At the end of the film when we see Joanna in the supermarket, she looks more normal than the other women. her eyes are different and she looks more like herself. I always wondered if she was still her old self just posing as a robotic wife.
shareI think they got her and it was the robot in the supermarket scene. I think that it was important that Joanna fail in her mission to escape, because it was her need to rescue her children that kept her from escaping. It's not something that we like to admit, but quite often it is children that unwittingly put the lock on the trap.
shareShe has been replaced with a robot. It wouldn't make sense any other way. It's very bleak, I know, but it's essential for the philosophical nature of the movie. Patriarchy wins, sadly.
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She was definitely replaced by the robot. Her movements were completely robotic, she was full of makeup and looked completely different. If she won at the mansion that night then the men were going to be defeated anyway. She would have triumphed not been posing as a robot in the end. The last scene was too graphic as she was going to be murdered, but that's what happened.
Her movements were robotic and she didn't blink at all. Her eyes were just stuck wide open like a robot. You don't see so much hurt in her, what you see or are supposed to see is a lifeless robot. She plays it as best she can but obviously it's not really a robot guys.
She plays it as best she can but obviously it's not really a robot guys.
I thought one of the best parts of the final scene was the black couple, who had just moved in, arguing. The husband says something like "I don't want to spend all day in the supermarket", because they're arguing over a product. I wonder what was the intention? Just knowing that she's going to be a robot too? It seems there's a point to be made that it's a black couple. Is it that the shallow values of bourgeois America do not discriminate? Or that a black woman who was subservient to her man will stick out like a sore thumb in Stepford? (not that it would matter, as Stepford is self-contained pretty much). Any thoughts? Because the film was lily- white up to the very end.
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To me it was the black woman who was complaining about being in the market all day. The man was saying it was a nice neighborhood, etc. Earlier in the movie the spinster spoke about this couple and how natural it was for them to be there. I think that final scene with the black couple was two fold, She was the only non- robotic woman in the market. I really wished she did not have that scarf on her head. And two, that as long as the man had the wealth, status, and desire to have a Stepford Wife you would live there.
I personally love the supermarket scene. It is so sad to think that the real woman were killed and replaced by robots BUT to see how absolutely perfect the market and the ladies are is like nothing ever seen. It is a classic moment in film.
There was no intention in that scene other than that they were having 'marital issues' too. We already know that every couple that comes to Stepford is going to become 'part of it': Every husband already belongs to the Men's Association, and every woman is doomed.
The race of the couples is completely inconsequential. If it shows anything, it shows that the desire for a submissive wife there crosses all racial lines.
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.
These guys are real a-holes; even Tina Louise' husband who didn't like her playing tennis. Joanna character should have cracked her husband's head wide open before leaving for club to get her kids.
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