#Thursday Settman

[writing-sunshine]

Cryosleep

Paring: Platonic!Settman sisters x Settman!reader

Warnings: Death

A/n: Biologically I don’t know if this is possible, but this is a dystopian world so who knows.

Summary: Instead of seven children, there were 8 but number 8 wasn’t identical to her sisters, Terrance was too confident in his abilities to keep all eight hidden…

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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday could all go outside on the day of the week which was their name. This was to keep all seven of them hidden, however Terrance was too cocky. He thought he could get away with having Y/N under a different name.

It worked for many years, 13 to be exact. Y/N had lived 13 years able to go outside any day, she got the freedom her sisters craved. Only eventually someone noticed that Y/N had a lot of resemblance to Karen Settman and the more they thought about it the more things seemed to click in place.

Never once had any of them seen another parent with Y/N, only Terrance which didn’t make sense because he had Karen to care for so who was this girl. Someone had snitched to someone else and before they knew it CAB was knocking on the door.

Terrance knew why they were there, so instead of sending Y/N with her sisters behind the mirror, he told her to wait in his room. As much as it pained him to give her up, he had no choice. It was her or her sisters in his eyes, one sacrifice for the many. Once she was gone into cryo, people would stop putting their nose where it didn’t belong, keeping all seven of them safe.

“Terrance Settman, open up!”

He opened the door and was quickly restrained, the officers pushing their way into the apartment searching each room.

“Found her!” A voice shouted out and one of the officers dragged out a scared looking Y/N.

Monday who was Karen at that moment looked like she also wanted to cry. She knew and understood what would happen now and looking at Y/N’s face she knew that would be the last time she would see her youngest sister.

“Siblings.” An officer confirmed, they didn’t even do any kind of test, that just assumed.

“You know what happens now Mr Settman. I hope you have said your goodbyes.”

While the adults were talking, Y/N got free of the grip and ran to her bed grabbing her stuffed animal tightly while getting dragged away again. This time she kicked and fought, she didn’t scream but the tears rolling down her cheeks showed how she was feeling.

“No! Let me go, please I need my sister! Sister, help me! Grandpa help me!” She cried.

Later Monday would realise why Y/N had said ‘sister’ instead of Karen. She wasn’t just talking to her, Y/N was talking to all of them without giving them away.

Once the door had closed and they no longer heard CAB, Terrance pressed the red button letting the remaining Settman sisters out of their hiding place. Many of them were in tears. They didn’t get to say goodbye, they would never see their beloved younger sister again.

Y/N stayed in the facility for a few days before she was lead into the room where she would be put into cryo. Never once did she let go of her stuffed teddy, despite what the doctors told her. She held onto it tightly as she was injected. Never to let go of it again as she fell into a deep sleep one last time.

*17 years later

Monday had struck up a deal with Cayman, donating money for the safety of her twins and getting her sister back from Cryosleep. Never once did she betray her sisters. At some point Cayman had trusted Monday enough to show her what was actually happening behind closed doors, what cause Monday was donating to and what really happened to her sister.

Unbeknownst to Cayman, Monday recorded the whole process which would later be shown to the world.

As Monday went home that night, she stumbled through the door unlike herself. Practically weeping once the door was closed, into her sisters arms.

“What’s wrong? What happened?” This wasn’t like Monday, maybe it was the added hormones.

“Cryosleep isn’t real, they aren’t putting children to sleep they are killing them!”

Monday showed them the video and each of them once again grieved the loss of their sister. The first time it was difficult, knowing they would never see her again but they thought that she was still alive and able to live freely one day. But the second time hurt a lot worse, she was only 13, Y/N didn’t get to see the world and grow up.

Eight was now seven forever. They had lost their youngest sister again.

[diver5ion]

"Will it hurt?"

[bunbunsie]

Is it just me or Thursday has some gay vibe in her. Im not sure but she did weird thing to my tummy with her clean cut short hair and stoic face, a sarcastic attitude and her fitted black tee

So gorgeous sob.

[brokehorrorfan]

What Happened to Monday? (previously known as Seven Sisters) will be released exclusively on Netflix on August 18. The trailer is playing above - on a Monday, of course.

