"The shooting of a film, especially of a sound film, affords a spectacle unimaginable anywhere at any time before this. It presents a process in which it is impossible to assign to a spectator a viewpoint which would exclude from the actual scene such extraneous accessories as camera equipment, lighting machinery, staff assistants, etc. - unless his eye were on a line parallel with the lens. This circumstance, more than any other, renders superficial and insignificant any possible similarity between a scene in the studio and one on the stage." *             Multiplicity (1996) + is a film about a man who clones himself in order to have more time to spend with his wife (his marriage is failing and he believes that this is because he works too much). The film's main charachter, Doug Kinney, lets his copy, "2", stand in for him at work each day, but he becomes increasingly tired of the housework which has become his responsability in his free time. Quite literally, he is not getting enough time to play golf. So he copies himself again, and "3" is left in charge of the chores at home. Numbers "2" and "3" are living above the garage, and become increasingly tired of their responsibilities (outside of the main focus for which they were cloned) and so they make their own copy. The film makes an attempt at a comedic twist on the copy of a copy generational loss syndrom and a mentally inferior child is producted. Meet number "4".             The film fails to achieve any noteworthy discussion on reproducability, unless we are to believe that it is positing that gender characteristics are defined by action. The film takes an unexpected turn by emphasizing the masculinity of working man "2" and contrasting that burping, lounging in boxers, football watching character with the femilinity of anally precice, house husband "3". The two are clearly paired as a heterosexual couple, and spend the greater part of their time caring for their bastard child "4". The end of the film reveals that this bizarre trio has settled into a family restaurant in Florida. The fascinating topic of reproduction falls to the wayside to make room for locker room humor and visual gags. The visuals do offer a stunning example of what is possible with the current rotoscoping technologies.