Olivia Wilde’s latest feminist flick, “Don’t Worry Darling,” is a mid-century modern-themed fever dream — both for its heroine and audience. In the time-warped town of Victory, California, Alice and Jack, played by Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, drink vodka martinis, have lots of sex, and conform to strict gender roles.
Like all the other couples on their cul-de-sac, Jack brings home the bacon (by working as a “technical engineer” for the mysterious Victory Project, the company responsible for their cookie-cutter marital bliss) and Alice plays housewife (by keeping their idyllic homestead spotless, looking pretty, and making sure dinner’s always ready on time).
But not everything is what it seems, and Wilde makes sure that point is drilled into her audience’s heads again and again — as if, as Adam Nayman at The Ringer notes, “there’s going to be a pop quiz.” Wilde certainly has a penchant for metaphor, and when her
