Why did the clones have to be a big secret? Wouldn't everything have been a lot easier if he had just told people, or at least his wife, what was going on?
Along similar lines, 2 suggested cloning Laura so he and 3 didn't have to be so lonely. Sounds like a good idea to me. Why didn't they?
well for one, cloning is illegal. so that's why they didn't tell anyone. Also, would you believe your spouse if they told or showed you that they were cloned? lol.
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"Also, would you believe your spouse if they told or showed you that they were cloned? lol."
....Uhhmmmm... if she were shown the clones, how could she not believe it having seen it with her own eyes...
the point was so michael could get away from work and
wife to relax and to spend more time with wife without
work knowing about it.real question why did no.2 who was
almost just like keaton in skills and everything clone
another and why did doctors do it.would they know cloning
a clone go bad and be like a bad copy.would they not refuse
and inform first or real keaton thats the question.
Cloning was not yet a legal issue when the film was made... It was railroaded into the plotline, just that...
shareBecause that's how the script was written. If they told everyone and let everything out in the open and cloned Laura for the other clones then the movie would have been dull and not as funny.
shareWhy did the clones have to be a big secret? Wouldn't everything have been a lot easier if he had just told people, or at least his wife, what was going on?
Which was what he eventually decided to do: start his own company. The film is about his own inner turmoil and the comedy of the situation. Everyone asks themselves "How much more could I get done if there were two of me?", so this film sort of takes us through the fantasy, and teaches us that we'd be better off with just the one. It's not really about the science of cloning or how to live with clones. Some more recent "What if?" movies this reminds me of are Click, ("What if I could fast forward/pause/rewind my life?") and Seventeen Again ("What if I could be young again?"). They all ultimately learn a lesson and go back to face their ordinary life again with renewed perspective. I guess it all goes back to It's a Wonderful Life, and has become a formula by now, but it works.
shareCouldn't have said it better myself rfesa. You're totally correct.
Its a comedy people. Its supposed to be fun. You don't analyze this kind of film. Its just entertainment.
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Thank you, this was one of my thoughts as well, but I forgot about this one, as this movie keeps PILING things I have to question and I guess I would've needed to clone my brain to prevent it from overloading from the BS in this movie.
It didn't seem to be a big deal to the doc, so why was it such a big deal to Doug?
Couldn't Doug have taken the doc's calling card and suggestions and then talk it with his wife during dinner? Sure, it would sound crazy, but the could both go to the doc the next day and discuss it and then she'd see for herself. I think this would be the 'realistic approach'.
Isn't this big enough a decision to tell the wife about? Why do ANYTHING behind your wife's back that can seriously affect her? Especially considering the wieners of the clones ended up inside the wife, and would she REALLY have given consent to giving her coochy to strangers, JUST BECAUSE THEY LOOK LIKE HER HUSBAND?
We have to remember these are NOT Doug, they just LOOK like him. So in essence, Doug orcehstrated a situation, where his wife becomes a swinger and a slút without her consent. Due to Doug's actions and essentially the decision to keep the whole thing a SECRET and making the decisions without her wife knowing (so, behind her back), her wife ended up having coitus with at least two strangers without knowing about it.
I mean, basically Doug raped his own wife by proxy!
So which is really worse?
1) Raping your own wife by proxy - TWICE! (Two strangers copulate with your wife without her knowing)
2) Telling her someone created a 'clone' of you that looks like you and yet is an individual human being
WHICH IS WORSE?!