Last week L. and I watched this movie called Don't Worry Darling. I had seen a trailer for this movie and could not tell what the hell it was about but it seemed interesting and I like the directors previous movie Booksmart. So we started watching this movie and it takes place in the 1950s where all the husbands go off to work at this place called Victory while the women stay at home cook, clean, relax, and bring their husbands a nice warm dinner when they get home. One of the housewives seems out of it and kind of strange and the other women stay away from her. Her name is Margaret and she's played by an actress I've seen in other films and did not realize it was her because she looks different in everything that she does.
The main characters are Alice and Jack Chambers. One day while traveling after feeling kind of weird after seeing what happened with Margaret and her being taken away she gets off of a trolley after seeing a airplane crash. She starts walking towards it she finds the strange building touches it and ends up waking up back in bed with her husband trying to make dinner. Alice gets a phone call from Margaret and kind of brushes her off until the next day. She sees Margaret up on the rooftop and she slits her own throat and then falls to the ground. Everybody's telling Alice no you didn't see anything you just made that all up she's fine the doctors came and took her away and she's going to be okay. It turns out that a while back, not sure how long ago, but Margaret walked out into the desert because where they live there's nothing around them. She walked out into the desert with her son and I'm assuming that he's dead or gone or something. Meanwhile Alice is starting to have all these crazy hallucinations where the walls are literally crushing her she's wrapping her face with plastic wrap and her husband doesn't want to hear anything about it and none of the husbands can talk about their jobs.
One night while they're having a dinner the guy who runs the whole operation, his name's Frank, is confronted by Alice where she asked him all the questions she wants to and he's just playing her. There's something really off about this dude because earlier in the film he caught Allison and Jack having had sex and he didn't do anything about it. So at the dinner where everybody's offended by Alice's behavior she ends up being taken away by these men in red jackets and they give her electroshock therapy. She ends up coming back home and keeps having little flashes of another life and it turns out that Jack put her into a virtual reality simulator and they have both been living inside this fake world and the real world Alice is a surgeon who works all the time and Jack is unemployed and just wants to spend time with her so he starts a small job to get enough money to sign them up for this program where she just is tied down in bed with IVs and her eyes cranked open and has no actual real life. When the other men are leaving for “work” they're actually going into the real world to make enough money to supply this fake reality world.
After Alice realizes what Jack has done he ends up hugging her and then starting to slowly squeeze her until he's hurting her. She cracks something over his head and ends up killing him and a whole team of people start chasing her around town. It turns out that one of the other wives knows about this program because it seems like only men signed up for it but this other wife lost her children in the real world and in this fantasy world she gets to stay there and be a mother to them. So in the end Alice ends up getting away but we don't see what happens, we just hear her wake up in the real world and I imagine it is going to be super jacked up. Alice is going to wake up tied to a bed with her eyes propped open and her dead husband laying next to her. This was a really interesting movie. It felt like an episode of Twilight Zone or something and stayed far enough from the Black Mirror type reality that a lot of movies and TV shows started doing after that show got popular. I would suggest checking this out it's on HBO Max.
Florence Pugh as Alice Chambers
Harry Styles as Jack Chambers
Olivia Wilde as Bunny
Gemma Chan as Shelley
KiKi Layne as Margaret Watkins
Sydney Chandler as Violet Johnson
Nick Kroll as Dean
Chris Pine as Frank
Asif Ali as Peter
Kate Berlant as Peg
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