The Most Disturbing Moments In Don't Worry Darling Ranked

Alice becomes increasingly bothered by her suspicions that something strange is going on in her seemingly ideal upper middle-class, mid-century world. Nobody believes her about the plane crash and she's starting to feel crazy. Almost as if to test the nature of her reality, she takes the plastic wrap that she had been using to keep tomatoes and lettuce fresh for the fridge and wraps it tight around her face. She spins the cellophane around her head several times, each layer crushing her features a little more and making it harder to breathe. When Alice realizes that she is, in fact, suffocating, she tries and fails to find the tail end of the plastic. With life and death urgency, she claws at her eyes until she manages to rip open a piece of the clear film, then pulls the rest of it away just in time. 

This isn't a suicide attempt, per se, on Alice's part, but it's an undeniably troublesome thing to do to oneself. At this juncture in "Don't Worry Darling," the audience is still trying to find its footing. Is Alice trapped in some hell that only appears to be a heaven? Is whatever's causing Margaret's delusions contagious? This scene occurs about halfway through the movie, so viewers probably realize deep down that it's not likely our protagonist will kick the bucket quite so soon. Still, Pugh acts out this bizarre impulse with such emotional honesty, you can't help but gasp for breath yourself.