What Happened to Monday

 

What Happened to Monday 2017

• Director: Tommu Wirkola
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, Marwan Kenzari, Christian Rubeck, Pål Sverre Hagen, Tomiwa Edun, Cassie Clare, Cameron Jack
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Noomi Rapace – Stockholm, Unlocked, Rupture, Prometheus, Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows, Svinalängorna, Luftslottet som sprängdes, Flickan som lekte med eld, Män som hatar kvinnor, Tusenbröder
• Glenn Close – The Girl with All the Gifts, Sarah Plain and Tall, Mars Attacks!, Mary Reilly, Hook, Hamlet, The World According to Garp
• Willem Dafoe – The Lighthouse, Murder on the Orient Express, John Wick, Fireflies in the Garden, Paris je t’aime, American Dreamz, Manderlay, the Aviator, Once upon a Time in Mexico, American Psycho, eXistenZ, Lulu on the Bridge, The English Patient, Wild at Heart, Cry-Baby, Born on the Fourth of July, Mississippi Is Burning, The Last Temptation of Christ, Platoon, Streets of Fire
• Marwan Kenzari – Murder on the Orient Express
• Christian Rubeck – Doctor Who, The Girl in the Café, Millions
• Pål Sverre Hagen – Kon-Tiki
• Tomiwa Edun – Merlin, Romeo and Juliet
• Cassie Clare – Mamma Mia Here We Go Again
• Cameron Jack – The Dark Knight Rises, Trust Me
• Why? Noomi Rapace
• Seen: 5 January 2023      

       In the not-so-distance future, extreme overpopulation and food shortage have brought about one-child family laws. Multiple births are on the increase. Siblings are taken and put into cyber-sleep until the crisis has passed.

       Into this world a set of identical septuplets is born. They are quickly hidden by their grandfather (Dafoe) who names them after the days of the week. He raises them, teaches them to work together and creates the identity of Karen Settman (Rapace). They are allowed out one day a week each, all identical as Settman, but at home they are highly individual, different from each other, and snarled in typical sibling conflicts. Some of them hate being Karen, others think they should turn themselves in. In public, each one lives in danger of discovery.

       Then one day Monday goes missing.

       The concept is intriguing, Rapace is fantastic as the seven individuals – as good as Tatania Maslany in Orphan Black. It’s exciting and intelligent, one of the better sci fi dystopias I’ve seen, although it is, in reality, not totally wrong to consider a one-child policy, is it?

 4* of 5