Don't Worry Darling review, Culture Whisper
It’s a story older than Jesus: prisoners in a cave, unaware of the outside world, deluded into thinking the shadows on the wall are the sum of their reality. One of them is freed from those falsities – leaving the cave and gazing at pure, objective reality as illuminated by the sun.
Whether Don't Worry Darling – Olivia Wilde's second film as director – intended to recreate this ancient allegory is anyone's guess. But that same unreal, Platonic, and even Lynchian unease permeates the film's sun-soaked, suburban world: where the weather never changes and the residents stick to their roles. At all costs.