Noomi Rapace plays seven identical sisters in the film. Glenn Close and Willem Dafoe also star in the sci-fi thriller. Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) directs.

In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One-Child Policy, seven identical sisters (Noomi Rapace) live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman. Taught by their grandfather (Willem Dafoe) who raised and named them – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday – each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home.

[outdistancefear]

I was tagged by @drum-nem

Rules: Write your ten favourite female characters from ten different fandoms and tag ten different people. 

Eleanor Shellstrop - The Good Place

Kara Danvers - Supergirl

Shelby Wyatt - Quantico

Claire Nuñez - Trollhunters

Trini - Power Rangers 

Caitlin Snow - The Flash

Felicity Smoke - Arrow

Rhiannon - Every Day

Lana Myers - The Mindfuck Series

Thursday Settman - What Happened to Monday

[style-yesnews]

【影評】七姊妹《獵殺星期一 What Happened To Monday》

觀後感：

人口過剩但糧食短缺，所以政府實拖一胎政策，如家庭多出一胎會將多出的採取凍眠方法來待世情改善後才獲甦醒。在這環境下，Terrence的女兒不幸產下七胞胎後過世，Terrence為能一家能夠齊齊整整竟瞞騙政府私下養育這七胞胎孫女，這七姊妹均以星期來作名(Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday及Sunday)，而每個都會以自己的名字可於每星期以Karen Settman身份外出一次……三十年後，七人所飾演的Karen Settman身份已成為成功人士，但一次Monday外出後的失蹤，令其餘六姊妹方寸大亂，第二日Tuesday追尋下發現原來已被兒童配額局識破編局，政府為免外界發現政策上漏洞竟下了追殺令……

（以下有結局暗示，看前請三思）

看故事其實好吸引，而且都幾相信有條件可以拍得緊張刺激，而事實上以娛樂角度看這套真的做到應有效果。但如你是一個追求情節要合情合理的話，這套就大大出現明顯的瑕疵、反駁及漏洞。第一要七姊妹能瞞天過海分身生活已經難，還要生活到三十年才給發現就更加難上難，只是看她與看更的對話其實已處處漏出破綻；其次兒童配額局入屋追殺失敗後竟就此了事，荒謬地給了其餘姊妹做後援工作的機會；其三明明政府想私下解決事件，但追殺得這麼大陣仗是否自打嘴巴？其四就是死人都一年拜一兩次，何解凍眠孩童的親人不作探望要求？只是有這要求就自然能發現政府陰謀。本身我不太想看戲駁戲，但這套我覺太過明顯，所以看時係好有娛樂性都未能太討好我，但想不到當結局揭盅時竟令我有所驚喜，原來電影中的精粹就是藏在當中的結局，是什麼？當然是這七姊妹不為人知的愛恨關係，就是這一個對我來說稱心滿意的結局令我對這看似表面的電影即時改觀。

一人飾演七角的Noomi Rapace演得精彩，竟自然演活了七種不同的性格角色，而且發現她雖不是美女一名，但就有一種魅力氣質會令人迷上，而我就是當中被她迷的一位。有出色女角當然都要有位花瓶來襯托，而今次充當花瓶就有位露股型男Marwan Kenzari，他與Noomi的床上戲不算好激,但就幾火辣啊！

好少看一套科幻動作片文戲係同武戲有這麼大的反差，這套��可說是套奇葩。

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【影評】名花有主《慾望鬱金香 Tulip Fever》

片字男mk 愛電影, 愛音樂, 以看電影為樂的平凡男子一名。

[jackykay]

Orphan Black/ What Happened to Monday FF

Please tell me somewhere in the Tumblr verse someone came up with the idea of doing a fanfic that has the Leda sisters in the roles of the Settman sisters of Netflix movie What Happened to Monday?

COME ON?! It would be so good!

Monday is Rachel (In charge of setting a good example for her sisters, but sick of it, and ready for a way out)

Tuesday is Cosima (The pothead)

Wednesday is Sara (Badass who thinks with her fists not her head)

Thursday is Helena (protector to all and will stop at nothing to avenge and save her sisters) 

Friday is MK (shy, quiet, unable to live outside in the real world and without all her sisters)

Saturday is Krystal (party animal)

Sunday is Allison (more reserved)

Mrs. S can be the Willam Defoe characters who protected and hides the sisters.

