischer fleshes out his disturbing vision of the future. Loosely based on the 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, Soylent Green imagines a world ravaged by overpopulation and the destruction of natural resources. And the most interesting aspect of Richard Fleischer’s sci-fi thriller is how it echoes some of the same concerns we still have today. That's precisely the case of Soylent Green, which in 1973 tried to guess what would happen in 2022. More than often, though, we imagine the terrible scenarios that might happen if we don't change the destructive patterns we insist on repeating. Sometimes, this thought exercise leads us to imagine the wonderful technologies that human minds are yet to develop. Science fiction is the place where we look at the present and try to anticipate the future.
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