The thread returns from the dead to report on our viewing of a classic: Soylent Green.
I could have sworn I must have seen bits and pieces of this on TV and such, but none of it was familiar - in fact, I had a mental image of the last scene that was totally not the last scene of this movie.
It was a lot better than I expected. It is a shame that they didn't realize that people in 2022 would not still have 1970s haircuts - made it hard on the suspension of disbelief. But otherwise, not bad at all. Would make an excellent double feature with 'An Inconvenient Truth' as long as you were willing to handle, like, the rash of suicides and such.
But here's the amazing story: The Technical Staff did not know the punch line. Fortunately I didn't accidentally give it away till almost the end - and at that point the movie was cheating anyway, commiting that unforgivable sin in a mystery plot where it is seen that the main character learns a crucial fact but the fact itself is not revealed to the audience which has otherwise been privy to everything that that character knows.
Anyway, at that point I said something like "Authors who do that kind of thing should be made into soylent green" and then he figured out what was going on.
He said later that he must have known a long time ago because it vaguely rang a bell. But he didn't know when he was watching most of the movie. How fortunate. I wonder how few people have had that experience.
Anyone ever read the book it was based on, by the way?
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