![]() It’s a promising setup that unfortunately never pays off. In order to skirt the law, the septuplets (all played by Noomi Rapace) pretend to be one person, with each of them venturing outside only one day a week. What Happened to Monday is set in a future in which a one-child policy is strictly enforced. ![]() “It’s just using it as an excuse to do all these very typical action movie things.” “It’s not actually dealing with the issue,” she says. Author Carrie Vaughn was interested to see a new take on the theme, but was disappointed that the movie doesn’t really explore any big ideas. Overpopulation has been a popular theme in science fiction for decades, from the movie Soylent Green, based on the Harry Harrison novel Make Room! Make Room! to the Star Trek episode “The Mark of Gideon.” And just this summer Netflix released What Happened to Monday, a dystopian sci-fi movie about a set of septuplets that must escape a population-controlling government.
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