Box Office
Break-even · 2.5xBudget$35M
Worldwide Gross$86.7M
Don't Worry Darling turns its 1950s thriller plot into a vehicle for heavy-handed messaging against traditional gender roles and male authority, with the Victory Project framed as a patriarchal trap. This overt ideological focus earns it a 7/10 woke score—best avoided if you want story over lectures.
Don't Worry Darling centers its thriller plot on a simulated 1950s company town where men enforce rigid housewife roles on their wives through technological control, with the twist revealing the Victory Project as a patriarchal prison created by incel-adjacent figures.
Director Olivia Wilde explicitly framed the film as 'The Feminine Mystique on acid,' drawing from research into 4chan and disenfranchised white men online while basing the antagonist Frank (Chris Pine) on Jordan Peterson; this ideological framing drives Alice's (Florence Pugh) awakening and the core conflict of escaping systemic male domination over women's autonomy and pleasure. The narrative's critique of traditional gender norms and toxic masculinity is not incidental but foundational, turning the retro aesthetic into a vehicle for messaging about misogyny and female subjugation.
We've run a full content analysis on Don't Worry Darling and scored it 7/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
Our analysis checks for themes like identity politics, race-swapping, gender ideology, environmental activism, anti-religious messaging, and other progressive agenda elements. The score breakdown above shows which specific categories were flagged and how heavily they factor into Don't Worry Darling's overall score.
Wokeometer focuses on ideological content rather than traditional ratings (violence, language, etc.). Don't Worry Darling is rated R. For a full picture, combine our woke analysis with the age ratingto decide if it's right for your family.
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