By the way, the dystopian film Soleil Vert is set in 2022. Soleil Vert, a famous science fiction film, dates from 1973. Adapted from the eponymous novel, it presents an environmental dystopia. Enough to start 2022 with joy - but above all with full awareness of the ecological emergency.
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| By the way, the dystopian film Soleil Vert is set in 2022 |
Here we are in 2022 and the world looks more like science fiction than ever. No sci-fi movie predicted exactly what our modern world would look like. Many of them, however, had identified a few aspects that were already at stake in their time, and whose presence has grown.
Soleil vert - film 1973
The famous Blade Runner, for example, was in 2019: that year, there were no intelligent robots (AIs are stupid), but the cyberpunk fiction had nevertheless scented the technological and consumerist society that was to come.
An entirely different and particularly cult SF work will take place in 2022: Soleil Vert.
What is Soleil Vert about?
This film, directed in 1973 by Richard Fleischer, is an adaptation of the equally important novel by Harry Harrison. Where the action takes place in 1999 in the book, the film takes the year 2022 as a frame to move further away from the era of broadcast.
Soleil vert - film 1973
This is a dystopian novel close to a form of pre-apocalypse. The dystopia is environmental: global warming, due to greenhouse gas emissions, is extreme. This causes a permanent heatwave, the death of the oceans, the depletion of natural resources. In an already crowded world, these deleterious effects of global warming have serious social consequences - shortages, high poverty, and increased inequality.
These shortages affect both water and food, leading to the manufacture of artificial foods. But, in the film, this fabrication is based on a very dark - and, let's say it, rather creepy - secret. It is the death of a privileged rich man that will lead a cop, Thorn, to approach this truth.
Ecological issues at the heart of this decade
We clearly do not live in the dystopia of Soleil Vert, but we live in a decade where ecological issues are unquestionably urgent. Climate change is increasingly causing increased heatwaves and climatic anomalies. And the oceans are clearly not spared, just like the biodiversity that inhabits them.
In terms of social inequality, it would be presumptuous to believe that climate change has no consequences yet: a report published in 2020, by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, showed that climate change is in the making. source of increasing violence against women, to which we must add that we are not all equal in the face of heatwaves.
Clearly, like any dystopia, Soleil Vert is neither there to depress us nor to describe very exactly to the comma the world that awaits us. It is a work of fiction dedicated to the here and now, and which, more than ever, warns of risks that are sometimes in gestation and sometimes already on the increase.
That Soleil Vert takes place in 2022 should not accentuate an anxiety-provoking feeling, but rather remind us of exactly what we want to avoid. Because the 2020s are those of the greatest climate challenges in our history.
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