What Happened to Monday Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Tommy Wirkola
Production: Netflix
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
TV-MA
Year:
2017
123 min
5,739 Views


May I see?

Very good.

Go, go, go, go, go!

Pay attention, girls.

Tomorrow... is a big day.

You know how there are

seven days in the week.

Well, starting tomorrow,

you will each get to go outside

on the day of the week that is your name.

That means Sunday will get

to go outside on Sunday,

Monday on Monday,

Tuesday on Tuesday, and so on.

In here, I want you to be who you are,

dress the way you wish.

I want you to be creative

and express yourself.

But, outside of these walls,

you will all take on the singular identity

of Karen Settman, named after your mother.

- Can I play outside?

- Yes, you can, as long as it's your day.

But you can never go outside together

at the same time, ever.

Even with your bracelet.

And, wherever you are

and whatever you're doing...

you can never tell a soul

that you're a sibling.

That's very important. You understand?

Okay. Well, we begin tomorrow.

Starting with you, Thursday.

You ready to do this?

Okay.

The following items may not be

taken through checkpoints

without prior permission:

any sharp objects, flammables, or chemicals.

For your safety and security,

have your bags ready for inspection

by an enforcement officer.

Please have your wristbands

ready for inspection.

No unauthorized persons

are allowed to enter the sector.

Don't forget, you're the one

and only Karen Settman.

The end of the day meeting

is the most important part of your day.

It's the time to share

every detail with your siblings.

Okay?

Mm...

- Oh, God.

- Poor kid. Straight to the cryobank.

With Cayman running for Parliament,

security's getting tighter.

I f***ing hate that b*tch.

I don't know.

Maybe cryosleep isn't such a bad idea.

We turn ourselves in, get frozen,

play Sleeping Beauty

until the population drops.

I heard you still dream,

like, horrible nightmares

for hundreds of years.

By the time you wake up,

everyone you know and love will be gone.

Well, we go to sleep together,

we wake up together.

The Child Allocation Act

will be a thing of the past,

and we can finally live our own lives.

Are we really gonna have

this conversation again?

Why can't you just accept

that this is your family?

This isn't a family.

It's a repressive regime.

I didn't pick this life

any more than you did.

Yet you live it so perfectly.

Karen Settman from cradle to grave.

- It's disgusting.

- What do you care?

Your only ambition was to be

a total loser, which you are.

F*** you, Monday.

Just because I have my own personality and

dreams, and I want to have a relationship

that is more than just a random f***

with someone that I will never see again?

I'm sick to death

of Miss Karen f***ing Settman.

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Max Botkin

Max Botkin is an American screenwriter and producer. Botkin's original script for What Happened to Monday? was featured on the 2010 Blacklist for best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. more…

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