Ever since childhood, have you ever had such an idea?
Hope more than once: I can become the perfect image of beautiful, sexy, gentle and generous or tall and handsome in TV dramas?
Or, more than once in the late night after an argument, tossing and turning fantasies:
Your significant other can be thinner, taller, and more beautiful,
More tolerance and patience, more self-awareness, less bad habit of smoking and drinking, less laziness and cock?
Today, Tuanzi would like to recommend a movie for everyone, called "Copying Your Wife".
01. The horrible truth under the perfect coat
This story tells the story of a tall, beautiful, successful, but grumpy superwoman-Joanna, who was fired from the company because of an accident on a show.
She was devastated, and in order to save the precarious family, she decided to go to a luxurious town in the suburbs with her husband and start over.
There is no poverty, no crime, and no sorrow in this small town called Stanford. Everything living here seems to be full of sunshine.
People live in luxurious villas and drive luxury cars. Husbands and wives love each other, and the neighbourhoods are friendly.
Moreover, it is also full of various high-tech. There are robot dogs that can interact with you but do not need to clean up excrement, and there are smart home appliances that can analyze various indicators of your body based on your physical signs.
The Joanna family, who had just arrived, felt that this place was simply the paradise they had dreamed of. But soon, she found something wrong.
The housewives here are all dressed in "appropriate" dresses, with exquisite and meticulous hairstyles, and walking at the dignified pace of a model, with a brilliant smile on their faces every moment.
She keenly caught this weirdness, but there was no evidence. Until she met two friends who had the same thoughts as her.
A fat, sloppy, but talented female writer, Barbie, and a sulky, super-venomous gay Roger.
The three wanted to integrate into the local community by holding a "reading club", but found that the invited housewives shared their reading experience as if they were reading a textbook. Several people's suspicions further intensified.
At this time, Roger, the only male in the trio, was invited to the local male club. Joanna and Barbie followed Roger to sneak into the club’s location. They wanted to learn the secrets of the male group, but found nothing.
However, unexpectedly, Roger disappeared. What was even more surprising was that he appeared at a rally in the small town a few days later. The originally feminine man had changed his appearance and became a confident and masculine politician.
Even more frightening is that she found a remote control with her name in her home, and when she searched for her neighbors on the Internet, she found the perfect and generous housewives:
Some are CEOs of airlines, some are candidates for the Supreme Court, and without exception, they are very successful women in their careers.
The frightened Joanna wanted to go to Barbie to discuss countermeasures, but found that Barbie's house, which had been messed up into a garbage dump, had become spotless overnight.
She is sloppy and eats ice cream. She is also dyed blonde, dressed in a decent dress and small high heels, and considerately meets all the children's requirements.
The most frightening thing is that Barbie accidentally put her hand on the fire of the gas stove while persuading Joanna. Not only was she not injured, she didn't even feel pain.
Shocked, Joanna drove to the school, trying to pick up the child and escape from this weird town, but the child has been picked up by her husband. Panicked, she drove to the house again, only to find it was empty.
Desperate, she came to the house of the men's club, but found that all the men in the town were wearing the same uniform, waiting for her arrival. Among them, her husband is included.
The leader of the men's club, Mike told Joanna and his wife a "woman transformation" plan, which can transform the old, obese, and violent women into a perfect young, sexy, and docile robot .
All the women in the town have accepted this transformation, and Joanna is the next target.
Desperate and fearful, Joanna asked her husband Walter for help, but she did not shake Walter's firm heart...
02. What caused the malformation of these marriages
After watching the movie, you may think: The married life of this group of people is really too deformed.
So what caused this deformity?
Most people believe that it is an imbalance in the competition for social status and influence between men and women after economic development , as well as an asymmetry between traditional male chauvinism and the concept of new women .
But in marriage, Tuanzi believes that the bottom line is: the issue of love and human nature .
In the film, when Joanna's husband Walter attended the club party for the first time, Walter said: "Life here is like everyone's dream. Your wives are very-"
Then the camera focused on the men who were playing games, playing cards, and drinking. They shrugged, laughed tacitly, and then continued to say: "Obesity? Long-winded?"
