Dead” played with expectations and got only increasingly more gonzo, “What Happened to Monday” is kind of boring when it comes to style. Most surprisingly given how “ Dead Snow 2: Red vs.
It’s certainly not a bad idea for a sci-fi film, or an extended episode of “Black Mirror,” but screenwriters Max Botkin and Kerry Williamson needed another pass to take it beyond a very loose collection of action scenes.
It leads them into the clutches of the Child Allocation Board, and the truth about Nicollete Cayman’s vision for the future. The other six girls, who have distinct enough personalities to allow Rapace to have a little fun-one is more of a bookworm than her sisters, one is more physically outgoing, etc.-have to figure out what happened to Monday. If one sister loses a finger …Īnd then Monday doesn’t come home one night. And in one of the film’s more ingeniously grotesque twists of fate, they must all look exactly the same. must inform the entire sisterhood every night about every detail that happened during the day.
They will essentially take turns being Karen Settman, who eventually becomes a powerful businesswoman, but is really seven sisters working a very elaborate “Parent Trap.” Named after days of the week, Monday, Tuesday, etc. When Terrence Settman ( Willem Dafoe) has septuplet grandchildren, their mother dying in childbirth, he knows he’s in serious trouble, but he crafts a masterful scam to keep his granddaughters alive. The woman in charge of this program, Nicolette Cayman ( Glenn Close), is the kind of ruthless leader who promises a better future while stripping families of their offspring. If a family has more than one child, the extra child will be taken by the government and cryogenically frozen until a time when we have colonized another planet or found a way to create more natural resources. It’s resulted in a shocking but practical government decree: families can only have one child.
In a future not that dissimilar from the one imagined in “ Children of Men,” human beings have exhausted our planet’s resources.
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