Then, the killer shoots Thorn in the leg before being crushed by the hydraulic shovel of a police riot-control vehicle. Thorn manages to locate the killer and throw him to the ground. The killer shoots three times at Thorn, but misses, his shots accidentally striking several innocent bystanders in the crowd. As Thorn tries to control a violent throng during a Soylent Green shortage riot, he is attacked by the assassin who killed Simonson. He soon becomes aware that an unknown stalker is following him. Santini, Thorn's superiors order him to end the investigation, but he continues, fearing that he will lose his job if he files a false report. Soon after, the priest is murdered in the confessional by Fielding, Simonson's former bodyguard. Because of the sanctity of the confessional, the visibly exhausted priest can only hint to Thorn at the contents of the confession. With the help of Simonson's concubine Shirl, his investigation leads to a priest whom Simonson had visited shortly before his death. Simonson, a board member of the Soylent Corporation, which he suspects was an assassination. Thorn is called to investigate the murder of the wealthy and influential William R. NYPD detective Robert Thorn lives with his aged friend Sol Roth, a brilliant former college professor and police researcher (referred to as a "Book"). Their mainstay products, Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow are a staple food, and the latest product, a new, more nutritious and flavorful wafer derived from plankton, Soylent Green, is introduced to the populace. The majority poor live in squalor, haul water from communal spigots, and eat highly processed food wafers made by a single large food processing firm, the Soylent Corporation. Usually, they include concubines (who are referred to as "furniture" and have no human rights, and are passed from one apartment owner to the next). The homes of the elite are fortified, with security systems and bodyguards for their tenants. New York City has a population of 40 million (out of a global 20 billion), and only the elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water, and natural food in walled-off "corpo-villages" patrolled by armed guards. In 1973, it won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.īy 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, global warming, and pollution have caused ecocide, leading to severe worldwide shortages of food, water, and housing, bringing human civilization to the brink of collapse. The story follows a murder investigation in a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity caused by the greenhouse effect, with the resulting pollution, depleted resources, poverty, and overpopulation. It is loosely based on the 1966 science-fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, with a plot that combines elements of science fiction and a police procedural. Soylent Green is a 1973 American ecological dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G.
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