Don't Worry Darling
Added 2022-10-26 21:34:51 +0000 UTCSpoiler alert for those who haven't seen it. But I have a quick question for those of you who have....at what point in the film did you figure out the first big reveal/twist? Was it around the halfway point, before, or after? if at all?
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That’s always a possibility now, but I thought it stood out in what seemed to be positioned as an “issues” movie. Would have been pretty funny to have a movie in which the men are free of racism but still are virulently sexist, haha.
Jim Barnes
2022-10-30 22:50:20 +0000 UTCLol....so the Pine line makes all the sense. But the interracial couple thing for me is not a giveaway anymore. Hollywood is often rewriting history nowadays...putting multi-racial people in historical films for no reason other than to be "diverse." So for me...I initially saw this as another example of that.
Deepfocuslens
2022-10-30 22:28:34 +0000 UTCI didn’t see the metaverse aspect coming. I thought it was simple brainwashing. I walked in knowing that this was set in the modern world and not the 1950s, though. Two big tells in the trailer: interracial couples and Chris Pine’s line “We’re not going backward, we’re pushing forward.”
Jim Barnes
2022-10-28 08:47:08 +0000 UTCXD nice
Deepfocuslens
2022-10-27 01:42:00 +0000 UTCI think the ending could've been amazing, but it was too lost morally to be able to recognize that.
Deepfocuslens
2022-10-27 01:40:54 +0000 UTCHaven't seen it but based on the comments I'm seeing here, it's a shame because Olivia Wilde showed so much promise as a director with Booksmart which was one of the funniest comedies of the past decade with a brilliant and unusual comic premise.
Wolfman Brandon
2022-10-26 22:27:55 +0000 UTCI had a lot of ideas of what it was throughout, most of which ended up being featured in the twist. But for me, the issue wasn’t that it was predictable. I can deal with that. The real issue was that I was really unsure of the impact Wilde wanted it to have. Movies like Get Out, The Stepford Wives, Possessor, etc. all use similar ideas to contextual use broader societal commentary. I had no idea what Don’t Worry Darling wanted to say by the end except for some vague third wave feminist half ideas.
Jackson Littlewood
2022-10-26 22:20:56 +0000 UTCWell it’s funny. I thought from the opening scene that all the characters spoke a little too modern but I just assumed that was bad writing… I knew it was a simulation as soon as she started having fever dreams and at that point the modern day aspect was all but confirmed for me
Matt Silcock
2022-10-26 22:13:40 +0000 UTCSerenity has fun with its dumb twist at least. This was just dull as hell
Jackson Littlewood
2022-10-26 22:08:41 +0000 UTCI more or less knew there was something off with the film’s world from the start, when it was still being introduced. Chris Pine’s introductory monologue pretty much sealed the deal—there is something sinister going on underneath the surface of this town, and the women are being kept in the dark about it. It’s only a question of how it’s being done, which doesn’t turn out to be all that novel. It’s the chief flaw of the film for me. You figure out that the world is fake and a kind of prison in the first act, and you spend the rest of the film waiting for it to reveal itself, which is boring. You really only have Florence Pugh and Chris Pine’s performances to carry you along. Their dinner table standoff is the best scene in the movie. It only really started to get interesting once it’s revealed how and why everyone’s there, but then the film becomes a conventional chase thriller in the last 10 minutes and then ends. I wanted to know more about Olivia Wilde’s character once her complicity was revealed (and Gemma Chan’s character), but that was her last scene in the movie. The film would have been a lot better if the twist was revealed halfway through rather than towards the end. Then it would have had time to wade into interesting, ambiguous territory that it purports to be about rather than be coy the entire movie. It settles on a bullshit third-rate feminist “Wake up, sheeple!” stance on a subject (the shifting dynamics of male-female relations; women’s fear of subjugation) that could’ve been more richly explored. As it is, Olivia Wilde did succceed as a filmmaker in one respect: her film can be seen to have aspects of her personality all over it. Above all, like her, it’s not as smart as it thinks it is.
Bennett Oliver
2022-10-26 22:00:02 +0000 UTCIt was actually before the movie came out, kinda. Me and my girlfriend were talking about the trailer and I said, "So this is just gonna be The Stepford Wives and The Villiage, right?" As soon as the big twist happened, we both leaned over to each other and said, "On, The Village and Serenity."
Shaeffer Holt
2022-10-26 21:53:32 +0000 UTCWhen did you realize that this was all a 50s simulation based on financial and emotional martial friction set in the modern day? (that I guess was more what I wanted to know, without being too specific in the initial question)
Deepfocuslens
2022-10-26 21:46:39 +0000 UTCAbout 20 minutes in when Florence Pugh is looking at the model of the town and you see it’s just a small circle in the middle of the desert… I knew some Truman Show shit was going on
Matt Silcock
2022-10-26 21:41:51 +0000 UTC
