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The Stepford Wives (1975)
In Bryan Forbes' great and shocking cautionary feminist
sci-fi/horror cult tale (an adaptation of Ira Levin's novel):
- the scene of new Stepford, Connecticut suburban
wives Joanna Eberhart and Bobbie Markowe (Katharine Ross and Paula
Prentiss) noting suspiciously that their seemingly-perfect neighbor
housewives only cleaned house and bowed to their husband's needs
- the garden party among the housewives and malfunctioning
Carol's (Nanette Newman) quote: "I'll just die if I don't get
this recipe!"
- the scene of the failed consciousness-raising session/discussion
as the wives extolled the virtues of Easy-On spray starch
- Bobbie acting robotically in the kitchen while serving
coffee to Joanna - being stabbed to test her humanity ("Do you
bleed?") - and going berserk due to severed wiring (twirling
and repeating monotonously): ("I was just going to give you
coffee? How could you do a thing like that? I thought we were friends!")
- the startling scene in which Joanna came face to face
with her semi-complete, sunken dark-eyed robotic double
- the image of the last haunting scene - all of the
flowery-dress-wearing wives pushing their shopping carts in the supermarket
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