Is 'Don't Worry Darling' a disaster, or a triumph? The real answer is neither, writes rilaws.
Let us, if we can, put aside all the various mini-controversies that surrounded the lead up to the Venice premiere of. Now that the film has debuted, maybe we can just focus on the movie itself, which is neither triumph nor disaster. Directorhas made an obvious and intermittently entertaining sci-thriller, one that borrows heavily from many better things but uses those pilfered parts effectively enough. For a while, anyway.
The film takes place in what looks like 1960s Palm Springs, mid-century development ringed by threatening desert mountains. This is a planned community built by a shadowy corporation, one that has a vaguely messianic mission to advance humanity . . . somehow. The men, all handsome, go off to work each morning while the women, all pretty, look after the kids or soak themselves in afternoon cocktails with neighbor wives. It’s an arch blending ofchic and Manhattan Project secrecy.
and has since delivered one striking performance after another. If her cool scratch and mettle, in the form of housewife Alice, seem a bit out of place in this breezy world, that’s probably the point. She is meant to realize, as are we, that she doesn’t belong in this ordered place.
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