Soylent Green Film Analysis

Soylent Green This movie incorporates many social concepts in it including structural functionalism and symbolic interactionist theories. Structural fundamentalism is macro-level approach where all parts in society have to work together to be successful. For example, in education the students and teachers have to work together, the teachers with their co-workers, all the workers with the school, and the list could go on and on. Although, if one part of this system fails, it all will crumble. In Soylent Green the structural functionalism is shown between the media and the government, the government and the workers,the workers and the common people and so on and so forth. The government have to keep this secret from the people and although some of the workers may know what happens they have to keep it a secret too. The government was afraid this secret was going to be spread which is why they had to assassinate William Simpson before he told someone about it and their whole way of living was destroyed. A similar theory known as symbolic interactionism was shown in Soylent Green. This is where people bond through social interaction through a small group of people. It is how we give meaning to the world throughout our interaction with
One of the saddest parts of this whole movie was when Soloman started crying because he had finally saw beef again. It showed how controlling the government had come to be and how little freedom and choices they actually had. Another scene, where Soloman was about to die and was being shown all these clips of nature like they were something special and amazing when in reality they’re typical things we see everyday. This showed me to not take simple things for granted. The last and most disturbing part in this whole movie was finding out what Soylent Green was made of. Even the thought that the government would stoop that low was especially terrifying to