Quick Movie Review: Don't Worry Darling

 Plot: Alice and Jack live an ideal life in a community. But one day Alice learns the grim truth about her reality.

Okay, first things first: the movie isn’t bad at all.

Secondly, Harry Styles does a pretty decent job in this movie. He is efficient in especially the confrontational scenes.

So yes, in this case, do not believe everything you read.

Watch it with an unbiased mind and you may just enjoy it.

Don't Worry Darling Plot

Alice and Jack have the perfect life in Victory. The men go to work, the women keep house.

The setting is 1950s. The women can have it all provided they never delve into what the Victory project actually is.

Everything is going fine. There are dinner parties where women dance with glasses on their heads. The men leave at the same time in the morning like clockwork. The women have to clean the house and then go learn ballet.

One of the residents starts to show strange behavior and Alice begins to suspect something is not so perfect about their community. When the woman commits suicide in front of her, Alice realizes that the people are going out of their way to cover up the incident.

The boss of the victory project, Frank, isn’t too pleased with Alice's nosiness and openly challenges her which ends with Alice being put down.

Jack is upset with her and tells her to stop sabotaging him but Alice's visions continue. After an outburst where she begs Jack to start anew elsewhere, her husband responds with sending men in red jumpsuits after her. She is taken to get shock therapy which results in her remembering everything.

She's not in the 1950s. She's a doctor who is overworked because her husband Jack has lost his job. Worse, he expects her to make dinner for him too. Alice gives him a "no way am I making dinner for you" look.

Jack is okay with getting no dinner as long as he can cuddle with his wife. Alice is not interested.

Jack comes across the Victory project and enrols him and Alice into it.

Alice is back in the community having been brainwashed. But she remembers after being triggered by a song.

She confronts Jack who tells her the truth and how he wanted to have a perfect life with her. Alice's perfect life was working a 30 hour shift and so she smashes his head with a glass.

Jack dies in this world and the real world. Alice's friend comes to help her get away, confessing she knew everything all along but wanted it because she could have her kids in this reality.

When the friend's husband tries to stop Alice, the friend easily lunges at her husband and pulls him away.

Alice gets into a car chase with the men in red jumpsuits. There are car crashes and explosions and bad driving on Alice's part.

Luckily she's a good runner.

Meanwhile, Frank's wife is pissed off at the way he has handled the whole Alice situation. She stabs him.

Alice reaches the headquarters which was forbidden to residents, and touches the glass.

She gets out. We know this because we hear her gulp air.

The movie ends with some dancing.

The movie was entertaining and will keep you on the edge of the seats. It is more of a love story than a thriller though.

What doesn’t work is that Frank was never given enough scope to be a proper villain.

Olivia Wilde's character is unnecessarily added in important scenes. Just out of nowhere, she comes in the end to help Alice. Their friendship was just talked about, yet their closeness was never shown so her insertion into the climax looked like it came out of the blue.

Apart from this, the movie is definitely worth a watch.

Scare Scale: 3.5/5 

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