![]() ![]() The film and its sweaty star, Charlton Heston, is entrenched in our meme-ified collective consciousness, so much so that the joke has come full circle in Soylent, a meal-replacement powder company beloved by tech bros and funded by venture capitalists. Books like Claire Kohda’s literary vampire novel Woman, Eating, and my own, A Certain Hunger, have likewise dived face-first into people-eating.Įven if you’ve never seen Soylent Green, you know its titular food is made from people. ![]() Television has captivated viewers with the shadowy, pagan-influenced campfire cannibalism of Yellowjackets, and it has engrossed watchers with the grossness of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Over the last 12 months, the silver screen has served up billionaire cannibals dining on vacuum-packed morsels of human meat in Fresh, and it’s dished out hardscrabble eaters finding love and entrails in Bones and All. Here’s a weird thing: Soylent Green, the 50-year-old dystopian sci-fi flick, is set in 2022, a year that has exploded with cannibal content. ![]()
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