Delphine can be the man or in this case woman who falls in love with Monday or in this case Tuesday and protects all the sisters once she finds out about them.

[review-duck]

What happened to Monday

This is a quick review as I’m going to try to avoid spoilers and leave you some surprises.

When I go to the movies, I usually try to avoid knowing about it as much as possible. I try to avoid trailers, I do not read reviews, I just look at the cast and the overall plot and that’s it.

And I’m glad I did for “What happened to Monday” or “Seven Sisters” as it’s called in France (wtf).

“What happened to Monday” is a futuristic movie, where birth are controlled and families are only allowed to have one kid. But due to the use of GMO, when women are pregnant they often have 3, 5, even 7 kids at the same time. And that’s what happened to our heroines. They are 7 sisters, they all look alike, they are all played by the one and only Noomi Rapace. Their grandfather, Willem Dafoe, hides them. They all assume the same identity, Karen Settman, and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as they are called, are only allowed to go out on the day of their name (Monday can only go out on Monday, Tuesday on Tuesday etc)

But one day, Monday doesn’t come home.

And that’s all I knew of the plot. And that’s all you need to know.

I was really surprised about how quickly things go after that disappearance, and I really liked it. The suspense is there throughout the whole movie: what happened to Monday? How are the others going to manage? Will they be discovered? Will they be killed?

You don’t have a second of rest, and Noomi Rapace’s acting x7 makes sure of that. Of course how could I not compare with Orphan Black, but really the only common point with that excellent tv-show is that a lot of characters are played by the same actress. Nothing else concurs plot-speaking. You have the Cosima (the geek), you have the Krystal (the blonde), because you have to be able to differentiate them straight away, but you can’t expect more from a 2hr movie. The technique is impeccable, with better visual effects than Orphan Black (not that they weren’t good on the show, but sometimes it was perceptible) and some interactions between Noomi Rapace and Noomi Rapace left me breathless.

The action is there, the thrill is there, the violence is there, the mandatory sex scene is there (while a bit surprising), the acting is good, the soundtrack works, so the ingredients to make a nice action pizza are all accounted for.

But in the meantime, the whole plot, despite surprising at times, was pretty classic. The world is shit. Birth are controlled. People hide. Evil Glenn Close. Evil government. And to be honest, I was kind of disappointed with the ending. It was predictable (as the woman behind me at the movies said out loud “I knew it”) but that wasn’t what annoyed me the most about it. It was predictable in the “it’s a futuristic-thriller-action movie, there are codes and expectations and twists and turns and we’re gonna give them all to you” but what made me “uuuugh” were the motives behind the whole plot. [clue to the ending, don’t read if you’re an over-thinker] I wish sometimes evil would just be evil, do things for selfish reasons, and not have a last minute redemption to understand one’s motivations. 

Quack + Noomi Rapace x7 No straight white male to save the damsel Surprises Raw and realistic violence

Quack - The ending Probably a B-movie if you watch it on tv.

[bluecollarfilm]

Whatever Happened to Monday (2017)

In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One-Child Policy, seven identical sisters (all of them portrayed by Noomi Rapace) live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman. Taught by their grandfather (Willem Dafoe) who raised and named them - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home.

Directed by:   Tommy Wirkola

Starring:   Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, Christian Rubeck

Release date:   August 18, 2017

[ramajmedia]

What Happened To Monday’s Ending Explained | Screen Rant

What did the ending of Netflix’s sci-f thriller What Happened To Monday mean? Netflix has been upping its original movie content over the past few years and has dipped its toes into the sci-fi genre a few times with films like Alex Garland’s critically acclaimed sci-fi horror Annihilation and, more recently, director Grant Sputore’s feature debut I Am Mother.

