Don't Worry Darling is a 2022 American dystopian psychological thriller film directed by Olivia Wilde and starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine and Gemma Chan. During an unspecified period in America, Alice and Jack Chambers, played by Pugh and Styles, live in a gentrified 1950s neighborhood in Victory, California. The all-male Project Victory, played by Gemma Chan, features Pine's Frank and his partner, Dr. It's the brainchild of Shelley Collins.
This city is an oasis of opulence and relaxation unknown to the wider world, comparable to secret cities created for families of scientists to work on secret, quasi-government projects. The women are all housewives and are forbidden to cross the city limits and go into the desert near the Victory headquarters.
Life is perfect, every resident's needs are met by the company. All they want in return is prudence and an unquestioning commitment to their suburban utopia. But something is not quite right. And until one day she decides to look into it, this nagging doubt gnaws at Alice more and more.
What drives Alice to investigate Project Victory?
Alice's neighbor, Margaret, seems to be going crazy after going out into the wilderness outside of their town. He loses his son and in the process sets in motion the dominoes that will be Victory's downfall. A short time later, Alice sees Margaret fall from the roof, slitting her own throat. Before a horrified Alice can react, red coveralled security guards rush to retrieve the body, while other coveralls grab Alice and rush her away from the scene.
Later, when he asks about Margaret, he is nonchalantly told that Margaret had a minor accident, received a few stitches, and is fine and recovering. Alice just can't stomach this explanation, but no one wants to hear it, so she decides to investigate the matter on her own.
Alice is an overworked doctor referred to as Dr. Warren rather than Chambers. Jack is unemployed and sits at home all day listening to podcasts. Their relationship is at a low ebb, with Alice exhausted and never there for Jack.
Enter Frank's podcast about Victory, a virtual world where everything is perfect, at least for men. The Victory Program would lead to the 1950s, when men ruled the world and women "knew" their place. Jack decides to enroll in the virtual world of Victory. Without her consent, he drugs Alice and puts her in a medically induced coma. Jack attaches Alice to a virtual reality device with open wires and an IV in her arm to feed her and keep her alive.
In the simulation, Jack has fuller hair, clearer skin, better posture, and a British accent. And in this world, Alice and Jack live a stereotypically perfect life, where Alice no longer has to work and Jack finally has a successful career.
Why didn't Alice make it to the real world the first time?
After watching a plane crash in the desert, Alice heads outside the city limits (into a restricted area) to investigate, but instead finds herself at Victory headquarters.
As he touches the Victory exit portal, his body prepares to take him back to the real world. But since it was the day the men were all in the real world, it seems like Jack should have been there when he first came out. Later, it is said that it is Jack who immediately brings Alice back to Victory before she wakes up from her coma.
How does Alice remember her real life?
After a disastrous dinner encounter with Frank, Alice pleads with Jack to let them leave the Victory, and he seems to agree, but as soon as they get into the car, security comes in and drags her away for treatment. Alice undergoes electroshock therapy and is soon sent home. On the surface it looks normal with some minor memory issues.
Everything seems to be back to normal. We are once again in a happy family scenario where Alice is preparing a roast while Jack searches for sheet music and slowly hums a tune. Alice hears the tune and recognizes the song from the beginning of the movie, and something clicks in her subconscious.
Her real memories of Jack singing the song in the real world fire up her brain, the neurons reconnect and she finally realizes exactly what happened and the twist is revealed. None of these people live in a town called Victory in the California desert. It is a virtual reality world similar to the virtual world of The Matrix.
At first it seems that only Margaret is aware of the sad reality. It is immediately silenced and labeled as unstable. This moment, of course, is part of the traditional narrative of labeling a woman as crazy or hysterical when she is vocal or asks uncomfortable questions.
One of Alice's friends, Bunny, portrayed by Wilde, first tries to convince Alice that her fears and doubts are false and that she should just go with the flow and enjoy life or she will end up like Margaret. And it would seem that she is forced to think this, because Bunny also knows the reality and knows what will happen if Alice continues to investigate.
Interestingly, Bunny is the only woman (besides Frank's wife) who knows the truth and willingly enters the program because it's the only way she can be with her children who are actually dead in the real world. In fact, all the children in this fantasy world are fake, so Margaret was taken from her as punishment for going to Victory.
Why do the women begin to change at the end of the film?
Towards the end, Alice's rebellion leads to a series of near-cataclysmic events. Bugs in the program collide and the other women begin to lose their way. And her attempt to escape inspires a change in some of the other women around her who realize something is very wrong.
Shockingly, Shelley stabs Frank and tells him it's her "turn," perhaps because she worked with him on Project Victory, symbolizing a feminine takeover of leadership. He probably feels he doesn't want to be a passive bystander during this prolonged, manipulative form of control. He knows that Alice's exit will open up the entire program, not to mention the legal ramifications if Alice survives and goes to the nearest police station.
Does Alice survive?
When Alice discovers the terrible truth and accidentally kills Jack, Bunny rushes to her rescue and tells her to take the car and drive to Victory Headquarters, as it's the only way to get out of the program before Frank's men kill her comatose body. the real world. So eventually Alice manages to survive the car chase, arrives at Victory Headquarters, and exits the app as the screen fades to black and she gasps like a drowning man emerging from the depths.
What isn't said is that she probably wakes up, malnourished and emaciated, perhaps bedridden next to the dead body of her once beloved husband. Does he survive this ordeal? We hope he does.
What was Frank's purpose behind the victory?
Frank's underlying philosophy for Project Victory is based on progress versus chaos, which he explains to the townspeople during a celebration. It is a symbol of oppressive male power and control. He believes that any change to gender roles will neutralize progress in creating the ultimate community. Everything will always remain old, traditional and oppressive.
But in fact, chaos is the natural state of existence. Unnatural is the perfection that Project Victory seeks to achieve. It is most unnatural to take people (with or without their knowledge) out of their natural state of chaos and disorder and into a comatose matrix so that they can experience beauty and order in the realm of fantasy in its divine perfection. works.
And whose fantasy is Victory? Is the perfect world based on the attitudes and perspectives of those who create it? The win is supposedly the only technological development that a small consortium was able to achieve and pass beta testing, and it's obviously a well-kept secret.
But what about ethics - women are lured into this fantasy world without their consent or knowledge. Through psycho-physio-biological manipulations, women are formed to behave according to the patriarchal norms of the 40s and 50s, making them forget about equality and authority. So the question is, whose values and attitudes are included in this beautiful fantasy world?
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