Blog 4

Liam Breslin
Dr. Esa
Reel Food
2/23/20
Blog 4
Have you ever eaten a steak that was so good, it brought you back to a very happy time in your life? The first time you had eaten a steak. Your favorite moments with your Mom, eating with your family. Soylent Green is a sci-fi film that focuses heavily on its futuristic setting influencing its characters desperation for food. Within the film, I personally feel as though the food within the film (the real food not the decomposed people) represents nostalgia and reminiscence. 
In the first couple minutes of the film, Thorn is tasked with investigating the murder of the one of the Soylent companies rich executives. Upon his return home to his dillipated apartment which he shares with his older companion, Sol, Thorn brings back different things including real beef. Before this point we here Sol reminiscing about the old days when he was younger, in which you could get real food so freely and easily, and how now in 2022 all there is to eat is the Soylent foods like Soylent Yellow or the new Soylent Green. Noted in Futuristic Foodways, by Laurel Forster, Sol is overwhelmed by Thorns bounty that he begins to genuinely tear up at the sight of the beef. Sol is being brought all the way back to those younger days, where food was easily accessible, real (not made of people), delicious, and significant to society. The following meal that he and Thorn cooked and ate, a beef stew with salad and apple, was eaten without sharing a single word, until Sol mentions that he “hasn’t eaten like this in years”. Forster also mentions that this meal that Thorn and Sol share together is supposed to be emulant of how life used to be like for the average New Yorker, and that it wasn't always a place where people were secretly eating other people. 

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  1. Liam BreslinFebruary 23, 2020 at 6:24 PM

    Liam Breslin

    Dr. Esa

    Reel Food

    2/23/20

    Blog 4

    Have you ever eaten a steak that was so good, it brought you back to a very happy time in your life? The first time you had eaten a steak. Your favorite moments with your Mom, eating with your family. Soylent Green is a sci-fi film that focuses heavily on its futuristic setting influencing its characters desperation for food. Within the film, I personally feel as though the food within the film (the real food not the decomposed people) represents nostalgia and reminiscence.
    In the first couple minutes of the film, Thorn is tasked with investigating the murder of the one of the Soylent companies rich executives. Upon his return home to his dillipated apartment which he shares with his older companion, Sol, Thorn brings back different things including real beef. Before this point we here Sol reminiscing about the old days when he was younger, in which you could get real food so freely and easily, and how now in 2022 all there is to eat is the Soylent foods like Soylent Yellow or the new Soylent Green. Noted in Futuristic Foodways, by Laurel Forster, Sol is overwhelmed by Thorns bounty that he begins to genuinely tear up at the sight of the beef. Sol is being brought all the way back to those younger days, where food was easily accessible, real (not made of people), delicious, and significant to society. The following meal that he and Thorn cooked and ate, a beef stew with salad and apple, was eaten without sharing a single word, until Sol mentions that he “hasn’t eaten like this in years”. Forster also mentions that this meal that Thorn and Sol share together is supposed to be emulant of how life used to be like for the average New Yorker, and that it wasn't always a place where people were secretly eating other people.


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