I hadn't seen The Stepford Wives in over 30 years when I got to see it again. I
had forgotten how long it was and how slow it moved. At least 20 minutes could
have been cut out of it.
Peter Masterson and Katharine Ross a New York City upper class Yuppie couple gets this idea to move to the suburbs and Fairfield County in Connecticut is as posh a place as you'll find. It's really his idea, but she goes along.
It looks ideal but to Ross she notices changes coming over some of the women. It's like they're drained of individuality and ideas. They become obsessed with just being housekeepers.
It's a pretty interesting thought, these folks becoming pod people for the 70s. How is it done and Ross is determined to find out.
Let's just say that Stepford is a community where none of these newfangled ideas about destroying the patriarchy won't find their way there. No subversion in this community.
For women everywhere who have evolved beyond Phyllis Schafly this is a scary movie. No monsters real or imagined, still a frightening in 1975 that the moviegoing public found. Katherine Ross is caught up in reactionary place and is a perfect portrait of a trapped woman.
Talk about upholding traditional values.
Peter Masterson and Katharine Ross a New York City upper class Yuppie couple gets this idea to move to the suburbs and Fairfield County in Connecticut is as posh a place as you'll find. It's really his idea, but she goes along.
It looks ideal but to Ross she notices changes coming over some of the women. It's like they're drained of individuality and ideas. They become obsessed with just being housekeepers.
It's a pretty interesting thought, these folks becoming pod people for the 70s. How is it done and Ross is determined to find out.
Let's just say that Stepford is a community where none of these newfangled ideas about destroying the patriarchy won't find their way there. No subversion in this community.
For women everywhere who have evolved beyond Phyllis Schafly this is a scary movie. No monsters real or imagined, still a frightening in 1975 that the moviegoing public found. Katherine Ross is caught up in reactionary place and is a perfect portrait of a trapped woman.
Talk about upholding traditional values.