Headscratchers / What Happened to Monday

• So everyone in a crowd of thousands remained silent while a child murderer gave a patronizing speech trying to justify her actions?
  • They were in shock. Do you expect them to rush the stage and tear her limb from limb?
    • I never said that, don't strawman me. I don't expect everyone in a crowd of thousands to remain silent while a child murderer gives a patronizing speech trying to justify her actions. I expect at least some of them to boo her, throw stuff at her, hold up signs, and shout things like "murderer" and "baby killer".
• How comes nobody noticed that Karen Settman buys seven times more food than the standard person, in a world where payments are traced via your electronic bracelet?
  • I guess we can only handwave that there must be some kind of black market (even though at the beginning, we are led to believe that even the most scummy guy selling rats in a wet market is supposedly more connected and under control than my local grocer's). Cause even pretending they are pulling off the good ol' "put your dead grandpa in the freezer" pension fraud, that their entire attic is dedicated to indoor super-GMO gardening, and that their day of the week they stuff themselves with "accessory food" (like sandwiches at a work buffet, or appetizers in a nightclub) like there was no tomorrow, I still feel like you are short of the absolute required minimum of 75000 calories per week.
• If part of the idea is to reduce global warming (among other problems) why burn up the children? Why not lethal injection? Then you could have “cryo storage” that turned out to hold only corpses.
  • I don't think you understood the point of cryosleep? It was just a comfortable lie to sell to the population, it wasn't actually supposed to be a workable solution (a bit like that one Final Solution). If any, the true headscratcher is how we are supposed to buy that anybody not complicit to the core could have believed something so patently unproven. Like, even on the most conservative estimate of the rate of births per pregnancy just increasing by 50%, in a mid-sized european country that's still like 200K extra newborns to dispose off yearly. Multiply that by 30 years, and now even just Romania would have to account for the space of 60 Camp Nou stadiums... all the while nobody knows, hears or *is even allowed* to ask questions on the matter? Like, at least with the Nazi there was the "moral excuse" that you weren't even allowed to care for the untermensch.
• Why did Cayman feel it was necessary to hold Tuesday hostage to ensure Monday's cooperation, when Monday was willing enough to let her sisters be killed by Cayman's mooks anyway?
  • I think that was more insurance in terms of "If you ever step out of line, I can reveal you have a sibling and get you executed for it" than trying to use Tuesday as the usual hostage. Cayman knew Monday was willing to let Tuesday die, but keeping Tuesday around provided evidence of Monday being a sibling, which could potentially screw over her new life if anyone found out.
    • Yeah, it was even addressed on-screen when the money transfer gets actually signed. Even the kill-the-babies woman is impressed by the absolute lack of a moral compass of somebody selling off their family.
• If food was an issue, why weren't the bodies of the siblings kept to be harvested? Sure, some people have moral oppositions to it, but they'd never know, just as they don't know about what really happens to the children.

  • Kinda hard to convince yourself you’re the good guy when you’re force-feeding people all the children you murdered. She already has nightmares about killing the kids; she’s not itching for a chance to descend further into supervillainy.

  • If population control was the goal, why not just use forced sterilization and grow their children in artificial wombs?
    • There was a sign in the movie that said sterilization, so maybe there’s a party advocating it.
  • Speaking of which, if population control is so important, why do they not have mandatory selective reductions? (You could even still have the plot, by simply saying the sisters' mother wanted all of her children and went to ground before she could be slated for the procedure.)
    • Since whole film is an Author Tract about evils of population control and resistance of pro-lifers, Evil Government must do it the cruelest and stupidest way possible, otherwise it would be just another China and viewers would start Rooting for the Empire.
• So how does genetically modified food cause widespread multiple births?
  • So the movie can happen.
• Why does Nicolette want Monday to kill her siblings? They're already grown and have been living in society for decades by then, so what's the point?
  • Standard overpopulation issues—six more mouths to feed and water, six more bodies to clothe, it's a drain on resources if six extra people continue to live. Also, if it is known that seven sisters were allowed to continue living, it creates a precedent. The One-child policy cannot be enforced seriously if there is at least one "legal" exception.
• How are we supposed to understand Cayman's current.. standing executive role/job? If (as its presumed director) she's just abusing of CAB's resources, then it doesn't make sense at all that she's keeping such a high profile with literal indiscriminate daylight mass shootings. If instead the conspiracy is way larger (say, at the level of the government), then the movie's immediate cut-and-dry ending is BS. And it was fucking stupid to headshot the (as innocent as useless) doorman, when any made-up warrant could have been easily obtained.
• Similarly, how are we supposed to understand Monday's position? She's able to introduce a freaking .357 magnum revolver inside the headquarters of what could basically amount to world police (a police normally so strict that they even have checkpoints just to travel between different city districts). Why should they have let her, even with all the nuisances which they were fully confident to be able to take care by themselves? And why should she even have taken such a risk at all, given it wasn't until the extemporaneous bathroom scene that she became aware the plan was shacking and thus to be in danger?