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Despite being built upon the enforcement of such a strict government policy, the film can easily be read as an anti-abortion allegory. Any younger siblings are required to be turned in (or will otherwise be captured) and put into cryogenic freezing until, the party line goes, some ambiguous future time when the world is capable of providing for them. The bureaucratic control over life and choice wielded by all authoritarian sci-fi regimes here takes the form of population control, with the powers that be in some vague mid-21st Century European* megalopolis instituting a strict one-child policy to quell the country's (and planet's) overpopulation crisis. Sincere intent gets buried beneath too many obvious creative choices. It's the execution - both in Tommy Wirkola's direction and in the wobbly balance between ideas and plotting - that makes the film seem like any other assembly-line dystopian thriller. Muddled as the film's messaging ultimately may be, Kerry Williamson and Max Botkin's script clearly has something in mind, and that something clearly calls to be framed in front of an authoritarian future. (Its production values, including extensive special-effects work, are strong - this isn't some cheapo effort or anything - but the vision or purpose behind it isn't there.) And yet what's unmistakable is that the narrative does have overt allegorical intent. The production design is little more than an elaborate Scary Oppressive Future Alert. That's a perplexing question for What Happened to Monday by appearances, it's every bit as hollowly affectational as so many of its dystopian contemporaries. Is this particular future necessary, or is it just easy? But, being as common as it is these days, dystopia is too often a monotonous crutch. That setting - even more than the prisms of other imagined genre settings - is too inescapably rooted in metaphor and message to ever be incidental. But inventing a threatening future is a statement in and of itself. Those stories are already there to be told.

Those times and places are, or were once, populated by real people and societies and political structures. Time and place are always vital, but anytime or anywhere with a real, documented history doesn't necessarily need anything more than cursory justification. The dystopian What Happened to Monday exemplifies the very problem with the subgenre's overpopularity. Netflix, dead set on programming to every conceivable template, has officially checked this one off the list.

#WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY CAST MOVIE#

The lingering sensation when watching a movie with this specific backdrop - and there are many - is. Less a setting and more an elaborate Snapchat filter applied by directors to give their bad sci-fi entries some degree of superficial credibility, Glossy Dystopian Metropolis is far too instantly recognizable for something that has no intrinsic personality. The same can be said for Glossy Dystopian Metropolis, one of those ubiquitously generic veneers used over and over in movies that have a clear-cut genre but no clear-cut ideas. You see the same diners, the same piers the same balconies and the same green-screened city backgrounds behind them. And not just the major landmarks that everyone knows already. See enough movies and you start to remember places you've never been, recognize obscure locations and geographical details ingrained from years of subconscious exposure. Starring: Noomi Rapace, Noomi Rapace, Noomi Rapace, Noomi Rapace, Noomi Rapace, Noomi Rapace, Noomi Rapace, Marwan Kenzari, Clara Read, Christian Rubeck, Willem Dafoe and Glenn Close Screenplay: Kerry Williamson and Max Botkin On inexplicable familiarity, disingenuous dystopias, and the dubious lack of identity in What Happened to Monday

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