Commentary
Along with polyester leisure suits and lines at the gas station, the 1970s is remembered for moralizing dystopian movies, most of which blame the global catastrophes facing the principal characters on corporate greed or excessive procreation; like “Soylent Green,” whose title refers to a government mass-produced food whose sinister ingredients turn out to have nothing to do with soy; “Rollerball,” in which a corporate-run death sport is the opium of the masses; and “Silent Running,” in which we see the last forests of a totally synthesized planet earth relegated to the outer reaches of the Solar System awaiting orders either to return or be discarded and destroyed as obsolete.
