A poignantly creepy thriller that leaves me wanting to discuss and debate. For instance, the men of Stepford are obviously crueler than men of today who get sucked in by AI girlfriend chat apps -- but are the Stepford husbands weaker than today's men? A Stepford wife at least offers the illusion of life, and is designed, however chauvinistically, to be part of a household, a family. An AI girlfriend is a method for a man to completely detach from love and romance; it offers a way to safely reject life outside one's self.
For the love of all that is good in this world, do not watch the 2000s remake.
I loved this movie. "Al Pacino plays an irascible, mercurial crackpot" is an easy sell for me even if the movie were about something else entirely.
One of Pacino's lines stuck with me for entirely personal reasons. Every straight guy has some trait he likes in women. My brain gets thrown back to the Stone Age by curly hair. The line I've been quoting over and over goes roughly like this:
"Women... who made 'em? God must have been a fucking genius. They say the hair is everything. Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls and wanted to go to sleep forever?"
