Don't Worry Darling

Don't Worry Darling

A thriller. Released in 2022. Olivia Wilde directed it following her first film, Booksmart. She also appears in it. The lead is Florence Pugh. In November 2022, I watched it for the first time at Movix Kameari.

It depicts a married couple living in an artificial and strange town built in a desert.

In the town each wife does all the housework learning ballet in the daytime and makes her husband comfortable with utmost effort after he has come home. I felt that the dated style was funny but I was charmed by the protagonist, Alice, who has gradually started to recognize the strangeness of the town, question its leader and her husband and desperately get away from it so as to win freedom. Florence Pugh played really well as the bewitching, pretty, cute and awesome Alice.

Harry Styles acted the role of Alice's husband. I thought that he speaks in a British accent with a somewhat familiar face, so I checked him after watching it and I knew that he is a member of the vocal group One Direction and made his screen debut with Dunkirk directed by Christopher Nolan in 2017. He has still had a short career as an actor. I could understand why he emitted the aura that is unique and different from the one that other actors have. By the way, seemingly, he has dated with the director since a couple of years ago. Although it is a juicy story, yet I wonder if it was difficult to be coached about acting by his lover and make out with Pugh in front of her.

The artistic and sophisticated film might kind of upset middle-aged and old men who have received the benefits of a man's world and might make women bored by a man's world identify with Alice. Moreover, you can watch the wonderful and eye-pleasing performance of Florence Pugh during all two hours of it.

ドント・ウォーリー・ダーリン

『ドント・ウォーリー・ダーリン』

スリラー映画。2022年公開作。監督はオリヴィア・ワイルド。『ブックスマート』に続いて２作目。出演もしている。主演はフローレンス・ピュー。2022年11月にMovix亀有にて初観賞。

砂漠の中にある人工的で奇妙な街で暮らすある夫婦の物語。

外で働く夫の為に、彼の妻は、昼間は家事に勤しみ、バレエのレッスンをこなし、夫が帰宅してからは、彼を癒すことに全力を注ぐ。そんな家庭が集まった街。時代遅れの世界観に違和感を覚えたが、主人公のアリスが少しずつその街の異様さに気づき始めて、その街のリーダーや夫を問い詰め、自由を求めて爆走する姿に魅せられた。妖艶で綺麗で可愛らしくて凛々しいアリスをフローレンス・ピューが好演。

アリスの夫を演じたのはハリー・スタイルズ。英国訛りだな、とか、どっかで見たことある顔だな、と感じたので観賞後に調べてみたら、ヴォーカル・グループ、ワン・ダイレクションのメンバーだった。映画デビューは、2017年公開のクリストファー・ノーラン監督作『ダンケルク』。役者としてはまだ新人さん。道理でほかの俳優さんとは違う独特の雰囲気を醸し出していた訳だ、と納得。因みに、監督のワイルドと本作公開前から交際しているらしい。下世話な話だが、恋人の彼女に演技指導されたり、彼女の前でフローレンス・ピューといちゃつくのはやりにくかったのではなかろうか。

男社会の恩恵を受けてきたおじさんにはバツの悪い、男社会に辟易している女性には感情移入しやすいであろう、芸術的で洗練された作品。そして、フローレンス・ピューの素敵な演技を終始拝める眼福な２時間でもある。