• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Honestly I watched Soylent Green about 3 years ago and I walked away fucking broken. Everyone remembers the whole bit about "soylent green is people" but if you take into account the people depicted you see a horrifying future. A man with a M-16 dozes off while guarding a stairwell. The stairwell is filled with starving children sleeping together for warmth, piled up under the barrel of the gun.

    • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      The whole furniture concept threw me when I was watching. Main character was such a dick to Shirl.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        yeah that was fucked up too, the casual misogyny was maybe par for the 70s but it was gross to me, objectifying until they are literal objects, maybe I can see the artistic idea behind it but eh, still gross, there are better ways of getting the idea across