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I watched the original last night, it was pretty good, but Im confused on the ending and premise of the movie...
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When she goes into the bedroom within the mens association facility, and her 'double' is there in the room, she has solid black eyes, which makes me think it was a demon...but I was under the impression, the whole plot of this movie, was these men were creating robotic wives (animatronics so to speak), there are a few incidents thru out the movie where some of the wives 'short circuit', and begin doing things over and over, like a robot malfunctioning, and even when she stabs her friend, there is no blood.
Question is, were the Stepford wives demonic or robotic/androids?
In the book, it was part of the horror that you never really knew if there were "replacements" of any kind or if it was just the viewpoint character going nuts. Right to the last page.
The implication was that they were robotic — remember that one of the husbands had worked on Disney animatronics. I think there was a computer/AI guy in there somewhere, too.
The movie putzed it up by making it clear, at the end, that they were replacements and were robotic or something quite like that. The black eyes are... just nonsense, really. Spooky-ooky to clue the clueless viewer.
Then, of course, the sequel, maybe one of the TV movies, made it that there were no replacements, just that the women had been brainwashed/programmed into being, well, Stepford wives.
In the book, it was part of the horror that you never really knew if there were "replacements" of any kind or if it was just the viewpoint character going nuts. Right to the last page.
The implication was that they were robotic — remember that one of the husbands had worked on Disney animatronics. I think there was a computer/AI guy in there somewhere, too.
The movie putzed it up by making it clear, at the end, that they were replacements and were robotic or something quite like that. The black eyes are... just nonsense, really. Spooky-ooky to clue the clueless viewer.
Then, of course, the sequel, maybe one of the TV movies, made it that there were no replacements, just that the women had been brainwashed/programmed into being, well, Stepford wives.
Read the book. Forget the movie versions.
I disagree. I thought it was always perfectly clear that they were robots.
In the end, the viewpoint character (whose name utterly escapes me) has locked herself in a bathroom and They — the men — are coming for her. Whether to replace her with a robot or gently take her away to the funny farm is left unanswered.
Question is, were the Stepford wives demonic or robotic/androids?
Robot. Isn't there a scene where one of them accidentally stabs one of the stepford wives with a knife & instead of bleeding, she just goes back & forth, repeating herself like a malfunctioning robot or toy.
The black eyes thing confused me, typically in movies, that is a demon, but I guess the poster above is right, it was just done to be spooky. I also noticed her replacement had much larger breasts too. LOL
I'd gotten the impression somewhere that the black eyes were because the husband really loved his wife's eyes, and that was the one part of the replacement they were having trouble getting right?
The black eyes thing confused me, typically in movies, that is a demon, but I guess the poster above is right, it was just done to be spooky. I also noticed her replacement had much larger breasts too. LOL
I'm guessing it was intentional to have Katherine Ross go braless in many scenes so the difference at the
end was quite "pronounced." Designed by Male.
Us gals always needed a "Stepford Husbands" type movie.
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