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The film is smooth, competent, (mostly) well acted, and merely tedious.
Clearly, something is deeply wrong here.
The wives all wave their hands in unison at their husbands.
The men drive off in gleaming, uniform, multicolored cars into the desert.
The women go to dance classes where they are told, There is beauty in control.
There is grace in symmetry.
Later, hell talk about how the enemy of progress is chaos.
The people we are playing were real people in a world very much our own, Pine said.
He didnt need to say it.
The movie isnt exactly subtle on this point.
Dont Worry Darling, alas, does neither of these things.
She tells the driver and wants to go help.
I dont go that way, he says tensely.
Thats not my route.
Its never fun when the audience is so many steps ahead of the characters.
The movie, in its own way, functions like the town of Victory itself.
We keep waiting for the movie to surprise us, to shock us.
We keep waiting for the chaos.
In other words, it brings that bit of chaos the movie has been sorely missing.
But its not a total failure, either.
