Asking An Expert About Don’t Worry Darling’s Twist

'I thought it was … not very good. It was a strange movie.'

The paid post is late this week because I just didn’t have my shit together. Sorry this is only coming to you now! Spoilers for Don’t Worry Darling follow.

Florence Pugh and a manicure worth worrying about. Photo: Screenshot.

It is still Don’t Worry Darling release week in the United States of My Brain, but I promise this is my last DWD Dispatch. After this I am fully devoting myself to Tár. This week I have a little fact check: what’s plausible and what’s junk science in the Olivia Wilde thriller? I called an expert, Toronto-based game designer and developer Carlo Spidla to talk through the schematics of The Victory Project. 

I mean, first things first: does the technology exist to make such an immersive game that a husband could trap a wife in?
No, definitely not right now. We don't have the level of immersion that you would see in a movie like that, where it's basically so immersive that it can't be told from reality. We do have photo-realistic worlds. But I don't think that yet carrie…