What Happened to Monday? is a sci-fi dystopian action film that was screened this past Friday. The setting features a world a few decades into the future, and the main feature of world is that the government only allows one child per couple. This is due to the severe over population of the world and lack of resources because of this overpopulation. Couples with more than one children are forced to freeze their other offspring for reanimation at a later more prosperous date. The film starts with a grandfather harboring seven identical grandchildren, and devising a scheme to keep them from being frozen by staggering when they leave their residence. As adults, one of the siblings is caught after their existence is seemingly exposed, and one by one they are caught until the sibling Tuesday discovers that Monday had betrayed them to keep her way of life.

This movie deals with a variety of themes, some of which are more developed than others, and one that is visited at many points in the movie is the importance of family. The theme can be seen from the very beginning with the sibling’s grandfather, Terrence, dedicating his life maintaining the siblings’ safety. Doing things that are very hard for him, like cutting off the index finger tip of every child to maintain similarities in appearance, which made him sob, he was devastated he had to do something so horrible to them. Later in the film the siblings can be seen going to great lengths to find Monday after she did not come home, risking their lives at every turn to find her, and in the case of a few siblings giving their life to let the others survive. This theme is visited in a rather complex manner when Monday becomes pregnant with twins. Realizing she could not have children with the life she was living she struck a deal with the government to sell out the other siblings and lead them to their deaths. As to whether this was the proper course of action is up for debate, it both conflicts the theme and affirms it at the same time, being in somewhat hypocritical state. This undercuts one of the main messages of the movie, and leaves the viewer confused as to why the makers of the film opted to add the twist as it seems forced and against the main theme of the movie.