“If we get this promotion, it’s all thanks to Friday.” “The End of the Day Meeting” is how they debrief each other on what they encountered and how they keep their one story straight. Dinner time? A veritable smorgasbord of personality “types” bickering and belching, whining and biting into “bio-engineered” this or “genuine rat.”Īt least Soylent Green isn’t on the menu. Seven sisters, one identity - Karen Settman. We see flashbacks that listen in on their grandfather’s lessons about “working collectively” and “selecting a career that takes advantage of your joint skills.” We see granddad preparing an apartment, Anne Frank Annex style, to secretly house one daughter plus six extras, drill them on hiding, tamper with government-issued ID bracelets to hide their numbers.Įach sister will leave the house only on the day of the week that corresponds to their name. Rapace plays seven identical siblings born into this world, hidden from it by assuming a single identity by their cunning and somewhat “selfish” grandfather ( Willem Dafoe).
Yeah, “Handmaid’s Tale” and “Children of Men” and “Soylent Green” figure into this dark day that is frighteningly likely to come, with Glenn Close the overlord overseeing this “Future is Female.” And Yeah, her “Numbers add up” speech makes chilling sense. It’s a single-child-per-family future with the all the desperate, rational and draconian measures “society,” ordained by science, has taken to save the human race. The formidable Noomi Rapace lends urgency, empathy and physical presence to what devolves from a smart, cerebral premise into something more conventional and illogical. “What Happened to Monday” is yet another dystopian spin on a future we are hellbent on refusing to avoid - overpopulated, polluted, climate-changed.
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