Are you ready to live the life you deserve?
Don’t Worry Darling follows Alice (Florence Pugh, Little Women) and Jack (Harry Styles), a couple living in the idylic town of Victory, California. Jack works at the town’s nearby ‘Victory project’ and Alice stays at home, making lavish meals, throwing dinner parties and socialising with the other women of Victory. The pair live the perfect life and with Jack’s upcoming promotion it’s about to get even better. Perfection is interrupted however when fellow Victory resident Margaret (KiKi Layne) disturbs the peace at a local party and begins shouting that ‘they are lying to us’. Everybody brushes Margaret’s concerns away but Alice then sees her cut her own throat and get escorted away by a group of men in red.
Inquiring about Margaret’s health, Alice is repeatadly shut down or ignored by those around her. Realising that she knows almost nothing about the town or what her husband even does Alice begins investigating Victory, leading to some devestating consequences. What is Victory really and what is the Victory project? Can Alice get to the truth before it’s too late or will she be shunned away and end up just like Margaret did?
There has been so much drama surrounding the production of this film and it’s become an almost second layer of entertainment to the film itself. With supposed cast fallouts, a spitting incedent and even apparent scene cuttings, the behind the scenes of Don’t Worry Darling has just been just as exciting and messy as the actual storyline of Don’t Worry Darling. Every week it seemed like there was news regarding the film and the whole thing just had me gripped and if anything made me want to even more, it’s certianly an interesting promotion technique I’ll give them that.
Don’t Worry Darling had such a brilliantly done aesthetic and I loved the 50s attire, music and general symmetry of the neighbourhood. Everything was just so perfectly done and really represented the nature of Victory and the ‘American Dreamness’ of the entire town. The way everything was shot and shown in perfect symmetry, with the perfect clothes and perfect hair really hammered home the main themes if the film and I just loved the entire vibe.
The actual storyline of Don’t Worry Darling was definitely exciting and I really loved trying to figure out the truth behind the Victory Project alongside Alice. The film itilised a lot of classic thriller tropes and I just loved the general unease of the situation. The end reveal wasn’t exactly the twist to end all twists (and I’ve seen a few people heavily compare the film to The Stepford Wives) but I think the film’s other aspects definitely made up for this.
Performance wise, Don’t Worry Darling really was a marvel. Florence Pugh was absolutely amazing as Alice and I loved following her character journey. Pugh was likeable and such a compelling lead, she really acted her socks off. Gemma Chan (Crazy Rich Asians) and Chris Pine were also brilliant as Shelley and Frank respectively and they were brilliant oppisite Pugh as the ‘perfect couple’ and stern leaders of the Victory Project, they were both chilling. Harry Styles I have to say was definitely the film’s weak link and some of his acting wasn’t amazing but oppisite such great stars he’s probably always going to look inferior, he wasn’t terrible by any means but some of his more emotional parts really didn’t feel as real to me and some of the other cast.
Overall I really enjoyed Don’t Worry Darling. The film was just brilliantly done and I loved the 50s aesthetic and overall vibes of the whole story. Alice’s life in Victory and eventual investigation into the town made for an exciting thriller and Florence Pugh absolutely knocked it out of the park. Despite this film’s seemingly endless drama the final product was amazing and I really enjoyed the viewing experience.
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