Don't Worry Darling

Don't Worry Darling

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.

  • Released: 2022-09-22
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thrillers
  • Stars: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, KiKi Layne, Gemma Chan, Nick Kroll, Douglas Smith, Kate Berlant, Ari'el Stachel, Asif Ali, Timothy Simons, Sydney Chandler, Alisha Heng, Wylie Quinn Anderson, Mariah Justice, Michelle Ells, Marcello Julian Reyes, Daniel Nishio, Venice Wong, Dita Von Teese, Monroe Cline, Kurt Scholler, Anna Tenney, Ali Starr Goebel, Natasha Luna, Trevor Hooper, Samantha Sookdeosingh, Ebru, Kaleigh Krause, Kate Ellie Fitzgerald, Mario White, Anthony Soto, Nataly Santiago, Natasha Kalimada, Charissa Kroeger, Alexandra Nicole Hulme, Brooke deRosa, Hal Rosenfeld, Connor Ryan
  • Director: Olivia Wilde
 Comments
  • chliekaye - 2 July 2024
    Florence was captivating throughout
    I had seen clips of the film many times and always wanted to see it and when I finally got around to it I was not disappointed. I won't lie I only gave it the time of day because of Florence and I enjoyed her breaking the 4th wall, as for harry styles I think he should definitely stick to singing as his fake crying skills are at best horrendous and tbh it broke my focus and made me laugh because I could not take it seriously. I commend the director for doing a brilliant job of bringing out every bit of female rage I was unaware was inside me until it was shoved down my throat by the blatant shout outs to toxic masculinity throughout. Overall I would recommend if you enjoy physical thrillers and enjoyed others such as get out and midsummer.
  • redinnevada - 19 May 2024
    unexpected surprises
    I wasn't planning on watching this movie. The drama surrounding the making of it turned me off, not to mention I'd read a few reviews that weren't very encouraging. It was just mired in too much hype and murkiness.

    But I'm glad I did. I came across it on a bored Hulu afternoon and gave it 15 mins to sink or swim. It swam. Then it felt like it was gonna sink but there were enough intriguing balls lobbed at the viewer I kept going. And I'm glad again that I waded through.

    It IS murky, a bit rambley, somewhat confusing, but suddenly it's like clouds parted and it began to make SOME sense right when I was reaching for the remote.

    This isn't your typical sci-fi thriller. Very much NOT so. It's buried in Pleasantville pastel colors, covered up by Rob Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke show surreality, feeling exposed like in The Truman Show then glossed over with The Matrix blue pill/red pill enigma set ups.

    Once I realized the REAL story, I knew it was actually a keeper of a movie. It's even relevant to our political landscape of the moment as in: gender stereo-typing, mans need to reign superior where he's *allowed* to be the provider in an idyllic society where everyone lives happy as long as they just follow the ideological rules that Frank has decreed. Frank's the man...the man's man. No one is gonna ruin Frank's and his accolytes fantasy dream world. No one.

    It's got some issues getting this point across. That's a LOT to present to a viewer in just a few hours. And the artistic parts of the movie are WAY too much at times. It also doesn't really bring anything to propel the story forward...it just confuses us viewers as to what it's supposed to mean. I guess the folks who decide how many times we have to watch the water-dancers do their routine really thought it was conveying some kind of subliminal message just can't understand that WE can't understand it's meaning if they aren't gonna give us any clues. They really could've done without all the water-dancing scenes. Waste of time there.

    And we could've been let in on the REAL time period we're talking about much earlier in the movie than it was revealed. I'm sure many people gave up on it long before that was shown. Because that's the linchpin there. Once you realize that what we're seeing is just a FANTASY of 1950's lifestyles being "lived" via being in a psy-ops program in the 2020's then it really does start to get interesting. But they only give us that the last 15 mins. Not enough time to REALLY go.. "OMG...that's fascinating!"

    This movie is about virtual reality taken to an extreme level by men (and 1 woman) who want to harken back to better days for them. Not the women having better days, although they think the women ARE living their best lives in the "dream", but at least THEY are being allowed to "provide" the way men are supposed to be able to.

    See, I kinda wish I'd known that from the start. Or soon after the start anyway. It woulda made this better all the way around because I spent too much time wondering what the heck I was watching. But once that clicked in, THEN I was hooked. And understood more. Better.

    They shoulda marketed this in a different way, showed us what we were ACTUALLY watching sooner. And then it could've been a good movie on it's own merit instead of because of all the drama surrounding it in real life..now...2024.. err.. 2023.. whatever.

    Worth a watch, but watch closely.