Don't Worry Darling: An Enigmatic Mess 

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In the original script (the one not edited by Olivia Wild and her team) Alice comes out of the simulation and remembers that she was seeking a divorce from Jack and that’s why he brought her into the simulation. She also logs onto a computer and sees she’s a missing person. Jack comes out of the simulation as well and he and Alice have a showdown outside the simulation and Alice kills him.

i’ll never understand why Olivia decided to keep all the multiple sex scenes but cut off Alice finding her own death certificate in Project Victory, kinda creates a plot hole.

I feel like this would have made a good 6 episode mini series. That way we could actually explore all these characters stories, answer all those questions, stretch out Frank’s obsession with Alice and draw out Alice slow peeling back the layers of the simulation.

the reason she hears Chris pines voice in her head is because Jack is listening to his podcasts in real life. same with the song she keeps humming.

I feel like the biggest problem with the twist is that everything falls apart once you think about it even a little bit. Jack is a jobless loser that somehow gets a good enough paying job to support him and Alice in the real world AND also pay for the simulation? He yearns for this idealised version of the 50's where he is successful and she is a housewife, but in reality he has to do all the chores and stuff that he presumably didn't want to do while Alice was the breadwinner, but now he also has to ensure she doesn't die. When does he even have the time for fancy dinner parties when he has to work full time, cook, clean, etc AND take care of his wife who can't even leave their bed? How did nobody notice she was missing? Olivia Wilde's character's mini twist also makes the whole thing fall apart. If the simulation can create other people like her kids without needing a real human connecting with them, why do they need to have any kidnapped women at all? Why couldn't Jack and all the other losers just make copies of their wives? Whats the difference between a fully simulated person and a person held in the simulation? Why did they think they didn't need to explain anything about how the simulation works? Seems like they came up with the main twist and were so pleased with themselves they didn't even make a second draft.

At one point, when Jack in the real world is signing up for the Victory Programme, he's asked if his and Alice's relationship is "Pre-Existing." This heavily implies that some of the women don't even know their "Husbands" in real life, and were essentially kidnapped.

Don't Worry Darling should have been a series, every plot hole they leave open and all the rushed twists could be explored and would be so cool

The fact that she suddenly can drive actually makes sense, seeing as she now remembered her real life, and presumably already knew how to drive there. What bothers me, though, is that she’s still restrained in the real world, so how is she going to get out of those with her husband dead next to her, and a billion locks on the door?

I feel like Olivia Wilde tried to make this Midsommar 2.0 with the odd visuals but she failed to realize Midsommar had the story and plot that the visuals complimented 😭

I remember reading an article about this movie titled “Olivia chooses Styles over Substance” and I think that’s the most accurate way to describe this hot mess of a film.

I interpreted a lot of those strange scenes as metaphors, or glitches in the simulation. For example, the eggs are a metaphor for her perfect life being an empty shell; the odd-shaped building symbolizes her eye. The earthquake tremors could be movement in the real world coming through into their fake one.

This could have been way cooler if it was either an actual psychological thriller about realizing you’re in a simulation and slowly becoming aware or losing your mind, or if it was a psychological thriller as all the wives become aware together and it turns into a hostile takeover of the simulation

I heard somewhere the original script had Jack NOT be her husband, but some employee at the hospital who doesn't earns that much. Which was a much better way of dealing with the twist, as it would only further highlight why so many women in the simulation have a backstory that seems copy pasted, they are kidnapped by incels they know in their actual lives, and their families, friends and actual husbands have reported them missing all along. Statistically speaking some could be lesbians and have had their sexuality forcibly changed by the stimulation. If it had been framed like that, this movie would have painted a very horiffic dystopian reality where incels obtained the actual means to make women subject to them and their pathetic insecurities. But no, Olivia scrapped the best version of the script, and gave us this. If that is not the ultimate sign she chose aesthetics over an actual good movie, I don't know what is.

