Westworld & Soylent Green

Curzon Sunday Double-Bill
·Curzon SOHO, 12noon, Sunday 2nd Feb

Westworld:
Set in an amusement park for rich holidaymakers. The park provides its customers a way to live out their fantasies through the use of robots that provide anything they want. Two of the vacationers choose a wild west adventure. However, after a computer breakdown, they find that they are now being stalked by a rogue robot gun-slinger.

Yul Brynner's lead robot is a terrific aggressive character, it does not speak or make exaggerated movements: it's chilling, fixed stare and determined gait towards its intended victim are very effective.

Runtime: 88 mins
Country: USA (1973)
Language: English
Director: Michael Crichton

 
   

Soylent Green
In 2022, earth's face has completely changed. New York's population, for example, has grown to 40 million mouths to feed. The greenhouse effect has made the temperature nearly unbearable, and people are kept in the cities by law.

Detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) investigates the murder of an official from the Soylent corporation, which feeds the masses their creations: Soylent red, yellow, or, even more nutritious, green.

He soon uncovers something unpalatable about the murder and the product!

Runtime: 97 mins
Country: USA (1973)
Language: English
Director: Richard Fleischer