"Soylent Green is People!"

[vince_moon]

As I watched the film 'Soylent Green', I thought to myself, "This could very well be the future we're headed to." In fact, we're already seeing things just like this in the modern world. Shortages of water and food, air pollution, extreme poverty, overpopulation, this movie is showing us nothing new.

Comments

[evil_little_dog]

Science fiction is so good for that sort of thing.

[vince_moon]

I know, it can nag you about something without being too preachy.

[evil_little_dog]

Or scare you, depending on what you're watching/reading. :D

[vince_moon]

After the movie I turned out all the lights except one and started thinking about a career in environmental science. :)

[evil_little_dog]

Hee!

Have you ever seen the movie, A Boy and His Dog? (Link takes you to my review of the novella, but I've seen the movie, too, and the black humor in it made me giggle perhaps more than a teenaged girl should've).

[vince_moon]

The link doesn't work. :)

The goat shows up and says the link might be broken.

[evil_little_dog]

There.

This is what happens when I forget to check on my link and make sure the whole address copied. :D

[vince_moon]

This sounds interesting, I'll check it out.

Thanks!

[evil_little_dog]

You're welcome.

The movie was more...humorous? I guess. Black humor, at least. I can't remember if it came out before or after Mad Max, but it has that kind of feel to it.

The novella, on the other hand, is a little bleaker, but also has it's moment's of humor.

[vince_moon]

After looking into it, I've read other stuff by this guy. I really like his work. "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" is so creepy.

[evil_little_dog]

I always loved, "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Tik-Tok Man". I read a lot of Ellison's work over the years, mostly because I collected series of the "Hugo Winner Novella/Short Stories" stuff, and Ellison won a lot of those awards. (I might've been younger than you when I started reading those; I remember Mom got me into the Science Fiction Book Club and pointed out what she thought I ought to read to get my best bang for my buck (as I had to save up to give her money for the checks she wrote for my addiction).

[vince_moon]

So she really encouraged you to read?

[evil_little_dog]

I can't answer that. *laugh* Mom said I wanted to read as soon as I realized there were stories in books, and I was very disappointed she wouldn't teach me before I went to kindergarten. That was my main reason for wanting to go to school - learning to read.

I always had a library of my own books - she picked them up all sorts of places - and Mom would check me out ten books a week (the limit allowed from the library) and I'd read all of them at least once before she took them back. She ordered me books, too; science books, and mythology and things like that.

[vince_moon]

That's great, reading at a young age is such an invaluable thing.

[evil_little_dog]

It is.

I keep thinking, if I could figure out how to record via disc, I'd read for my nieces - I am pretty good at voices, and I love kids' books (and YA books, and SF, and F, and animal books, and...) and I think it'd be fun to play with that sort of thing, doing podfics and give them the same books to 'read along'.