While a warning was given before the movie about it containing scenes with violence, I was unaware of the amount of violence involving blood and death. I went into the movie “blind”, so I did not know much about the movie beyond the basic plot of seven identical sisters playing out their lives as the same person when in the outside world when suddenly one day, one of the sisters disappears. I had the unique opportunity to watch a movie called “What Happened to Monday” with my fellow Rose Scholars, and the movie left me both horrified and fascinated by the events that unfolded. Posted in Flora’s Friday Film: What Happened to Monday, 2/9 Negatives and Positives of “What Happened to Monday” I’ve always wondered what it would be like to have a bigger family and thought about the what-ifs. Thankfully, we moved to America soon after and my mom became pregnant two years after with my little brother. My parents thought about the kind of life the child would have and decided against having the kid and had an abortion in China. When you have more than one child in China, the children do not have citizenship, healthcare, and also are unable to attend school. Unfortunately, this pregnancy was not received as a blessing. In other circumstances, they would have happily had the child.
Half a year after I was born, my parents found out my mother was pregnant again. Though there’s more a stigma against having daughters in China, as educated individuals, my parents were overjoyed to be having a daughter, knowing that they wouldn’t be able to have a son.
At this time I was born, China’s one-child policy was strictly enforced. Only recently did China adopt the two-child policy.
My parents and I immigrated from China when I was two years old. Though the movie takes place in the future in 2043, its not as far from reality as it seems. “What Happened to Monday” is an enjoyable, plot-twisting dystopian film in which overpopulation results in a one-child policy.
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