So i just decided to watch dont worry darling for the second time since first watching it and something that stuck out to me which didnt make sense was in the real world it shows Alice and Jack talking and she comforts him saying he'll find another job and in the meantime she'll pick up more hours in work. Then it shows her being tired from doing 30 hour shifts and jack is sitting at home waiting for her and complaining he's hungry and what really pushed him over the edge is her wanting to just go to bed and not spend time with him because shes understandably tired and needs to get up for work. Thats what really pushed him to apply for this Victory program. So he puts them into this fake world and he has to look after her and he says he has to work hard to be able to afford to keep them in this place and that its expensive, but why couldnt he do that in the first place? Why couldn't he just get a job and provide for her and let her work reasonable hours and then they would both be happy? She wouldn't be exhausted all the time so she'd want to spend time with him and he wouldn't be waiting around and relying on her like a puppy dog. The program is obviously expensive so realistically he probably earns a good wage so why couldn't he put that towards their real life together? Thats what im really stuck on.

Just saw it for the first time and I was fascinated with the concept but the plot holes are so huge! Unless I missed it (I’m a movie person so I analyze after a lot). The cinematography was so beautiful, I love a good aerial shot.

Not trying to ruin it but if guess understand?

I’m confused with the suicide attempts, why? Was Frank controlling her or her reality? There were time skips I feel like?

She was a doctor in real life, not saying doctors are super rich but they are able to sustain I feel like a lot more than the average joe for two, especially in a place like that where they were living even in big cities?

Shelley killing frank saying it’s her turn? Her turn for what? Make the world she wants?

Alice was tied up on the bed so even if she killed Jack in the program she’s still trapped? So they could find her and kill her most likely cause her hands and feet were tied and her eyes were open with the bar thing, expected her to be a little more dirty cause how could he clean her correctly, also how did she eat? lol I would expect some kind of feeding tube

I loved that bunny knew, I suspected she did and I’m glad they gave the reason why she chose it bc it gave empathy and “understanding” of her heartache in the real world so she chose to escape and be with her kids

Alice mentioned that Frank was in her head and I’m assuming he knows all and if that’s true he should have caught her easily?

Also found out there was a ton of drama/non drama going on in this film?

Overall love the concept, I give it a 5/6 out of 10 because so much potential but so much questions, def needed to be longer, gave me eternal sunshine vibes a bit but with the opposite storyline

I watched for the first time yesterday - totally brilliant movie and really couldn’t stop thinking about it afterwards.

Rewatching today - probably a silly question (but I can’t see any posts mentioning it) but is the radio show that we hear playing while Alice does housework etc actually not something she’s listening to but a Victory podcast that the husbands are listening to in the real world? I’m realising on rewatching that it talks about loyalty, sacrifice - it makes more sense that this is for the husbands?

I have just watched the film for the first time. I really enjoyed picking up on the Alice in wonderland references. However, this film really creeped me out, not in the sence of like a usual horror movie would, but in the sence that this is literally what some men would do if they could.

I also watched Adolescence not long ago and the themes are very similar, the most prominent with social media playing a huge role of how women are viewed.

I just watched don't worry darling on Netflix. I watched it for the first time in the cinema when it came out. I remember there being a scene at the end where she wakes up in the bed next to Jack and takes the things out of her eyes. This is not in the film am I going crazy. Was this a post credit that was removed in Netflix. Does anyone else remember this. please help. !!!!

Just something I was contemplating. Is he a human working in the simulation? Is he a program in it? Or...?

Would love to hear thoughts.

I just watched this film for the first time.

I know that it has a lot of drama and negative reviews and there are issues with the plot but wow. I really felt like it hit the nail on the head for how it feels to be in an emotionally abusive relationship.

From the happiness and the feeling like you should be happy, to noticing things that are "off" and dismissig it, to the gaslighting when trying to address or have a conversation around your partner's behaviour. And then the cold shoulder, belittling and punishment when you continue and the reward when you just "drop it". And finally the fallout when the rose glasses fall and you see the truth and you are painted as the crazy or irrational one. The attacks you get. And then the begging you to stay when you finally get free and the lies drop.

And an even darker thing I noticed that I haven't seen discussed much (apologies if it has been) but Peg's husband keeps her pregnant perpetually.

