New Don't Worry Darling Trailer Portrays A 1950s Utopia With A Lot Of Dark Secrets
Olivia Wilde has established herself as a great actress, but it’s her visionary flair for cinema that’s on display in the trailer for the latest film she’s directed, Don’t Worry Darling, coming from New Line Cinema. The full trailer was recently released and it’s very unsettling.
The brightly colorful 1950s landscape of the film belies the hidden secrets and dark undercurrents just waiting to bubble forth to the surface in the film starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles as Jack and Alice Chambers and Chris Pine and Oliva Wilde as Frank and Bunny. This is Wilde’s second at-bat behind the camera after her first movie, Booksmart.
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The film is set in an idyllic 1950s Levittown-style housing development where things quickly begin to go sideways. This puts the piece in line with such games as Stubbs the Zombie, and movies like Fido, Suburbicon, and the recent Amazon series, Them, all set in 1950s planned communities gone wrong. Florence Pugh plays a doting housewife who quickly discovers there’s something seemingly sinister about the idyllic suburbia that she’s found herself in.
The trailer opens with the couple in wedded bliss as a jaunty beat overlays everything. She vacuums, cleans, and cooks, all while her husband drives a perfect car to his secretive job. It’s only after she’s taking a dip in a swimming pool, and then watches as the footage of it gets replayed to her over her living room TV she’s dozing in front of, that she starts to wake up to the sinister nature of the town. She feels like she’s drowning.
The trailer cuts to a party where the hostess clinks her champagne glass and opens a speech about the achievements of Frank, the
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