Soylent Green story
Loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, it combines both police procedural and science fiction genres; the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman and a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity due to the greenhouse effect, resulting in suffering from pollution, poverty, overpopulation, euthanasia and depleted resources.
9 total · 4 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| facing a conspiracy | major | Thorne uncovered a vast government/corporate conspiracy whereby the food staple Soylent Green was actually made from human beings, and not plankton as was conventionally assumed. |
| human overpopulation | major | The film is set in a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity due to the greenhouse effect, resulting in overpopulation. |
| overpopulated dystopia | major | The film is set in a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity due to the greenhouse effect, resulting in overpopulation. |
| unethical business practices | major | The Soylent Corporation was secretly feeding half the world with human derived nourishment. |
| euthanasia | minor | Old people were given the chance to enjoy the beauties of nature for a short period in exchange for them being euthanized. |
| global warming | minor | There were year round high temperatures owing to the greenhouse effect. |
| pollution in society | minor | Dying oceans and year-round humidity due to the greenhouse effect resulted in people suffering from pollution. |
| romantic love | minor | Thorne and Shirl. |
| social inequality | minor | The lives of the spaciously living, fresh meat and vegetable eating rich were juxtaposed with the squalid conditions under which ordinary people lived. |