What Happened To Monday was released in 2017 and while it didn't receive the acclaim of Annihilation or I Am Mother, it was nevertheless a timely, topical sci-fi story with a unique premise. Directed by Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola (Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters), the film is set in a not-too-distant dystopian future in which overpopulation has led to a strict one-child policy being enacted. The policy is enforced by the creepy-sounding Child Allocation Bureau (CAB) which is headed by conservation biologist and aspiring politician Dr. Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close). The CAB puts any additional children born into cryo-sleep with the intention of waking them once the overpopulation crisis is handled. Or so they say.

Related: Annihilation Ending & Shimmer Explained

Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) plays seven identical septuplet sisters – each named after a day of the week – that were raised in secrecy by their grandfather after their mother dies in childbirth. To keep that major violation of the one-child policy under wraps, the sisters pretend to be one person – Karen Settman. The sisters are only allowed out in public on their namesake day and must ensure their appearances are identical and are all up to speed with what’s going on in ‘Karen’s’ life.

One day, when the sisters are grown up, Monday fails to return home from their job at a bank so her sisters set out to find what happened to her. Tuesday is first to investigate but is apprehended and detained by the CAB who remove her eyeball and use it to bypass the retinal scanner system at their home. CAB agents then pick off the sisters one-by-one until just Thursday, Tuesday and Monday – who is alive and well after all – are left.

It turns out Monday was having a relationship with CAB security guard Adrian, played by Marwan Kenzari (Aladdin), and got pregnant with twins. She bribed Dr. Cayman with a massive donation to her political campaign and sold her sisters out so she could keep her twins. Thursday also discovers the excess kids supposedly being put into cryo-sleep are really being incinerated and killed. She captures video evidence of this and broadcasts it during Cayman’s campaign, letting the public know all about CAB’s nefarious dealings. In the commotion, Monday is shot and mortally wounded by a CBA agent but it’s later revealed her twins are safely gestating in an artificial womb. The one-child policy has also been repealed and Cayman is facing the death penalty.

It seems like a happy ending but in the final scenes of What Happened To Monday the camera pans out from Monday’s twins to reveal a pediatrics ward full of hundreds of newborn babies. Newborn babies the overpopulated world What Happened To Monday takes place in simply can’t sustain. Morality may have prevailed but humanity and the planet are still doomed.

Next: Netflix's I Am Mother Ending Explained

source https://screenrant.com/what-happened-monday-finale-explained-noomi-rapace/

[ciegeinc]

Movie Review...What Happened to Monday

(3/5) Another very interesting film and concept, but not without several plot and character flaws. Note spoilers will be after this sentence if you haven’t seen it.  One issue I had was the amount of force used to “erase” the siblings.  You would have thought they were a gang of spies or assassins for that amount of force.  The another issue I had was with the ending, when it was revealed that the person behind all of it was pregnant with twins.  That really didn’t make sense for the future she was trying to insure was going to happen. Another issue, and this one maybe a little morbid…having lived in a world where no one had siblings and everyone had one child, having seven and protecting simply for love seemed a little far-fetched and troublesome.  What was the point of keeping and saving all of them.  Was it simply for love?  I would have liked it if the grandfather kept them and trained them to take down the Bureau.  Overall the film had a “Gattaca” vibe to it.  Futuristic, stealing and playing with people’s identities.   In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic "One Child Policy," seven identical sisters live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman (Noomi Rapace). Taught by their grandfather (Willem Dafoe) who raised and named them - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home... (rottentomatoes.com)

[writing-sunshine]

The Kiss

Parings: Thursday Settman x reader, Wednesday Settman x reader

Warnings: Polyamory

Summary: Wednesday and Thursday miss reader but what happens when Saturday meets her first.

A/n: This is a v poly relationship, reader is dating Thursday and Wednesday but obviously they aren’t dating each other.

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In the recent two weeks, the Settman sisters noticed how Wednesday and Thursday were much more moodier than usual. It was almost as if they were constantly pouting about something and sometimes muttering to each other how something wasn’t fair.

The sisters had tried to get the two to talk about what was bothering them, but they insisted that nothing was wrong and they weren’t being moody.

What actually happened was (Y/n)(Y/L) their girlfriend was on a work trip, and had been for the past few weeks. She didn’t know when she would be getting back just that it would be soon.

The Settman house had come down with an illness which lead to many of the sisters asleep all day, the only one who surprisingly wasn’t ill was Saturday and since there was a huge promotion coming up, they decided it would be best not to miss a day and send her in.

