Review of What Happened to Monday (2017) by Sparky M — 25 Apr 2018

W.O.A.H. So, feeling foolish to be left wondering what side exactly the movie storyline is on regarding overpopulation. But obviously if they were believing in that, then it would be more about running out of food and water and being so crowded wouldn't it? Not about showing the inhumanity in murdering people as a solution, the most commonly though hushed spoken about solution.

They wouldn't show the government institution that this story line presents is 'saving the future' and 'helping the present,' as corrupt and broadcasting lies. They wouldn't show a struggling family of sisters who each suffocate identity to survive presenting themselves as one person in a world where only childs are the only rule.

They wouldn't focus on the tragedy and the unfairness of it all. It wouldn't be written to leave the viewer with a sense of urgency, and a desire to fight united against something, looking for a bad guy to pay for the unrighteous crimes of invasion, kidnapping, murder and abolishing of freedoms.

They would depict busy streets in a futuristic world with advanced technology to go with the ever undercurrent pushed idea that there are too many humans on this earth and not enough food and water or space for them all.

They would give scary sounding statistics and numbers of people living and being born each day. But wait. They do. So perhaps the idea of how wrong and inefficient it is to murder any younger sibling and ban any couple any more than one child, is the thing promoted into the minds of the audience's subconscious.

But the idea that the earth is somehow overpopulated and ill treated leaving less resources each year for future generations? I think that is promoted. The fear of the future and the unknown. The injustice of taking a human life deserving, or not, even, though presented negatively, prompts the thinking and still leaves you in wander of your neighbor and if we *all* deserve to live and if it's you against them, who would it be? That fear and the adrenaline pumping through every viewer's veins? Could make them want to leave this film determined to fight back and looking for a cause.

And what better cause then the one that seems to be the problem? Or so called problem rather. It promotes searching for an alternative solution to this "problem." It leaves you with a sense of urgency after witnessing so much death and violence of innocent undeserving people.

4/26/18 To be edited. Parental guidance: Lot of cussing, lot of gore and violence, disturbing scenes, and nudity in a very visible sex scene.