The major successes of Don’t Worry Darling are two-fold: Pugh’s unbridled performance as Alice and the precise visual impact cinematographer Matthew Libatique’s work. The message Wilde and Silberman delivers is clear and it’s largely effective-I kept thinking about the events of the film for hours after seeing it.
It’s a cautionary tale as applicable now as it was then, and the final climatic scenes mirror a collective desire to rid the world of misogynistic oppression.
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Despite its period setting, the movie resonates with contemporary ideas.
Don’t Worry Darling, at its core, is a story about how men manipulate and control women. Alice’s instincts lead her deeper and deeper into the truth, which arrives two-thirds of the way through the film with a solid twist some viewers might see coming. When she tries to tell Jack about her fears, he gaslights her into thinking she’s crazy.īut is she crazy? Of course not. Collins (Timothy Simons) assures Alice that it’s just nerves, offering her pills to calm her down, but Alice’s paranoia that something is amiss only grows. She’s on edge in the presence of the Victory Project’s smooth-talking leader Frank (Chris Pine) and his wife Shelley (Gemma Chan), who also teaches ballet classes to the wives. Despite her charmed life, which involves imbibing cocktails with her pals, including Wilde’s Bunny and Kate Berlant’s Peg, Alice’s doubts begin to overtake her. Or, so it seems.Īfter Margaret, one of Alice’s housewife friends played by KiKi Layne, goes off the rails, Alice begins to suspect that all is not as it appears in Victory. All of the inhabitants, residing in impressive mid-century modern homes, are diligent and content. They live in Victory, California, a desert town created for the employees of the mysterious Victory Project. The couple is happily in love and obsessed with each other to the point that Jack immediately goes down on Alice upon arriving home in the evening, the carefully-arranged dinner cascading to the floor as she writhes on the table. Florence Pugh is ebullient, perfectly-coiffed 1950s housewife named Alice Chambers, who dotes on her charming husband Jack (Harry Styles).
Starring: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll, Chris Pineĭon’t Worry Darling, directed by Wilde and written by Katie Silberman, is an evocatively-shot, compellingly-acted psychological thriller that manages to be just original enough to stand apart from its obvious influences. Whatever chaotic discourse has colored Olivia Wilde’s second turn as a director is misplaced when it comes to a discussion of the movie’s success (seriously, though, did Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine?). Picturesįirst of all, Don’t Worry Darling, the film that launched a thousand dramatic moments, is good. Florence Pugh (left) and Harry Styles in ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Warner Bros.
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