![]() It’s more that she’s suddenly seeing a lot of fraying on the edges of it all. It isn’t so much that the figure at the center of their community - a dapper man named Jack, played by Chris Pine as the epitome of the suavity of evil - is giving off major cult-leader vibes. Still, something begins to feel off to Alice in this modernist wonderland. (The fact that two of the sitcom star’s grandchildren, Carey and Shane Van Dyke, are credited as co-writers only ups the irony factor.) ![]() Imagine an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show if Rob Petrie came home, tripped over the sofa and then immediately went down on Laura. ![]() At the end of the day, she’ll greet her husband, Jack ( Harry Styles) at the door and if she’s lucky, somewhere between the last sip of his martini and the first bite of her pot roast, he’ll ravage her on the dinner table. Besides, why should the womenfolk worry about what their husbands do or don’t do during the day when there’s housework to be done, modern dance classes to attend, pools to lounge by, so many pretty dresses to buy? For Alice Chambers ( Florence Pugh), this is the glamorous life in all of its stand-by-your-man glory. No one knows what this mysterious project is that occupies the gents’ waking hours when asked, they reply they’re in “the development of progressive materials business” and leave it at that. In the morning, the husbands kiss their wives goodbye and drive their vintage gas guzzlers out of this ticky-tacky utopia and through the desert toward “headquarters,” where everyone works on “the Victory Project.” At night, the citizens of the quaint community of Victory throw raucous, drunken shindigs that are always one lampshade-hat away from going full suburban bacchanalia. You can’t say that it doesn’t give you an Eisenhower-era Eden that’s positively mouth-watering - so picture-perfect, in fact, that you might be able to forget how repressive everything might be beneath the shiny, impeccably polished surface. Nick Kroll Takes Credit for 'Don't Worry Darling' Drama on 'Fallon': 'I'm the Puppeteer'Īnd it is undeniably gorgeous, presenting a ring-a-ding 1950s dream world that’s hard not be beguiled by thanks to Matthew Libatique’s cinematography, Katie Byron’s production design and Arianne Phillips’ costume design. Rarely has high-concept genre commentary been so gorgeous yet so barely coherent. It’s nowhere near The Feminine Mystique on acid, though judges might accept “ Lean In after a few too many Lime-a-Ritas” as a less aspirational, more accurate description. (Which you’ll have the chance to see when the film hits theaters on September 23rd.) Despite how sumptuous and stylish - and Styles-ish - as all of it is, Don’t Worry Darling plays like a bad Op-Ed piece that wants you to believe its good intentions are more significant and righteous than they actually are. But we’re not here to praise it either, and no one could be blamed for focusing more on the behind-the-scenes drama and a gloriously off-the-rails PR campaign than what’s actually up on the screen. ![]() We do not come to bury this Caesar salad of retro-glam decor, half-baked notions of patriarchal happiness-is-slavery wish fulfillment and Tales From the Crypt storytelling given the cocktail-happy-hour-filter treatment on gossip alone. Wilde has said she set out to make “ The Feminist Mystique on acid.” Her sophomore effort’s legacy may end up being a 21st century Cleopatra, replaying the infamous Liz ‘n’ Dick lollapalooza that accompanied the 1963 epic run amuck. This movie stands head and subzero-temp-cold shoulders above its peers in terms of salacious scuttlebutt, however. Every film production is dysfunctional in its own way. High-profile hook-ups, the humiliating serving of papers during public appearances, leaked videos, cross-media sniping, several pints’ worth of alleged bad blood, the ghosting of press conferences, Spitgate, etc. Noco genius 2 red light blinking.By now, the question isn’t whether you’ve heard of Don’t Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde’s social-thriller-cum-thirst-valentine - it’s what you’ve heard about it.
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