tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093241236139423281.post1193784555599166857..comments2024-02-18T03:30:35.288-08:00Comments on Dusty Video Box: Do androids eat electric sheep? Soylent Green (1973)Paul Stocktonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10771850213840406163noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093241236139423281.post-7125279875192258832019-04-01T21:09:35.093-07:002019-04-01T21:09:35.093-07:00“Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human di...“Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears.” - Isaac Asimov<br /><br />“They’re an odd couple and we’re never quite sure of their connection”<br /><br />Here, people are things: Shirl is “furniture,” and Sol is a “book,” a human library-computer. (Brock Peters tells Thorn he’ll need a new “book” soon.) And of course, in the end we find out what other “thing” they are also…<br /><br />[C Heston and E G Robinson went back a long way: Mr Robinson was to be Dr Zaius in ‘Planet of the Apes,’ but ill health prevented it. Here, at Sol’s passing Mr Heston’s tears are genuine: Mr Robinson was in fact already dying, of cancer.]Baron_Wastehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196038182565745864noreply@blogger.com