{"id":38820,"date":"2023-02-07T18:36:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=38820"},"modified":"2023-02-07T18:36:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:36:14","slug":"satisfaction-guaranteed-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/satisfaction-guaranteed-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Satisfaction Guaranteed (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/satisfaction-guaranteed-sti.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/satisfaction-guaranteed-sti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/satisfaction-guaranteed-sti.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/satisfaction-guaranteed-sti-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/satisfaction-guaranteed-sti-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a>Director Yue Ma\u2019s short horror comedy watches a lot like a gory version of \u201cThe Stepford Wives.\u201d Much like its predecessor, it\u2019s a movie that centers on domestication and chauvinism, as well as the idealized image of women. All of it is packed with a dark sense of humor, and some great turning of the tables. Much of \u201cSatisfaction Guaranteed\u201d garners an admirably dark sense of humor with a satirical and warped tone from beginning to end.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Set in the 1950\u2019s, Joanna is a stay at home wife whose husband Walter is tough to please, and constantly demanding. Looking for a new way to please him, she visits a new company that promises to improve on the normal woman: Satisfaction guaranteed. After a bizarre surgery, she returns home with some adjustments that just might make Walter happy. If it doesn\u2019t kill him first.<\/p>\n<p>Joanna is a very miserable character when we first meet, as she dotes on her husband endlessly. She even takes a lot of his insults and mental abuse in stride and with a smile. There\u2019s not a ton of explanation as to what the company is that performs Joanna\u2019s adjustments, but it\u2019s a great injection of suspense in an otherwise tongue in cheek short film. It feels almost like a Stephen King short story, where this mysterious element interrupts a character\u2019s home life at just the right moment, and gives them an offer that they can\u2019t refuse.<\/p>\n<p>The promise of \u201ca better life\u201d is undercut by Joanna\u2019s growing resentment toward Walter. Once the screws begin to turn with Joanna\u2019s self, \u201cSatisfaction Guaranteed\u201d really comes full circle with a delightfully blood soaked finale. Alexandra Marian Hensley is stellar in the lead role of Joanna, while Yue Ma and writer Ken Morris deliver a bang up genre hybrid; it\u2019s a great bit of turning the tables that I couldn\u2019t get over, hours after it ended.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m3Ag1OPgB3U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Yue Ma\u2019s short horror comedy watches a lot like a gory version of \u201cThe Stepford Wives.\u201d Much like its predecessor, it\u2019s a movie that centers on domestication and chauvinism, as well as the idealized image of women. 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