Narrative comes first in Soylent Green, focusing on dystopian overpopulation and environmental collapse without shoehorning in modern identity politics. Characters are motivated by personal and societal issues, not ideology. There’s no sense of forced diversity or unrealistic flawless protagonists here, just a gritty, flawed cast.

The film does critique government, corporate power, and environmental neglect, and traditional institutions seem to be failing. Masculine roles are central, and while women are objectified in the story’s dystopia, it’s presented as part of the social breakdown, not celebrated. Cultural foundations are gloomy, but not subverted in a modern 'woke' sense.

Alternative viewpoints aren’t so much mocked as rendered powerless by the setting’s despair. Mainstream morality and faith are defeated, but not in service of current ideological conformity. The film is more concerned with warning against apathy and overconsumption than promoting a narrow, modern agenda.