First saw the trailer to this movie back in June and went in to watching
it thinking to who cares about Monday, it is Saturday and Sunday I want
to know exactly what happened to,
(both days went by in what feels like 2
frigging hours) also, what could Cruella de Vi (Glen Close), Ripley 2.0 (Noomi
Rapace) and the Goblin (Willem Dafoe) have to offer that I have not already
seen. Man was I impressed.
The movie takes place in a crisis-stricken future in the year 2073. To
combat overpopulation, scientists have created genetically-modified crops to
provide more food, and as things are bound to go in your typical mad scientist
inventions, these crops come with side effects. Side effects that result in a
drastic increase in the number of multiple births. In response, a politician
played by Glenn Close creates the “Child Allocation Act” enforced by the Child
Allocation Bureau, which restricts every family to no more than one child, and
should any siblings or unwanted pregnancies come along, those children are put
into cryo-freeze, a long-term, suspended animation, where they’ll be kept on
ice until the world’s problems are sorted out.
Enter the seven Settman sisters (all played by Noomi Rapace or like I
like to call her the Sigourney Weaver of the present generation). In order to
keep them safe, their grandfather played by Willem Dafoe named each of them
after a day of the week, and forbade them from going outside on any day other
than the day corresponding with their name ergo each sister only ever goes out
once a week. Outdoors, they all exist under the shared personality of Karen
Settman. But one day, Monday doesn’t come back home for the nightly family
meeting, thereby setting up the movie plot (not to mention name).
What happened to Monday though not
without its flaws, proved an intriguing watch. It is presently streaming on
Netflix.
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