What Happened to Monday

The film puts seven women at the center, and Noomi Rapace plays all of them. The sisters include fighters, a computer expert, a business worker, and a leader. Director Tommy Wirkola said the early script used seven brothers, but he changed them to sisters because the group felt more interesting and because more women could take action roles. The film has no diversity-first group of characters, so the signal is mainly its strong female focus.

The opening speech blames rising population, food shortages, climate change, and genetically changed crops for the crisis. The campaign speeches defend a one-child law as a way to save the planet and future children. The film does not use modern race, class, or party slogans, so this is a small environmental and population-policy signal.

The sisters spend their lives hiding their separate selves inside one public identity. The story makes personal freedom, family duty, and control over childbirth central to the conflict. Monday’s pregnancy gives the plot a clear focus on a woman protecting her unborn children from the state. The film treats these issues as personal and family struggles rather than a wider race or sexuality campaign.

The Child Allocation Bureau watches citizens, hides the truth about extra children, and kills children while claiming to protect the future. The story condemns state control over women’s childbirth and ends with the law being abolished. The target is a fictional strict government, not capitalism, religion, or traditional family life, so the woke signal stays low.

Tommy Wirkola has a cached score of 11/100, while José David Montero, Max Botkin, and Kerry Williamson have cached scores of 0/100. Their stored summaries describe horror, action, and commercial genre work rather than a strong activist record. Casting director Gillian Hawser has a cached score of 75/100 for public diversity work, which fits the film’s women-centered casting choice. The wider creator context adds a mild signal, but it does not drive the story.