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Totally unreaistic for this day in age

posted 16 years ago by Cali82
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Ok in the original the women like most of that time period were housewives or at most worked part time before the kids....they had no means to leave without their husband.

The remake would have us believe women with careers (t.v exec, ad exec, engineer etc) had no choice and were stuck. As soon as they felt it was weird or whatever they more than had the means to take off. If it takes 4 months to prep for the "change" then they could not risk arousing suspicion so a woman saying "I am taking the kids to dinner in the city" or "...to the city to shop" would not be denied or questionned.

Yes, we are suppose to suspend belief but there is a difference between suspension of disbelief and idocrasy. Sorry but an educated woman who has or until recently had a high paying affluent career(as all the women supposidly had)could easily get the hell out. To make it work for THIS day in age there would need to be serious changes to explain why these women could not just leave. In different eras it makes sense because the woman had nothing without her husband but that is no longer the case. Sorry for the rant but among the general stupidity that is this movie, this is one plot hole that bothers me.

[–] coney_island_baby 15 years ago

I agree, this book and 1975 film were very 'of their time', when women were tied to their husbands because they often weren't employed and because divorce laws were much more favourable to men. In western culture now it isn't feasable.

If the makers of this movie had actually wanted to make a decent point about women's lib (which is what the book is really about) they could have set it somewhere else in the world where women are still treated as second class citizens. Unfortunately they thought this was simply a good opportunity to make a less than average 'comedy'.

[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 15 years ago

I think at least for the main wife, she was fired almost killed, had a breakdown and was about to loose her husband. As far as why the rest of the wives did it I would need a better back story.

I agree that it would a hard sell for these type of women to do this, but I guess if they really loved their husbands and was afraid they would loose them.

My problem was more of how they was changed more of how they was willing to stay there long enough to change.

It might make more sense if the wives left the husbands so the husbands had Robots built to look and sound like their wives but was robots.

A man can change his stars