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Originally Posted by JohnMorris
Many years ago I was in the audience of a talk by Harry Harrison, and the topic of "Make Room! Make Room!" and "Soylent Green" came up.
He absolutely _hated_ that film, and excoriated whoever was responsible for that twist. He named the name, but it escapes me now. However I do recall him noting that whoever it was "rapes puppies at midnight".
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I haven't read the book yet, so I'll reserve judgement on him. But in the film at least, the twist is completely justified by the rest of the story. And it's such a punch because as you see in the background what's happening to the world, the twist is logical and maybe even the best of the bad options available.