nyc and 2022 represent the greenhouse effect and vanish ocean and grind unemployment and scarcity of water and power and food . and new york population have top 40 million . this be a little gem of a picture and not least because a resource deplete future be a reality for u 21st century citizen . the low budget opening title of this movie be great represent set to music and a low tech tape slide sequence compose entirely of archive still from the dawn of photography right up to 1973 and depict an unspoiled american pastoral develop into a polluted and crowd hell in less than 2 minute . succinct and unambiguous and it truly memorable . budget limitation be also behind rather unimaginative cinematography and other constraint and at odds with the story brilliant premise . the police station sequence be like an episode of some 70 tv detective show and and the other interior set look basic at best . the budget probably all go on try to futurise the soylent executive chelsea west apartment with state of the art goody and mean the other costume be perfunctory and some establish shot be bizarrely underpopulated and the daytime exterior seemingly all shot through a smoke filter . the memorable scene where sol and thorn ( charlton heston ) share a meal of expensive and rare food neatly summarise their society represent they enjoy real bourbon and lettuce and celery and tomato and apple and and beef and and we really sense their lip smack appreciation of someone else wealthy privilege . robinson pivotal death scene and in which his character be willingly euthenased at a place call home and depict him immerse in image of the world once beautiful flora and fauna a he remember them and beautifully contrast with the jaundiced thorn dawn realization that the future have be bankrupt and among other horror . this be one smart film and and it core message be a pertinent today a it be in the early 70 . yes and i know be not eat the dead yet and but with our resource sap longevity and spiral poverty gap and corporate global capitalism and unchecked habitat destruction lead to climate change and the lasting prediction of soylent green may come to pass .