“it was all a simulation” is the new “it was all a dream” on the level of disappointing and lazy twist endings

In the original script, Alice discovers the truth when she finds a portal to the real world inside a house for sale. She wakes up hooked to an IV and to a machine that puts people into the simulation. Alice unplugs herself, sees she’s in her apartment and in the year 2050. Upon looking around, Alice discovers that Harry Styles' Jack, due to their impending divorce, signed them up for Alt-Life, the equivalent of the Victory Project. Jack had faked her death and forced her into the simulation. Alice re-enters the simulation so as not to raise suspicion, but Jack figures her out and sends her for shock therapy, but it doesn’t work. Alice tricks Jack and then one night forces him to tell her the truth about everything. Eventually, Jack admits that he put them in the simulation because he wanted them to be happy again and that he was angry she had put work before him. Jack tells Alice the location of the exit portal in their house and Alice leaves. However, Jack follows Alice to the present day, and they get into a physical fight resulting in Alice stabbing him with a knife. In the simulation, Bunny finds Jack dead and Alice unconscious. Alice wakes up back in the 1950s in a psychiatric ward, is told she killed Jack and had dreamed the future where she was free. The final scene of the film is Bunny visiting Alice in the psychiatric ward. Bunny reveals to Alice there is an escape portal behind them and leaves. Alice begins to head towards the door and the film ends.

This movie would have been so good if someone like Jordan Peele had directed it. There was so much potential.

I guess Harry was right when he said the movie felt like a movie. There’s not really anything else to say

It doesn't make sense that Alice is a surgeon, yet people would certainly notice if she suddenly stopped showing up for her busy shifts. Also, Jack signed up for the Victory Programme because he didn't want to have to work, yet he basically has to look after Alice while she's in the stimulation, and make sure that she doesn't die.

spoiler: the reason she hears franks voice throughout her day is because in the real world, jack constantly listens to franks podcasts on his computer. so the movie is highlighting the cracks in the victory project (literally the simulation) and the glitches in it i guess. so when alice hears franks voice it’s actually from jacks podcast and reality seeping into th victory project. idk if that makes sense but yeah

Let's not forget that when Alice wakes up, she will still be restrained. 😬

Everything I've heard about this movie makes it sound like someone had a dream after watching a psychological horror anthology and just. Wrote down their dream verbatim and made it into a movie.

The plot twist of the wife of the villain randomly killing him reminds me of OSP's trope talk on plot twists: "if the audience knows there's a bomb under the table, then a clown jumps out and stabs someone, no one wins because the audience is left going 'uuuh, what?!'" That twist really had no reason to exist

I felt this should've been a 3 episode mini series - episode 1 is her living in this world and noticing a lot of slightly odd things and getting more and more confused, episode 2 would be her trying to escape and discover what is actually going on, and then episode 3 would be her in the real world and what happens with her trying to speak the truth and being gaslit by the world and feeling even crazier than when she was inside.

It's also crazy to think that after she kills Jack and wakes up in real life, she's tied to a bed next to a dead man with no one knowing that she's there. So essentially she's going to die trapped to a bed

i still cant believe alice ruined all her hard work on the food just for some head? like there was a perfectly fine sofa?? or counter??? or literally floor???? but you had to do it on the table??????😭

I remember watching a TikTok clip of the credits showing and someone in the audience just say “WHAT?!”, and then everyone laughed. Like that person said what everyone else wanted to say.

I just had a thought that maybe Bunny saying she “lost” her kids in the real world isn’t because they died, but because they were taken away from her, possibly because of neglect ? It’d explain why she still doesn’t appear to spend much time with them

Once the movie ends and right before the credits go up, you hear Florence take a deep breath as if she’s waking up. I interpreted this as she makes it back to the real world to bring an end to Victory.

The one character I could never understand was bunny. She implies that her children in the real world are dead, but when she’s in the simulation, she doesn’t really interact with her children. She barely spends time with them.

Oliva Wilde's character literally having the wandavision simulation-kids arc at the end is so random lol

I personally like the weird shifts in scenes because it makes it feel like a dream and already from the start you know something is up, it's artificial. Like in dreams your surroundings or situations can just morph into another thing and you just accept it because in the dream it makes sense.

17:15 Jack doesn't just believe that men should be providers, he believes that ONLY men should be providers.

Another horrifying thing i realized. Bunny referred to the other lady as "always pregnant", I was wondering what her backstory was as to why, then I realized it might be because her "husband" has a pregnancy fetish

I’m glad you brought up the messy contrast of creepy weird occurrences being immediately followed by mundane life moments. If there was an increasing ramp off of these instances, it would’ve been better

Pine's voyeuristic smile of satisfaction when he watches Alice and Jack stems out of the control of her sexual pleasure. He's the puppetmaster that created this world that is ultimately pulling the strings on her every emotion. It's like a passive threeway for him.

