A sudden fear hit her and she gasped and stood on tiptoe to look at the water meter. The walls were soundproof but if he wasn’t really deeply asleep he might hear the water knocking in the pipes. There! She switched on the fluorescents and smiled around at the plastmarble interior and the gold-colored fixtures with highlights glinting everywhere. When he snored like that it meant he was really sound asleep – maybe she could take a shower without his knowing it! Her bare feet were noiseless on the rug and she closed the bathroom door so slowly that it never made a click. Mike gave a deep, throaty gargle, a startling sound when you weren’t used to it, but Shirl had heard it often enough. The second paragraph of the third chapter is: I had not previously read Make Room! Make Room!, the novel by Harry Harrison on which the film is loosely based. And the scenes of police brutally clearing up a riot hit very close to home right now. The euthanasia scene, and Charlton Heston's final scramble through the Soylent factory to discover its awful secret, are also very well done. Thirty-seven years on, New York may not have grown to 40 million, but it's still a city whose infrastructure cannot cope with a pandemic. The future claustrophobic and overcrowded New York is realised in great and convincing detail. It's a memorable film in several respects.
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