Week 9 Blog 1 (Movie Blog 1)

My group watched Soylent Green on Saturday. That was a weird movie. Much of it didn’t make sense, as in it didn’t make sense that human society would evolve (or rather devolve) into such a society. People can be books, or furniture. That sounds more like slavery than life. What’s the point of a “Book?” To sort through actual books and find information or something? Why can’t the people do it themselves? And the “Furniture.” Are they a new type of prostitute that hires themselves out for a room? That’s messed up.
How did many of the characters get so healthy and strong looking? They probably ate a diet of mostly Soylent-whatever. There’s not a lot of nutritional value to decomposed dead people I don’t think.
For the record, as soon as the “Book” character went into the pleasant place to die, I said he must eventually be turned into Soylent Green. No, I had never seen the movie. It just made sense. The people running the place seemed to be giving the “Book” very nice treatment with no monetary gain. They had to use his body for something, and Soylent Green just seemed like the right type of thing.