Saturday was excited to finally go out on a day that wasn’t Saturday, she strutted through the crowds and made her way into the banks elevator.

“Hold the elevator please!” A voice shouted from not far away, and Saturday reacted quickly letting the other woman into the elevator just in time.

(Y/n) had just come back from the work trip she was sent on, having to go straight to the bank so she could see one of her girlfriends and today happened to be a Wednesday.

(Y/n) said a quick thank you and turned around to face ‘Karen’, gently taking her face into her hands and kissing her.

“I miss you and Thursday so much.” (Y/n) said after breaking the kiss, only to see a very shocked looking ‘Karen’.

In that moment (Y/n) knew she had messed up, this wasn’t Wednesday or even Thursday. It was a completely different Settman sister.

“You’re not Wednesday, are you?” She whispered scared and ‘Karen’ shook her head no.

A second later the elevator doors opened and (Y/n) practically ran out and as far away she could get. All while Saturday stood shocked at what had happened in the past minute.

“What the actual fuck!” Saturday whisper-shouted once she was alone again.

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After an eventful day Saturday went home and couldn’t keep her mouth shut for event a second once everyone was sitting at the dinning room table.

“Wednesday has a girlfriend and Thursday knows about it!” Saturday sounded like a child snitching but it felt good to get the secret off her chest.

Everyone was silent for a moment, having rested all day and feeling much better. Slowly their heads turned to Wednesday, all except Thursday who obviously knew everything.

“What is she talking about Wednesday?” Monday asked impatiently and when Wednesday didn’t say anything, her gaze turned to Thursday. “Thursday.”

“Me and Wednesday have been dating the same woman for a couple of months.” Thursday reluctantly explained while Wednesday didn’t say anything.

The other Settman sisters were shocked, how didn’t they know about this. Saturday took a seat and let out a breath. Wednesday and Thursday looked at her narrowing their eyes.

“Wait a minute, how do you know about this?” One of them asked her and she shrunk in her seat a little at their gaze.

“I was in the elevator and she asked me to hold the doors for her so I did and then she kissed me saying how much she missed you and Thursday. Then she figured out I wasn’t you and ran away. What’s her name?”

“(Y/n)(Y/L).” Thursday told them all. She wasn’t angry that (Y/n) had kissed Saturday, just jealous after not seeing her for so long.

“You can’t be with her.” Monday said and everyone turned to look at her Wednesday raising to her feet in protest.

“You can’t tell me-us what to do. We know (Y/n) and we trust her. She won’t tell anyone.”

“How about we all calm down and take a minute. Maybe we should meet (Y/n).” Tuesday suggested.

Meanwhile (Y/n) was unpacking her things from her trip while also pacing around thinking about how mad her girlfriends probably are.

She then got a message on her bracelet from Thursday asking her to come over to her house, (Y/n) knew where it was and already started walking.

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When there was a knock at the door, it was Sunday who opened it and let her in. She was lead over to the dinning room table where Wednesday and Thursday sat together waiting for her, while the others sat in their usual seats.

“Hi.” (Y/n) spoke to break the silence, walking to her girlfriends. Thursday pulled (Y/n) onto her lap and Wednesday held (Y/n)’s hand while the sisters looked at them.

“So, how did you start dating these two?” Saturday asked thoroughly intrigued.

“Well I bumped into Wednesday one night and we ended up having drinks together, and the next day I mistook Thursday for her and then we talked for a bit. I already figured out that it was two different women but I didn’t know about you five. We got to know each other on their days and at some point there was this unspoken agreement that we were more than friends.” (Y/n) explained, she did truly love these two women.

The others saw how they interacted with each other, they just wished they’d have known sooner. Of course they would have supported them being in love with the same woman.

[ravensmoviesseries]

What Happened To Monday

 Seven Sisters, One Identity 

In a not so distant future, overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One-Child Policy. Seven identical sisters live a hide-and-seek existence by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman, in order to escape the Child Allocation Bureau. Each can go outside once a week as their common identity but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home.

Trailer           Rating: 8.5/10★

This movie messed me up.

