History Film / WhatHappenedToMonday

* SiblingYinYang: All the Settman sisters have contrasting personalities. Monday is composed and responsible [[spoiler: with a secret bad girl side,]] and wears the 'Karen' mask the best. Tuesday is a stoner who is easily flustered, Wednesday is a hot tempered bodybuilder, Thursday is a tomboy and contrarian, Friday is the smartest and a but of a shut-in, Saturday is girly and artsy, and Sunday is elegant and a dreamer.

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler: Monday claims to Thursday she is entitled to be Karen Settman because she is the firstborn, and never really owns up to the fact that the situation that lead her to sell out her siblings is entirely her own fault.]]

** Adrian coming on to Tuesday initially makes him come across as an overly-aggressive creep. When you find out [[spoiler: he's actually in a rough sex relationship with Monday and he thinks Tuesday is her, it makes a lot more sense.]]

* RewatchBonus: When Cayman captures Tuesday, Tuesday pleads that she works at a bank and can give her a large bribe. Cayman says her that "the last one" (Monday) said the same thing. [[spoiler:She did, but in a different context: Monday offered her money to get rid of the other sisters for her.]]

** When it is said that if they are caught, all of the Settman girls will be put into cryostasis indefinitely, Friday notes that only six of them would and that one would be allowed to remain free. [[spoiler: This is pretty much Monday's entire motive for selling her sisters out.]]

* WhamLine: "Last night, I had a dream this whole building erupted and spewed out all the siblings. There were so many of them. [[spoiler:A sea of little bodies, scorched by flames...]]"

* BedTrick: Saturday pulls one on Adrian unintentionally, as she didn't know he was seeing Monday but realizes that sleeping with him is the best way to get hack into the C.A.B. when he's distracted. It also turns out to be her first time.

InAWorld TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, where a population explosion threatens the sustainability of the planet, the [[PopulationControl population is limited to only one child per family]] in a decision spearheaded by Nicolette Cayman (Creator/GlennClose). The law is strictly enforced; any siblings caught will be forcibly put into cryosleep, to be awoken only when the population abates. Complicating this, crops genetically modified to feed the massive population has produced a large number of multiples, including those birthed by [[DeathByChildbirth Karen Settman]], who has a litter of ''seven'' identical girls. Their grandfather (Creator/WillemDafoe) secretly takes them all in and hatches a plan to keep them safe: after naming each of them after a day in the week, he allows each one to leave their secure apartment on the day of the week they're named after in order to socialize, with all the girls taking on the singular identity of Karen Settman.

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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Takes place in 2073, where technology is somewhat more advanced, but the population situation much more dire.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Cayman [[JerkAssHasAPoint has a point]] in banning siblings considering there was no way the world could hold the massive population growth suffered. [[spoiler:Killing the siblings instead of freezing them in cryosleep as promised, however...]]

Decades pass, and the girls ([[ActingForTwo all played by]] Creator/NoomiRapace) have all managed to evade suspicion and capture, though some are beginning to grow restless and resentful of being unable to have discrete public lives. Eldest sister Monday admonishes them and reminds them of the importance of keeping up the charade before leaving for her day -- only to disappear on her way home from work. As the rest of the sisters work to find her, they find themselves mercilessly hunted down by the brutal Child Allocation Bureau, and the sinister secrets of the C.A.B. begin to come to light.

* ShoutOut: The doorman quotes Creator/LangstonHughes' poem "Harlem." (What happens to a dream deferred?)

* DwindlingParty: Monday vanishes first, and Tuesday is captured and presumably killed when going out to look for her. [[spoiler:Sunday, Wednesday, and Saturday are killed one by one by the C.A.B., and Friday sacrifices herself to save Thursday. Monday and Tuesday are revealed to both be alive, but Monday is killed by Thursday.]]

Decades pass, and the girls ([[ActingForTwo all played by]] Creator/NoomiRapace) have all managed to evade suspicion and capture, though some are beginning to grow restless and resentful of being unable to have discrete public lives. Eldest sister Monday admonishes them and reminds them of the importance of keeping up the charade before leaving for her day -- only to disappear on her way home from work. As the rest of the sisters work to find her, they find themselves mercilessly hunted down by the merciless Child Allocation Bureau, and the sinister secrets of the C.A.B. begin to come to light.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The proliferation of genetically modified crops has led to a rise in this. UpToEleven with the Settman sisters, who are septuplets. Of course, to avoid the law, the sisters have to stay looking exactly the same physically when in public to keep up the charade, which means they have to share every detail about what happened during their day and match the physical condition they were last seen in -- including having the same finger injury.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tuesday and Thursday are free to live their lives in public, and the unborn children of Monday and Adrian are growing in an artificial womb. Cayman is also arrested and facing the death penalty. However, five of the sisters are dead, the one-child policy is dismantled, and humanity has no solution to save itself from overpopulation. The film ends with row after row of multi-decker infant cribs]].

* DatingCatwoman: The sisters discover that Monday was dating Adrian, a checkpoint guard and Bureau worker.

* DisappearedDad: Terrence notes that the father of his daughter Karen's children was unknown, and it remains that way throughout the story, with Terrence instead acting as a father figure to them all.

** Another less subtle hint is [[spoiler:when she tells Thursday that she betrayed her sisters for her family, while moving her hand slightly toward her belly]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Monday scolds the sisters for wanting lives and relationships of their own, all while scheming to get rid of them to be the only Karen Settman, and also while secretly having a relationship with Adrian.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Cayman is clearly ''not'' okay with [[spoiler:the whole child mass murder thing]], even admits having nightmares about it, and focuses on the doctor's assurance that it's a painless procedure as her way to keep her mental balance. But it does work, and so she has to keep it going.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: The sisters were raised in isolation for the formative years of their life with only Terrence to raise them, yet when grown into adults, they all have Noomi Rapace's dialect, which is much different from Willem Dafoe's.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The sisters realize something's wrong when Monday doesn't return home for the brief, which she's never late for.

* TrashLanding: Subverted. Wednesday attempts this [[spoiler: and ends up landing in an empty dumpster.]] [[{{Irony}} Turns out trash day is Wednesday.]]

* VasquezAlwaysDies: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:Though Thursday and Wednesday are both tomboys, the tougher ActionGirl Wednesday dies while Thursday lives, though GirlyGirl Saturday is killed off too.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One can guess that Terrence eventually passed away from old age, but we just stop seeing or hearing of him when the film shifts to the sisters as adults.

* BorrowedBiometricBypass: C.A.B. agents use fingerprint-locked guns. Wednesday ends up amputating the finger of one agent to use his machine gun on the others.

* EmpireWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:All those siblings advertised as being put into cryosleep until the population goes down? They're all being killed immediately.]]
* EyeScream: Tuesday's eye is ripped out and used by C.A.B. to enter the apartment.

** Later on, Wednesday cuts the finger of a C.A.B. operative and sticks it to her stump in order to be able to use his fingerprint-locked gun.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Cayman is clearly ''not'' okay with [[spoiler:the whole child mass murder thing]], even admits having nightmares about it, and focuses on the doctors's assurance that it's a painless procedure as her way to keep her mental balance. But it does work, and so she has to keep it going.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Monday, upon being shot by Thursday tries to shoot at Cayman but gets a more fatal wound by a C.A.B. agent instead.]]