![]() ![]() One day, when my mother and sisters were out running errands, my father and I were left home alone. I distinctly recall her warning my father with the exact words that it would be "too scary" for me. Soon I began to wield every child's most potent weapon of persuasion: A habit of politely yet persistently requesting (some might choose the word "nagging"), so that I might be allowed to watch "Soylent Green." My mother was firmly against this, insisting that I was much too young to see such a bleak dystopian satire. ![]() Since I had grown up hearing about a "brilliant" twist ending for "Soylent Green" from my father, I was extremely curious to watch the movie. I was a 10-year-old boy in the mid-1990s the commercialized Internet was brand new, so the days had yet to come where a quick Google or Wikipedia search could spoil all of a movie's details for impatient would-be viewers. When I first learned about "Soylent Green," I had no idea what the shocking ending would be. The final line of the film, which dramatically reveals this disgusting discovery, is so famous that the American Film Institute deemed it the 77th greatest movie quote of the 20th century: Robinson - the protagonist learns that human beings are being tricked by an evil corporation into eating human flesh. Greenberg and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young and Edward G. A 50-year-old spoiler alert: At the end of " Soylent Green" - a classic 1973 science fiction movie directed by Richard Fleischer, written by Stanley R. ![]()
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