What Happened to Monday was a movie that depicted the wish of a nation to see another week during a time when the resources a society has are incapable of sustaining the rising population. The movie was introduced during a time in which each day in a nation’s history brought with it the struggle to survive. With each passing day, limited resources brought ensuing hunger, hopelessness, and despair. During such hard times, the people of a nation are willing to believe in an idea that brings with it the promise of a better tomorrow without stopping to process the realism and consequences of an idea grounded in utopianism. This movie showed how easily one can gain power through unshakable trust. The child allocation act [the creation of a one-child household through the elimination of siblings in society] was an example of mind control at its best. This policy survived for decades because the government fostered utopianism through secrecy and lies. By creating this illusion, the government got parents to willingly give up their children for elimination without doubting the falsehood of an idea. This movie showed the attainment of power and influence once people mindlessly believe in one’s ideals. This is applicable to society because there are many countries in which the government tries to do what is best for their people without caring for the emotional well-being of their citizens. In the movie, we saw a family’s struggle to stay together. Through the screen, their raw emotions, desperation, and fear could be felt. Their struggles open the eyes to how far a person is willing to go to protect the person that has their heartfelt emotions. This movie also touched on how when a person is in a space without judgment, they can carry-out the unthinkable. From what could be gathered, it takes immense courage to break down the walls of a perfectly crafted illusion during a time when people need hope to go on. In all, I thought this movie to be enjoyable and I would recommend for anyone to see the movie.
Rose Scholars Spring 2018
Endless possibilities
I wonder if a governmental illusion is always a bad thing. Like what is inherently good about knowing and perceiving the true nature of reality? Or is the illusion in this case (I haven’t seen the film) one of human rights violations? But even in that case, if everyone on earth is brainwashed to believe that something we would consider as a human rights violation isn’t a human rights violation, is it still a bad thing?
In a way, a government illusion is always a bad thing in that it robs the people a chance to know the truth and to choose the life that they wanted. However, I believe a governmental illusion is excusable if the intention behind it is right (according to ethics and morals) and it does not leave a subgroup of people hurt or a society desolate. In the movie, millions of children were eliminated and the lives they could have lived were taken away from them. The parents that loved and wanted them (the children were forcibly snatched) will never know the welfare of their children. That alone, in my opinion, is utterly wrong. Also, in the movie the illusion was an illusion of the mind not an illusion of reality. They had a perceive notion that years from now, the availability of food will rise, the siblings will awaken, and population will be able to sustain itself off the available food. Under this regime, additional measures were not taken to actually raise the number of food available in society. All that was done was to ration the food. Since, nothing was done to increase food growth and spreadability, it was already impossible for the siblings to awaken and rejoin society. So, the idea behind this was to eliminate siblings from society. When natural birth occurs, it is impossible to control for multiple children in one birth cycle. A variable of error will always be introduce under this plan. This will lead to a continuous cycle of killing that will continue for years. Years from now when this is discovered, society will eventually realize the truth and the illusion of the mind will be taken away and society will be forced to face this truth without a proper plan (which is what happened in the movie). So, in the end the truth will be discovered. In general, I believe that is a bad thing because human beings are inherently curious. This curiosity will led to the truth being discovered. Which will in turn lead to outbreaks that will seek to challenge such a plan/regime/illusion.