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Among the romances on set, rumored feuds, Chris Pine memes, and the most analyzed spitting scandal since Kramer & Newman vs. Keith Hernandez, don’t worry darling Surely everyone was worried. Did the noise take over the movie itself?Warner He knew the Brothers had a wet squib in his hand, so was the noise a calculated publicity?A staggering mistake he made for Flo Is existence the only salvation?

An emphatic “YES” for the first and last concerns. Compared to the one in the middle—probably.there is no doubt that don’t worry darling It’s not as intriguing as a pre-release drama. As Harry Styles eloquently described, the film “feels like a movie. It feels like a real movie.” Her second feature for Olivia Wilde represents a fantasy of mid-20th century suburban bliss. When a housewife named Alice (Florence Pugh) dares to ask a question, she falls down a rabbit hole, where she finds out the truth about her.

Stills from Don’t Worry Darling

Palm-lined streets, cookie-shaped condos, floral cocktail dresses, and all pastel colors make the company town of Victory, California, an overtime postcard-perfect community. Every morning, the hard-working wife packs lunch and kisses her goodbye before her husband leaves for top-secret business in a shiny convertible. While the men work, the women vacuum, cook, shop, enjoy martinis, and gossip by the pool. What exactly men do at work is not a question women are allowed to ask. Do not set foot. Margaret (Kiki Rin) is the only black woman in the film, and when she violates company rules and suffers the consequences, Alice begins to realize that something is wrong with the town. Pulled out of her domestic bliss, she begins to ask herself questions, causing further cracks in her façade: Is she dreaming, remembering, hallucinating? I don’t understand if there is Everyone refuses to buy the Matrix glitches she discovers, men discrediting her awakening as her delusion. But nothing will stop her from getting to the bottom of the ongoing conspiracy.

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Leave it to Pugh to adapt to every challenge thrown at it and keep the film safe until it burns itself out in a car accident. It spreads all over her face. Her Styles spoils it as her husband Jack in a performance made even more incompetent by her scene partner’s consummate skill. The only co-star who somehow approaches Pugh and seems to understand his mission is Pyne, who poses the silent menace of the cult leader as Jack’s boss Frank. It’s when Pugh and Pine play each other that the movie picks up steam.

For the most part, Wilde seems content to follow the contours of the Stepford Wives. Welcome to the suburbs of the American Dream. My husband is a devious corporate type. My wife seems happy to do the bidding. Until she suspects something isn’t right and tries to uncover the truth. The myth of housewife content is debunked in her domestic ambitions. And suburban utopias are exposed as fakes. Ira Levin’s novel (on which the 1975 film was based) suggests that men would replace their wives with robotic slaves if they wanted to maintain absolute control and support the illusion of domestic life. Instead of turning his wife into an obedient robot, don’t worry darling It follows the more insidious path of body conquest that Levin explored in Rosemary’s Baby. However, the plot here is designed to be sci-fi rather than diabolical.

Stills from Don’t Worry Darling

When the film peels back layers to reveal the rot beneath the suburban surface, it borrows ideas from The Truman Show, The Matrix, and Black Mirror’s USS Callister, among others. don’t worry darling They feel their masculinity is threatened by the autonomy that has been bestowed on women for years. In order to feel in control again, they decided to return to a more sexist era. cannot be modernized or deconstructed. Lacking a satirical drive of its own, the story begins to drag. The longer it drags, the more the fault line opens.

The irony is don’t worry darling Itself becomes Stepford’s wife. Good looking, no personality, mechanized clones programmed to do only what they’re supposed to do. For a film meant to chart some tricky thematic territory, it’s satisfying to carve out the easiest path through it. , exhausting the film’s allegory and weakening its potency. The end result is a movie that is neither well thought out nor well thought out. Beautiful costumes, dollhouse set designs, and excellent lead. None of her performances can overshadow a film as shallow as Suburbia.

Don’t Worry Darling is now showing in cinemas across India.

Prahlad Srihari is a film and music writer based in Bangalore..

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