This is one of the best sci-fi movies out there, and the ending might make you lose your appetite for a while

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Adapted from the book by Harry Harrison and directed by Richard Fleischer in the early 1970s, Soleil Vert is one of the science fiction classics we have seen in our lifetime. Timely and more relevant than ever 50 years after its release, it depicts a dystopian society (set in… 2022).

After several decades of excessive industrialization, the Earth is suffering from massive overpopulation and the depletion of natural resources: two problems that society tries to respond to using voluntary euthanasia and the production of synthetic food products (including the mysterious green sun) by the company Soylent. industries.

In this explosive context (also marked by food price riots and violent repression), Thorne, a police officer played by Charlton Heston, investigates the murder of William Simonson, one of Soylent’s directors.

In addition to its inflexible and unfortunately visionary vision of the evolution of an increasingly suffocating world, Soleil Vert also marked the memories of the audience with its reassuring final revelation and the terrible secret that the hero discovers in the final moments of the film.

If you haven’t seen it yet, I suggest you go ahead and continue reading only after discovering Soleil Vert.

After following the investigation to the end (and almost being eliminated himself), Thorne goes to find his friend Solly. The latter, who seems to have unlocked the secrets of the Soylent company, voluntarily requests euthanasia and experiences his last moments during an absolutely moving sequence, where there used to be an image of the Earth as it is projected on the screen.

Before dying, Solly promises Thorne to find out the truth and prove it to the world. It is there, following the truck that takes Soly’s body to the crematorium, that the policeman discovers a terrible reality: his friend, like the other euthanized people, is not cremated, but taken to the Soylent Industries factory. Serves as a key element in the production of Soleil Vert, which is used to supply the population.

“The green sun is human flesh!”

A revelation that a damaged Thorne tries his best to reveal to his boss, then to the crowd around him, leaving the audience unsure whether he will achieve his goals.

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