.. with all the babies growing and being housed? Anybody get this? Did Monday have something to do with this and had some good intent after all? Or Cayman? Really had no idea what that was all about. Can anyone explain?
sharejust finished watching it. honestly, i'm not sure of the ending either. it shows monday had 2 babies unborn that she was protecting by that guy but with all the babies, no clue. it appears that cayman was reforming the laws just as long as everyone could take care of their children (yeah right...doesn't happen it real life). i liked the movie and it's premise from the beginning. it reminded me just a tad of soylent green (harrison ford). definitely makes you think for one side and the other. apparently, in 30 yrs there had been a radical decline of births but from the film, it appeared like just as many people. also, it states i believe that people were still hiding their other children. what i didn't quite get was the beginning...he was the grandfather and what happened? his daughter got killed or what? overall, very good movie except too much violence for me but i just put my head down during those parts!! good makeup and acting by the lead for sure.
shareI had presumed she died in childbirth.
sharei thought she died from her injuries and then the boyfriend and her twin took the babies??!! hmm..
what did you think of the movie amac? and that whole grandfather scenario?
Opps I had meant the mother of the 7 girls. I had presumed she had died during childbirth. She had chosen a hospital that wouldn't report her and her estranged father was her emergency contact.
The ending I think was like you said, not sure about why all the other babies were there though. Hopefully someone picked up on something we missed and can explain it!
I liked the movie overall. I think Netflix did really well with this one!
thanks...that makes sense about the mom now...didn't think of that one!
shareRegarding the grandfather of the seven sisters, in the opening scene there is dialogue with a doctor and this is what they say:
the mother of the seven sisters knew she was pregnant with septuplets and didn't want to keep just one child. To avoid the other babies be confiscated by the bureau she chose to give birth in a clandestine clinic. BUt as this clinic is clandestine they don't have all the equipment that a proper hospital would have, so when there were complications the doctor did not have the means to save the mother so she died. Now the grandfather says he and his daughter weren't close so he has no idea who the father of the kids are, so he decides to bring them up himself.
Cayman was facing murder charges, so I don't think she's the one reforming the laws.
shareShe betray her sisters to protect her babies twins ..I guess all those babies are all people who was in hiding .. the leabo looking sister is taking her place as the mom
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Just saw the movie yesterday and was blown away by the story and acting!
To answer your question indigodaddy:
***SPOILER ALERTS****
Monday's fetuses were taken out of her so they could keep maturing as she was dying. They were put in an incubator in a neo natal ward. When the camera pulls back to show dozens and dozens of screaming babies in this one neo natal ward, we get back to the issue at hand which is : overpopulation.
The movie poses a very difficult question: they present a world where there are too many humans. The "one child policy"'s enforcement is terrible, there is no denying it BUT what is the solution? If they don't curtail the population growth the world will go into worldwide famine and civilization will fall apart.
We follow Monday and her sisters throughout the whole story, we see and hear how this one city is just overrun by humans, anytime the characters step into the street you just have a sea of humans, it's demented. We feel for these sisters and their yearning to live and be themselves. But then that neonatal unit brings us crashing back down to reality: there are no easy answers. Once Cayman gets exposed the one child policy is rolled back due to public outcry, pregnant wormen come out of the woodwork and natality goes up again and so we see in this one neo natal unit the dozens and dozens of new borns. What world will they inherit? The food shortage has not been resolved...so in case one thought this was some kind of happy ending, that final scene reminds us that it isn't. The original problem is still there. It does not offer a solution, it just reminds us that the original issue is still there...just brilliant IMO. I thought this was really clever :)
I just watched this on Netflix. One of the best films I have seen in a long time. Good enough to get me to sign up and post on MC. Good plot and the action scenes with Noomi Rapace were quite intense. I don't know what technical magic they used to have 7 sisters played by one actress but it was done so well that I didn't care.
There were a few twists. Surprised that Tuesday had survived and that Monday had betrayed her sisters. Predictably the "bad" sister dies. But I flipped in the end and felt some empathy for Monday when it was revealed that she was pregnant and was protecting her unborn children. If she chose her sisters, she would have had to abort her babies to maintain the facade (like having to cut off finger in the earlier scene). And with the abolishment of the one baby law, they were up to their eyeballs in newborns in no time and Earth was back on its course to probable destruction.