A little bit out of my comfort zone, this is a very fast-paced movie, with lots of action and heartaches. For the most part, I enjoy movies that give me time to get to know and appreciate each character. This movie completely stepped all over my preference.

It deals with heavy subjects and succeeds in delivering a meaningful message to the audience. The only reason this is not a 10/10 movie for me it’s that I would have prefered it was a duology instead of a stand-alone film and wanted more time to get to know each of the seven sisters. A standing ovation for the actress portraying all of seven sisters, Noomi Rapace.

If you have already supplied yourself with tissues, I recommend you watch this movie as soon as possible.

! Disclaimer! If you haven’t watched the movie, stop reading, this review contains spoilers!

We follow 7 siblings, therefore know not all of them will come out of this alive. As Monday and Tuesday disappear, the rest are left wondering if their secret has been revealed.

As the sisters’ numbers kept decreasing, I thought it would be hard to actually care whether they died or not. I thought it was out of convenience that Sunday died so early on, I didn’t even get a chance to tell her hair apart. By the way, how each style their hair is the only way to tell them apart (just like a kpop group).

Wednesday. By far my favourite sister. The fighter, the protector. The 'jumping from the rooftop' scene for me was the highlight of the movie and the cinematography was just incredible. And her death, don’t make me talk about it.

Same feelings about Saturday and Friday, they deserved so much better. The irony of it all, Saturday never got to finish saying “I love you” to her sisters but Friday did.

I was relieved to find Tuesday alive. 2/7 ain’t that bad, right? We were hoping to find Monday too but, um, it didn’t turn out so well. The worst kind of betrayal is one coming from a family member and the reason I was brought to tears when Thursday recapped her sisters' deaths. Unpopular opinion, Monday did have a serious reason, that being the twins in her belly. But still, having the government assassinate your siblings is too cruel, simply unjustifiable. No matter the reason.

Going into this movie, it was pretty obvious that none of the children was “stored away”. Even in fiction, there’d be not enough space for that. But drugging them and burning them?

It feels sometimes like the directors and screenwriters, in general, keep trying to find ways to make cruel situations even crueller and I don’t know for how long my poor heart will be able to make it if this goes on.

Concluding by saying this movie is another reason to hate Mondays.

[tomorrowedblog]

First look at What Happened to Monday

A new trailer has been released for What Happened to Monday, which is set to release August 18, 2017.

In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic “One Child Policy,” seven identical sisters live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman (Noomi Rapace). Taught by their grandfather (Willem Dafoe) who raised and named them - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home…

[cherryjasmin]

What Happened to Monday?

What Happened To Monday is a Netflix film, titled Seven Sisters in Canada, France, Italy and Slovakia.  It was released in 2017.

Around the year 2043, overpopulation has caused a worldwide crisis in food and water shortages.  Man developed super genetic food to feed the world and as a result, humans started giving birth to litters of children.  I say litters because the movie is about septuplets – 7 identical sisters.  Their mom died during childbirth and Terrence Settman, played by actor Willem Dafoe, keeps the multiple births secretive and raises his granddaughters.  He names each one after a day of the week.

In their apartment, each sister can be herself.  Outside however, each one has to be Karen Settman, and they are only allowed outside on the day that they are named after.  This also means that they have to decide what career they will all share because Monday goes to work on that day; Tuesday goes to the same job on that day, etc. Noomi Rapace plays all seven of the sisters, and she does a great acting job.

By now you’re probably wondering why Terrence made that arrangement.  It’s because the government developed a program called Child Allocation Bureau, (C.A.B.) ran by Nicolette Cayman, played by Glenn Close.  When multiple children are born to one mother, all but the eldest are put into cryosleep.  Only one child is allowed to be raised because Cayman believes that raising more than one child takes food and water from others.

To fix the problem with siblings, C.A.B. has agents to take siblings into custody and “cryogenically” freeze them until a time when man finds a way to create more natural resources.  Residential areas are separated from business areas.  To enter a business area, people are checked by C.A.B. agents who check their identification bracelets.  When purchasing food, (which has been reduced to eating rats), identification bracelets are also checked.

(In the movie, there are shades of Nazi Germany and shades of how the U.S. government is now asking for proof of citizenship on buses.)

