The Netflix original movie, What Happened to Monday, portrays a dystopian world where the government, to combat overpopulation, enacts a single child policy. The government supposedly freezes the children for a later age of prosperity, but Terrence Settman rebuts this and insead raises his seven identical granddaughters with a single identity. This Netflix original covers a wide variety of interesting ideas and topics, but what interested me the most was the portrayal of the European Federation and the Government structure imposed.

In the movie’s first few minutes it explains how and why the one child policy, called the, “Child Allocation Act,” came into effect. It explains that Nicolette Cayman, a scientist, head of the Child Allocation Bureau (C.A.B.), and a candidate for parliament, created the …show more content…
Having a government that is a democracy with this level of oppression and dislike from the populous seems very unlikely. In one of the film’s first scenes a child is shown being taken away from her parents and thrown into a van by C.A.B. agents. This is met by disapproval by the crowd. This along with the number of cases discussed where siblings must be found and dealt with leads me to believe that there is not large public support for this kind of policy. Common sense and an understanding of contemporary politics would dictate that disapproval at the level the movie suggests would lead to massive change in the other direction by some level of government. This, in fact, is even shown at the end of the movie. After some negative information comes out about the process of enforcing the one child policy, the government quickly overturns the policy. The outrage grew, of course, due to the information but was already at extremely high levels beforehand. It is hard to believe that a government would go from no action to full repeal on a policy never well liked or