Colour, Sound and Other Symbols in "Soylent Green" by Richard Fleischer

Frequent polarizations are not the only way the dysfunctional world of "Soylent Green" is vividly recreated for the audience; there are also individual signs, or symbols, lacking opposites, whose connotations are very different from their literal meanings. These connotations include emotional overtones, subjective interpretations and socio-cultural values. Because of their ability to change over time, signs create a unique chain of references that can be broken down to provide an even bigger insight into the …

…x-drive is gone, the food is stale, and the hot water is cold. Like Thorn, the audience is allowed to experience a utopia far more seductive than Chelsea Towers West, but only briefly, because that moment instantly becomes a memory of something that never was. The director uses symbols a great deal in order to put across the message of his film: utopia is nothing more than the memory of a simulation of a memory.