No Blade Of Grass 1970 Forgotten Social Breakdown Film

Even with my disowning of the entertainment industry, I will confess to not abstaining from viewing a film that has an important message in it or theme that I may find relevant to a present day situation. Of course, I mainly stick to the films from decades past for this. I've always had a fondness for the dystopian/social break down/commentary films of the 70s. There were so many churned out that some got lost in the shuffle and fell into obscurity.

This film, No Blade Of Grass is to me a forgotten classic ripe for rediscovery, especially with relation to the particular situation the world is presently facing with the coronavirus, aka the holocough. Based on John Christopher's 1956 novel, The Death Of Grass, it follows the survivors of a crisis that has hit London in the not too distant future. When London is overwhelmed by food riots caused by a global famine caused by a virus killing off all fields of wheat, rye, rice, and barley, a man tries to lead his family to safety to an alleged unaffected area in Westmorland.

I think people really need to study this film to make sense of a potential situation that they themselves may soon have to confront. The scenes of food riots breaking out are chilling when taken into account the thought that this scenario might be happening in a mere few weeks or months right outside your door. The movie is ripe with scenes of underlying disturbance thinking what lengths desperate people will go to for a mouthful of food.