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Also Known As: What happened to Monday? |
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| Year of first release: 2017 | |
| Director: Tommy Wirkola | |
| Actors: Noomi Rapace, Willem Dafoe, Glenn Close, Marwan Kenzari | |
| Country: GB, F, B, USA | |
| Genre: SF, Action, Drama | |
| Conditions of visioning: 11.09.2017, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English with German subtitle | |
| Synopsis: Nicolette Cayman (Close) lead research on biology and her political power managed to impose rules of natality control. When Terrence Settman (Dafoe) gets seven daughters, these had to come in the clandestinity. Over years they develop differently and each of them goes out for school, later job work, only one day per week. | |
| Review: The plot is amazing. And the evolution of the story is great! The seven sisters are used to give a rhythm to the story and the dramatic plot. When the first one disappears, they all believe she has been attacked and stick together against the controlling society. The story has no flaw but some contradictions that are hidden by the very rhythm action. Even if one could indeed say that Noomi Rapace did a great job in covering seven roles, but most of these are very cliché and simply done. Like put a hoody on the shoulders and you can play the rebel. Or wear glasses and sit on a chair and you can play the computer nerd. Due to the high pace it might have been impossible to make better. In one scene, the boyfriend of one sister sleeps with another sibling and this scene is really well acted by Noomi Rapace. I mean of course the part when she discovers his apartment and when she feels this kind of contact for the first time. The role of Cayman who already managed to let the natality get controlled but is still running for a political high position is quite contradictory. Ok. At the end, all these contradictions and weaknesses do not save the excellent plot that could have become an excellent movie. It is good to see a new movie by the Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola of Dead Snow. |
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Rating: 5 /10
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Seven sisters (2017)
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Seen on 09.12.2017 on an in-flight entertainment system. I agree with you that the plot is great. If you think about it more than five minutes you should know that there are too many of us on this planet. Totalitarian is then the answer to this crisis in that European society, like it was in 1984, or in Children of Men to solve the opposite problem of under-population.
ReplyDeleteThe simplified characterization of the different sisters was I am afraid necessary to not loose the audience. Noomi Rapace did a good job I find, well in fact seven good jobs, and the editing and special effects make this multiplication of roles transparent.
Knowing a couple of SF classics like Soylent Green or Cloud Atlas I had predicted the ending. What I was not expecting is what happens to the sisters.
Something I miss in the movie is: what the hell happened to their grandfather?? (and not father like you wrote).
My rating: 6/10.