What Happened to Monday (2017)
Directed by Tommy Wirkola
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
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A cryo-freeze commercial seen early in the film calls to mind the nod-and-wink of Paul Verhoeven social satires like RoboCop , while the persistent chatter of outside advertising inevitably recalls Blade Runner .
A cryo-freeze commercial seen early in the film calls to mind the nod-and-wink of Paul Verhoeven social satires like RoboCop , while the persistent chatter of outside advertising inevitably recalls Blade Runner .
Stop if you’ve seen or heard of the following lately: blue-and-red digital displays, glass touchscreens, Blade Runner -esque alleys, identification bands, “Together We Survive” propaganda signs, retinal scans, recorded memories, cryo-banks, desaturated environments.
The set-up is familiar from countless dystopian sci-fi fables, from Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), based on Brian Aldiss’s 1969 short story “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long,” in which parents who are not allowed to have children instead adopt lifelike child robots, to Kurt Vonnegut’s 1962 short story “2 B R 0 2 B,” where the world has set a population limit and therefore each birth must be matched with a death.
Instead, there’s little more than the transparent screen concept, apparently required since Minority Report came out, and clunky, metal wristbands that are used to track locations and ensure nobody is violating the Child Allocation Act.
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Harking back to 1970s thrillers like Soylent Green and Zero Population Growth, What Happened to Monday?
In the last few years the screens have been awash with stories set against the backdrop of environmental destruction, overpopulation, and rampant disease—Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Interstellar (2014), Snowpiercer (2013), Oblivion (2013), and Elysium (2013)—as well as multi-film franchises about the collapse of society and humanity—the rebooted Planet of the Apes (2011–), The Hunger Games (2012–2015), The Maze Runner (2014–2018), and The Purge (2013–).
In the last few years the screens have been awash with stories set against the backdrop of environmental destruction, overpopulation, and rampant disease—Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Interstellar (2014), Snowpiercer (2013), Oblivion (2013), and Elysium (2013)—as well as multi-film franchises about the collapse of society and humanity—the rebooted Planet of the Apes (2011–), The Hunger Games (2012–2015), The Maze Runner (2014–2018), and The Purge (2013–).
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(For what it’s worth, the made-up airplane escape in Affleck and Chris Terrio’s Argo script loosely suggests some truth to this gossip.)
In the last few years the screens have been awash with stories set against the backdrop of environmental destruction, overpopulation, and rampant disease—Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Interstellar (2014), Snowpiercer (2013), Oblivion (2013), and Elysium (2013)—as well as multi-film franchises about the collapse of society and humanity—the rebooted Planet of the Apes (2011–), The Hunger Games (2012–2015), The Maze Runner (2014–2018), and The Purge (2013–).