Karlysymon
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I’ve never watched the film and isn’t there a recent version with Ryan Reynolds(??) although iam not so sure about that. Anyway, I decided to read about it and was creeped out, given the present times.
On the film’s wiki page, under the “Critical Response” section, standing out to me was this film critic’s response:
Penelope Gilliatt of The New Yorker was negative, writing, "This pompously prophetic thing of a film hasn't a brain in its beanbag. Where is democracy? Where is the popular vote? Where is women's lib? Where are the uprising poor, who would have suspected what was happening in a moment?"[14]
It is almost 50yrs since the film’s release and just 2yrs shy of the year in which it was set. At this point in time when meat plants are shut down and there is talk of lab-grown meat and ‘resetting the table”, UBI that only let’s you purchase approved “foods”....isn’t it prudent to ask, like she did so many years ago, how democracy, the popular vote, women’s lib etc haven’t stopped the corporate takeover of food? Was she overestimating the power of those mechanisms and movements?
And that isn’t to say that “Soylent Green” hasn’t been happening in some form in the last decades. Of concern though in the present are the huge ramifications of feeding humans with stuff made out genetically modified humans.
In regard to chemtrails, we are often told that we’ve never seen real blue skies, so iam guessing the same is going to be said of food in the decades to come. While thy have their seed vault in Norway.
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