a review of 绿色食品

Soylent Green was on my to-see list for a long time, and it didn't disappoint me. The subject matter is impressively visionary, predicting an overpopulated dystopian future where nature and fresh food have become extremely scarce due to environmental disasters caused by mankind. There are clearly Orwellian elements of totalitarian oppression, and there are also ingredients reminiscent of Blade Runner, such as a cynical cop as the main character in an environmentally fucked-up, overcrowded future. Interestingly, Blade Runner was made nine years after Soylent Green, but the novel Blade Runner was based on — Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep — was published in 1968, so one might think that Soylent Green was inspired by that, but it was based on Harry Harrison's 1966 Sci-Fi novel 'Make Room! Make Room!', so you might conclude that both this novel and Soylent Green have probably helped paving the road to Blade Runner. Charlton Heston gives a solid performance as the cop who gradually discovers a dirty secret behind the dystopian society, and last but not least, the youthful Leigh Taylor-Young is a true feast for the eyes.