What Happened To Monday Movie (2017)

What an interesting Sci-Fi experience. So the plot is about a set of septuplets which consists of 7 identical sisters that were born in a world that outlaws any siblings. The reason for that is in this movie at the year 2043 the population is out of control and the food is diminishing. So in an effort to prevent world hunger and over population they have a rule under the “child allocation bureau” to enforce the one child per family law. In this future you notice small details like cars and various digital billboards and such. Also all of the firearms are digitally coded to specific law enforcement agents. So that means they can only fire when that specific person uses their finger recognition on the weapon. Back to the story, so these 7 sisters have one name one identity yet in the privacy of their home and under the strict supervision of their grandfather they refer to each other as a name for each day of the week. Being 7 of them they go from Monday to Sunday for their names. Each day of the week the sisters plays out the day as the role of one person and the next sister which is named the next day of the week plays out her day under the same identity. This creates many complications throughout the movie as often times some things are not shared between all of the sisters. They must wait until it’s their day before they can go out in the world and act out their identity. Now you get the plot right in the title which Monday goes missing. Each sister has drastically different personalities and I really think Noomi Rapace does a very excellent job in showing us entirely different characters even despite how much green screen she is acting with. Green screen is used to manipulate duplicate people. Rapace even interviewed saying she would listen to different music as well as wear certain perfumes depending which character she was playing to help her morph into that person. So you don’t get that cheap CGI feeling when you see them all together, they actually look and appear like different people. One of the CAB Agents that they have a run-in with is kind of a bad ass. There is this scene where he hops out of military vehicle to go handle business and sticks his arms out wide while soldiers lower armor fatigues over him which clearly displays his importance. The sisters have different styles and one of them is very tough, always working out and hitting punching bags while others just seem like ordinary women with different personalities. I read Brian Tallerico’s review which he seemed to like the intense fighting scenes which is an under statement, these bitches get down when they need to. To paraphrase Tallerico, basically he felt like there wasn’t enough character development and holes in plots even though his dumb ass should understand they had to build stories of 7 individuals in under 2hrs. Also certain pieces really didn’t need to get explained especially when the story already has so many good twists and turns leading to the climax of it all. Plus many of the aspects are relevant to the world we are living in now. One thing I would have liked is more intense phrases in revenge scenes. For instance when she over powers the doctors and sticks the one doctor with his own needle, she lowers him down and appears out of breath. I think as she was poking him with the needle they should have focused on her face as she declares “How the fuck does that shit feel?!” or maybe she could have said very sternly “Go to sleep” as the body drops to the floor. Instead you are left with too many intense scenes that needed the cult classic lines. However when she has the bathroom scene and goes HAM sandwich on the soldiers, that was done beautifully and you could feel the revenge fill the room. All in all this is a movie very worth watching with that black mirror esq feel to which makes the viewers think.