And after Joanna discovered all the truth, Walter said to her: "You have always been better than me, you have a higher education, dance better than me, earn more than me, eloquence is better than me, and even better than me in bed. I’m good. We married a super girl and had to be your supporters and vassals. But we have been ignored."
The reason they reform their wives, in the final analysis, is because they want more "love and care" and the "perfect" happiness in their dreams.
In reality, they were neglected, disappointed and angry, they felt that it was some kind of flaws in their wives (not good enough, too ambitious, too self-centered), which led to the misfortune of the marriage .
But in fact, what caused them to go to extremes was their own lack and selfishness.
The famous psychologist, Fromm once said: "In modern society, one of the important reasons people cannot learn to love is that they believe that love is a question of object, not a question of ability. Take it for granted that love itself is very simple and difficult. It is to find an object of love."
Everyone’s marriage has problems. Compared with blame and killing, people should communicate and understand, or simply leave.
But this group of people in the film chose to substitute themselves into the victim's mind, and blamed all their faults on their wives.
Then he made mistakes again and again, and selfishly satisfies his thirst for happiness and love by controlling and transforming his wife.
What's even more frantic is that they go against the wishes of their wives, obliterate their voluntary will and consciousness of thinking, and turn them into their own puppets and vassals.
This practice, in essence, has gone beyond the scope of morality and constituted murder , and it was destined to not last long from the beginning.
03. Can technology replace intimacy in marriage?
In addition to the conflict between feminist and patriarchal thinking, in fact, this movie also explores the topic of people and technology to some extent.
When technology is sufficiently advanced to satisfy various fantasies, will it be able to replace intimacy in marriage?
The perfect wives in the film are a convenient cash machine, a high-end inflatable doll, and a super efficient and pleasing nanny.
They are exquisite, beautiful, obedient, have no temper, no demands, and no pressure.
They have become some kind of household appliances in their husband's life, some kind of vent.
They can be everything their husband wants, but not themselves.
Marriage itself is a combination of two completely independent individuals, a contest between you and me on an equal basis .
When a person says that he loves you, and a person chooses to marry, there is essentially a tremor in the heart .
And when the living person becomes a machine, the intimacy between the two sexes no longer exists, and the love that should have existed becomes a symbiotic dependence.
This dependence may be able to comfort the angry and empty heart of one party in a short period of time, but it must not be satisfied.
It won't be long before the heart immersed in the illusory happiness will be agitated again because of the new emptiness.
At the beginning of the film, there is a scene where Joanna, who is irritable and arbitrary, quarrels with her husband again. An angry Walter wanted to leave, but was saved by Joanna. Two people are sitting on the stairs.
Walter asked her: "Why do you love me?"
Joanna said: "Because you are handsome and excellent, and also because of your cute little moves when playing computer Go."
At the end of the film, Joanna also asked Walter: "These robots will be like me, saying: Do I love you?"
The hesitant Walter asked Mike to prove that the robot could express in 58 languages. But Joanna asked back: "Do you think they come from the heart?"
Robots can express love in 10,000 ways. They can please you with the efficiency that they can't make mistakes, but they can never impress you with methods beyond programming and definition.
And the only thing that can really touch the soul and fill the emptiness is the emotion flowing in the same fragile and sensitive chest.
I feel very cute because of the other's little action, because of the silent support when under heavy pressure, I feel grateful, and because of the apology after a quarrel, I no longer feel wronged.
Silence, quarrel, temper, and emotions are not words in a perfect dictionary, but all kinds of imperfections are real, and only this kind of truth can make two independent people move toward real satisfaction and happiness.
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This movie is adapted from a novel. There are two versions. The tragic ending in 1975, Joanna was finally transformed into a robot, which is more horror and ironic; the version recommended today in 2004 ended in a happy ending, although criticized The intensity is weakened, but the power of love is also amplified.
Coincidentally, the time when the two versions were released was the climax of active feminism, but Tuanzi believes that the film itself must not advocate a balance between feminism and patriarchy, but under this game: the ecology of love and humanity. .
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