1973! Charlton Heston in Soylent Green. I don’t know why I’d think of a movie about a bleak dystopian future right now, oh wait! The death and destruction being spread by China’s gift to the world, the Kung Flu. The year in the movie is 2022. Our government isn’t quite there, yet. They’re not actively scooping up people and dumping them in garbage trucks. Well, other than LA I mean. Cigarettes were really expensive in the movie, that’s why his detective character would kill for a wealthy homicide case. You got your pick of the booze, the cigarettes, the food in the fridge. Speaking of food, that was the point of the whole movie. They’d run out. So they began a rather drastic recycling program: people.

[Its the year 2048: “Hillary announces run for the White House. Star Wars fans excited about this weekend’s release of the latest Star Wars movie.”]