COVID and Climate Change

How the movie "What Happened to Monday?" gives us a glimpse into the future.

Intro

I recently saw the UK 2017 movie, “What happened to Monday? (WHTM)” It’s a sci-fi movie set in a dystopian future - which has a lot of elements from our current reality.

To provide a quick synopsis of the movie, in the year 2073, the greatest threat to humanity is overpopulation. The enforcement agency, the Child Allocation Bureau’s (CAB) goal is to prevent this from happening and, in doing so, ensures that all families are limited to one child. This child limination policy occurs within the movie, but we see this child limitaion policy in modern-day China. I found this movie eerily similar to what’s happening in our current world and what could happen in the future if we don’t change course.

Now with movies and films, if you’re not familiar with the topic, they have a way of “predicting the future.” This concept is known as predictive programming, in which movies show the audience “hints” of a reality. Mimesis as it may be known. In some circles, the belief is that films are prim…