It’s People!!! SOYLENT GREEN December 5th at Urban Chestnut

“You know, when I was a kid, food was food. Before our scientific magicians poisoned the water, polluted the soil, decimated plant and animal life.”

Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange Brew Film Series has moved! The new location is Urban Chestnut in the Grove (4465 Manchester Avenue, St. Louis 63110). This month’s film is SOYLENT GREEN. It’s this Wednesday, December 5th. The movie starts at 8pm and admission is $5.

It’s the year 2022 and the world has fallen into chaos. Greenhouse gases have lead to widespread global warming, overpopulation and the fall of living standards. Humanity has to survive with the food they manage scrape together from the oceans and waste heaps. Enter the Soylent Corporation, the foremost provider of foodstuff.

The 1973 classic SOYLENT GREEN follows  corrupt cop Frank Thorn (Charlton Heston), who investigates the death of William R. Simonson (Joseph Cotten), one of the wealthiest men in the nation. In the process we explore the world of Soylent and ponder the mysteries of just how much we’re filling to bend for such basic commodities such as food or shower or soft bed.

One of the people laying the theme thick on you is Thorn’s roommate and investigative partner Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson), a man old enough to remember the good old days when you could eat red meat, drink beer and not worry about the sun burning the skin right off your bones. Very nice role and the one with the best scenes in the film.

As a whole SOYLENT GREEN is a nostalgic cult classic from the 70s. The themes and problems have certain patina to them, but at the same time they’re closer to us than they’ve ever been. It’s only four years to the events of this film and while we’re not quite there, thankfully, the situation hasn’t exactly improved since the 70s.

SOYLENT GREEN is well worth seeing when it screens at Urban Chestnut December 5th. Good characters, interesting world and that end twist. It’s hard to ask for more.

A Facebook invite for this event can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/308484046425300/
The movie starts at 8pm and admission is $5. There will be food to order and plenty of pints of Urban Chestnut’s famous home-brewed beer.