Since it seems obvious in the movie that the government issues identification bracelets, (Terrence made bracelets for his granddaughters), siblings are unable to make purchases.  They are taking a chance being outside their dwellings without an I.D. bracelet.

The movie spans 30 years in the life of the septuplets. For me, it raised questions, such as what happens when the resources problem is resolved and all of those frozen children are awakened? They will have no family to raise them.  Having no siblings is not limited to the current generation.  It also means having no aunts or uncles.

As I watched the film, I asked how much money was being spent to keep massive amounts of children frozen and why wasn’t that money being spent to develop food and water?   This led me to anticipate what would be revealed by the end of the movie.

Another thing I noticed about the movie is that guns will not operate without the finger print of the gun owner or in the case of C.A.B. agents, the fingerprint of the agent.   It sounds like a solution to stop the use of stolen or unregistered guns.  However, as the movie shows, all it takes is a sharp knife to the trigger finger of the gun owner  … (you get the idea).

An obvious anticipation to the movie’s title is that Monday goes missing.  However, why Monday goes missing is also a point in the title.  Something happened to Monday beyond her not coming home from work one day.

Karen/Monday and Cayman make a deal.  Cayman will kill all of Monday’s siblings. Why?  What happened to Monday to bring her to agree that Cayman execute her 6 sisters?  Cayman doesn’t want the world to know that 7 siblings lived for 30 years on rations for one person without detection, and she feels that if the truth is known about their survival, that it will destroy her credibility.  That is when the movie turns into an action/detective thriller.

Monday is in love with a C.A.B. agent that checks I.D. and the entry point to the business where Karen/Monday works.  They only get together one day of the week — you guessed it — Monday.  The C.A.B. agent wants to spend more time with Karen.  He is unaware that the Karen he sees on other days coming to work are Monday’s siblings.

The 7 sisters were taught that everything they see, say and do while outside of the apartment is shared with all of the sisters.  That is necessary so that people who see Wednesday on Wednesday and Thursday on Thursday might strike up a conversation about what they talked about on Friday a week ago.

Monday did not tell her 6 siblings about her love affair. They learned about it by accident after Monday went missing and another sibling, as Karen, talked with the C.A.B. agent. At the end of the movie, we also learn that Monday is pregnant with twins.   How can a woman in love who is pregnant only be her real self on one day of the week?  How can her siblings be her on all other days?

All things at the end of the movie are not roses, but a good thing is that Cayman is exposed as the liar she is and the truth is revealed about cryosleep – it is not about saving siblings until there is enough food to feed the world — it is an incinerator.  Cayman was charged with murder, and the C.A.B. program was repealed.

What are the social messages in What Happened To Monday?  There are many.  In one scene, we see a sign for voluntary sterilization.  The movie conveys the idea that the government in control was anti-choice; did not allow abortions nor planned parenthood for birth control.  As another example, to defend herself against being dishonest about cryosleep, Cayman stated that the children did not suffer, and were better off dead than living in overpopulated conditions.

Before her deception was revealed, Cayman introduced that because overpopulation was not under control, that certain families would not be allowed to keep and raise even one child.  Her program was to be income based which means, the movie conveyed that the poor would never be provided with opportunities to improve their condition.

As Willem Dafoe stated in an interview, “It’s not so different than the world we live in today.”

- (cto.) blackbutterfly7 .

All took one singular identity of Karen Settman.

- Monday was a traitor. but at the end, she regret all the bad things she did to her sisters. - Tuesday managed to stay alive with the other eye carved out and tell everybody about the lies of Cayman. - Wednesday is the baddest, the scene where she jumped from one building to another with a 50/50 chance of making it takes great courage. - Thursday helped tuesday to escape and spill the secrets of Cayman while still grieving for her lost sisters. - Friday is the wises and most intelligent girl who accepted her death as she knows in her heart that she's not a fighter like the others and won't even survive outside for a minute. - Saturday took Monday's identity to get information on her lover on where she could find her lost sister. well, all the talking went "straight to bed" - Sunday used to be the believer. but after realizing that she's about to die, she doesn't believe in herself anymore.

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