A Truth Too Terrible To Live With With Danny McCarthy And Nicky P

Getting toward the end of the film we arrive at the separate ways both Saul and Detective Thorn arrive at the horrific realization of the film. Saul brings the books he received from Thorn to the exchange, a group of individuals who had careers like doctors and lawyers in the old world. They come to a realization that whatever they have been eating it cant be plankton because the oceanographic reports show there is not near enough in the oceans for the population. They look at the world around them and there is only one alternative available.

Now that Saul knows that their life is a horror he decides he wants to go "home." Home is an assisted suicide facility that surrounds the willing participant with classical music and images of the beautiful natural world that used to be. The key to the scene is the beautiful images of the world as it was, set against the images of Earth's destruction we started the film with. Thorn arrives just in time to watch his friend die, but moreover, he sees the world his friend could never capture in words for him. The emotional moment sets up the final act of the movie where Thorn finds his final resting place is to be ground into food.

As an observation, we note the victim of the original crime was so affected by the knowledge of Soylent's secret that he needed to confess to a priest. This is not a place a person of wealth would ever be found in this world. Churches exist as homeless shelters in this world of overpopulation. The priest is the first person to choose death over the knowledge of the secret. This makes us speculate on what happens after the final scene of the movie.

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