Trending 'Soylent Green' after NYT asks why cannibalism is so trendy
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An NYT article has Twitter buzzing about a question about cannibalism, and why it's so trendy now... ominously reminding people of an old movie that only touched on this topic.
The article published by the Saturday newspaper is titled "A Taste for Cannibalism?" …and the Times tweet promoting it reads… “Cannibalism has a time and a place. Some recent books, movies, and shows suggest the time has come. Can you stand it?"
The whole premise explores why eating people has appeared so frequently in our pop culture in recent years - whether in more recent movies like "Raw" or "Fresh", shows like "Santa Clarita Diet" and " Yellowjackets". .. or even recent novels that delve deeper into the subject.
It's an interesting read – different theories are mooted, such as cannibalism taken up in fiction in response to anxiety over the pandemic, climate change, food shortages, capitalism, eating disorders , politics or just the old-fashioned feelings of society. taboos.
But as The Times also notes, cannibalism in the media is nothing new... with depictions of it dating back to ancient times - but more recently in films like "The Silence of the Lambs ", or perhaps most prominently in 1973's Soylent Green'... which is all the rage right now.
Naturally, the memes fly... with some jokingly pointing out that "SG" is actually set in 2022, and all that cannibalistic content could be a prediction of what's to come.
Of course, it's a crazy speech. But the Internet is still losing its mind. If the day comes, however, we start eating our own...at least do it with dignity, folks.
MGM
An NYT article has Twitter buzzing about a question about cannibalism, and why it's so trendy now... ominously reminding people of an old movie that only touched on this topic.
The article published by the Saturday newspaper is titled "A Taste for Cannibalism?" …and the Times tweet promoting it reads… “Cannibalism has a time and a place. Some recent books, movies, and shows suggest the time has come. Can you stand it?"
The whole premise explores why eating people has appeared so frequently in our pop culture in recent years - whether in more recent movies like "Raw" or "Fresh", shows like "Santa Clarita Diet" and " Yellowjackets". .. or even recent novels that delve deeper into the subject.
It's an interesting read – different theories are mooted, such as cannibalism taken up in fiction in response to anxiety over the pandemic, climate change, food shortages, capitalism, eating disorders , politics or just the old-fashioned feelings of society. taboos.
But as The Times also notes, cannibalism in the media is nothing new... with depictions of it dating back to ancient times - but more recently in films like "The Silence of the Lambs ", or perhaps most prominently in 1973's Soylent Green'... which is all the rage right now.
Naturally, the memes fly... with some jokingly pointing out that "SG" is actually set in 2022, and all that cannibalistic content could be a prediction of what's to come.
Of course, it's a crazy speech. But the Internet is still losing its mind. If the day comes, however, we start eating our own...at least do it with dignity, folks.
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