It’s 1955, you're dancing to Oogum Boogum Song by Brenton Wood on your record player while twirling around in your daisy yellow teacup dress dusting everything in sight. You're dancing your heart out, and all of a sudden you hear nothing. You think the record player must have stalled and as you walk over to check, it starts up again but goes faster and faster until it’s looping and all you hear is noise. It scares you and as you go to turn it off, a broken tune you recognize comes out. You don’t know where it came from or what memory it’s from but all you feel is terrified. That is how Don’t Worry Darling makes you feel, scared of the future, confused out of your mind and almost completely unable to connect the dots until the end is near.
With all the drama surrounding this movie, going into it I was not sure what to expect in the slightest, other than Harry Styles getting sexual with Florence Pugh, of course. This movie was written by Oliva Wilde and starred Florence Pugh as Alice, Harry Styles as Jack, Gemma Chan as Shelly, and Christ Pine as Frank. Pugh and Styles played the main characters that went through a perfect 1950’s life with a looming mystery over their heads.
The plot of this movie was all over the place. It starts similar to Wanda Vision, in a perfect town with a perfect family. As the movie progresses you start to see the cracks that not only divide this utopia, but the couples as well. In the entire movie, there was not one twist I saw coming.
The soundtrack for the movie was very memorable because they pulled very catchy songs that were easy to sing along to. I loved how they pulled from the past with songs from the 1950’s like Where and When by Benny Goodman Trio and You’re My World by Cilla Black. I was surprised that Harry Styles didn’t have his own song in the movie, but Pugh sang beautifully in the trailer. Styles' performance was exceptional, especially if you consider his other roles like Eros in “Eternals.”
If you are looking for just one theme that defines the entire movie, I would have to say men suck. This whole movie is a big middle finger to men who think that they can control women and how they live their lives. So, if you’re looking for a feminist, psychological thriller that makes almost no sense half the time, then this is the movie for you.
Overall, I would recommend seeing this movie. Whether you go to see it to see if it is really garbage like critics say or to feel a surge of excitement when the middle finger is given to men, I would go see it. I would give the movie at least a 3.5 out of 5 stars, just because of the twisted ending.
