"You've got to tell them!"

Soylent Green - after hearing the infamous line "Soylent green is people." Who could not want to watch the movie now that its premise had been revealed. But in reality that is only part of the movie. You get the big twist but you don't get the lead in which is actually interesting.

Set in 2022 in New York, the world is grossly overpopulated as seen by Thorn (Charlton Heston) who walks through people who are slumped/asleep from the bottom of the stairs to the top in his apartment building. The world is experiencing global warming to such a degree that it is always warm, unemployment is rampant, and water is scarce. In order to feed the populace a company has created soylent yellow and red, and the new very popular solyent green supposedly developed from sea kelp/plankton - basically an oceanic food source.

The movie is actually a detective story. The murder of a wealthy business man whose death is investigated by Thorn. In the future cops are corrupt and women are either poor, dying, or furniture. Furniture are pretty women who provide entertainment for men and all they do apparently is wait at home look pretty, have sex with their "tenants" and occasionally corrupt cops, and enjoy whatever luxuries their men can provide. This movie had more to offer than I thought. I'd recommend it as a rental or tv view if one is the mood for an interesting view on the future.