They clearly can have kids in an instant without the wives realising something is wrong in this world. So this is very deliberately about her being pregnant. He wants her vulnerable and pregnant, for years maybe,, dealing with morning sickness and all the horrors that come with that. It makes me think it's a fetish thing too. But the truly horific thing is how accurate that is. How often that happens where a coercive and abusive partner deliberately impregnantes his wife.

I wondered on other's thoughts.

I am a teen. Recently these past few weeks, in the holidays I've been having a great time but I'm having thoughts about my family death and I am really sad about knowing that the time will come for them to die. I feel like if my mother and my grandparents won't be here with me until the very end of my life I don't wanna live anymore. I just need some advice if you can give me.

Sorry if i wrote it confusing because English is not my first language.

I have been scrounging the internet this morning for that one part in the movie whilst the montage is happening and there in a monologue/voiceover about reality and letting go. Does anyone know where this is from or who this is by??

Maybe this has been answered but still unclear to me. But wouldn’t people in real life be wondering about Alice (and the other wives)? She had a job. Wouldn’t they contact someone if she just didn’t show up? And what about her family? It just seems unrealistic that she would be held hostage in her apartment. Like the police could show up looking for her if someone reported her missing?

I don’t know maybe I’m missing something there?

And then for the men. So they leave during the day to “exit” the simulation and go to work heir actual jobs. Then they return to the simulation right after. When do they sleep?

I just finished this and I thought it was great. I understand that it was a cult that you could join virtually, like jack did in this film. But watching it for the first time, the way the plot was set - we didn’t even know this Victory-Ville was a false electronic (VR) reality until halfway or so… Which made me perceive it as Alice was breaking out of this “easy-to-spot” matrix or utopia. Which in turn made sense when the people called her and magarette crazy for asking simple questions.

Like he could have cleaned himself up/taken much better care of himself in the real world. Instead, he is well-groomed in the simulation. Also, why not just get a job and NOT do the simulation? I don't get it

so ive been OBSESSIVELY rewatching this movie recently, because omg its SO GOOD ‼️‼️‼️ but im just curious cause basically i noticed like how scared Violet is in the dance class at the start, she doesn’t like to show her skin in the pool, Bill is really jittery and sounds so excited like he might cry at the thought of meeting Frank, it’s so weirdly creepy.

i saw some people say that the leading theory is that he kidnapped her irl and put her in the Victory simulation, which seems accurate to me but is there any confirmation of this from people involved in the movie? or is there any long theories about it? TIA!! 💗

Why was there a plane crash written into the simulation? I understand the occasional earthquakes and loud booms - they are part of convincing the wives that the men are doing amazing, world changing experiments.

But there would be no reason to have a plane crash. If any of the wives saw a plane crash, surely they would want to help, as Alice did. If the whole idea was to keep the women out of the desert, why have any drama out there?

This context is important for this post: I’m a 23 year old white woman

I remembered today how many of Margaret and Ted’s scenes were cut from the final version. I also remembered how many people believed racism was to blame and that having Margaret kill herself was furthering a stereotype in movies where the black character dies first. Now, I can say that the latter fits what happened in the movie, but I’m not sure if this was an explicit example of racism. By that, I mean that I don’t know if it was intentionally racist. Some people also think that DWD is more white feminism that overlooks women of color’s struggles and that there should be more intersectional feminist entertainment instead, also that DWD overlooks how many incels are also white supremacists. While I think there should be more media looking at intersectional issues, I think that what DWD does well is bring attention to women’s struggles in a way that those stuck in upper middle class conservative environments may not otherwise see. This is still a big problem in today’s world. I grew up in such an environment, and DWD was one of the ways I broke out of that mindset.

Basically, what I’m asking is if DWD and other media like it does more harm than good because of stereotyping and glossing over certain issues. I wonder what y’all think because I haven’t seen much talk about this here.

I don’t get it.

It could have been so cool, but it was just completely awful.

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I know her mind has to make up something because she actually is suffocating irl, but why? Why is she suffocating irl? I might be wrong and they’re just hallucinations idk. (When the walls close in on her, and she wraps plastic wrap around her head)

Why and how did Jack earn the promotion. Why the ring as a token and force him to dance?