I think the biggest plot hole is that Alice is a SURGEON. If she was just a nurse I could under the financial difficulties. But a surgeon would not be living that kind of poverty with their salaries.

Olivia Wilde put my ego in check. This reminds me of those times I have a cool vague idea for a story in my head, with specific scenes and imagery that I know would be cool, but not actually put in the work to sit down and create a fleshed out world, characters, and plot with a good consistent storyline lol.

Honestly everything could have been fixed with like one sentence of dialogue: "the machine is breaking because the women's subconscious minds are fighting back" Like you get the symbolic layer of women fighting back against oppressive systems, you explain the random earthquakes and occurrences since they're literally "breaking" Victory, you add narrative weight to Gemma Chan's character killing her husband since it could be seen as the "final blow" to this program, and even makes Chris Pine's character's behavior have another layer since he's so sure of himself, he doesn't think his program can fail even if he spends the whole movie observing yet another crack in his code. But NOPE, vague explanation for the win.

Whenever there is over the top hype before a movie hits the cinemas, its a bad sign. The movie itself creates the hype, a good story, outstanding characters, actors, music everything. Then it lingers in your mind, you think and talk about it, you rewatch it and then it becomes iconic.

Feels like they tried to add some of that psychotic energy from black swan to the movie but forgot that it has to be explained and that it has to make sense

I'm so confused. Doesn't that mean that Alice would wake up handcuffed to a bed alone next to a dead man? Would she be able to escape that?

In the original screenplay Alice wakes up whilst Jack is at work and she finds out about the Victory Project on his computer as well as a bunch of missing posters as her family and the police tried to find her but Jack misled them. Jack comes home and Alice kills him in real life. Sadly Olivia changed the script and cut it out and instead went with the cliffhanger (seemingly setting up a sequel with Gemma Chans character in charge of the simulation)

After freshly coming off watching this, I'm gonna add this real quick: I believe Jack had to work for Frank (Pine's character) outside the simulation in order for access to it and to support himself and Alice. That seemed especially poignant when they were arguing the last time and Jack was saying how much he hates going out to work. I definitely think Frank had a cult-like following with everyone and was able to convince the men (and Bunny) to join him in his new world order mission. You can also see it in the way the other characters idolize and essentially worship Frank in the simulation that makes me think he convinced everyone on the outside to contribute to the Victory Project.

What makes me enjoy this movie isn’t the weird stuff that happens to Alice but how she reacts to it. It’s an exploration into her not knowing if she’s really crazy or if everyone is lying to. And it’s an exploration into her relationship with jack and how much she’s willing to forgive

So much of this movie’s plot would have been solved if all the people forced into the simulation were digital copies of the originals. No questions about bodies or death rules, really heavy stakes when it comes to Chris Pine’s character, the glitches can be a software issue (or Harry’s failed career being a programmer and his poor attempts at hacking his Florence-bot gives her extra abilities), and the escape from the simulation can be hijacking the bodies of the husband maybe (leaning into themes of SA, control and bodily autonomy). Ending the movie with Alice-in-Jack looking at Alice coming home tired in her scrubs would have been _haunting_

I've never seen the movie, but hearing people describe it leaves me with so many questions. Who gives Florence her eyedrops when Harry is away? Does she ever go to the bathroom? How is she able to escape the virtual simulation so easily? How much money does Harry have to make so he can pay for the apartment and the VR?

I could totally understand Olivia’s character wanting to be in that dream world over reality, her kids obviously died and the dream world she gets them. If my kids died I would want to escape too.

The quakes, Alice wrapping her head, etc… were glitches or changing in the program. Alice wrapping her head was basically her mind coming through trying to get herself out of this made up matrix, subconsciously. A better written script would’ve explained this. Also, all of these women aren’t married to these men. Some of these women were basically kidnapped by these men and put into this simulation.

This feels like one of those great idea, not-so-clean execution kind of things😅

I have seen the movie, read the original Black List script, AND read a version close to the shooting script. This movie is a Frankenstein's Monster of both versions with some more madness thrown in. Black List script version Alice was Jack's ex-wife who he managed to declare dead somehow before trapping her in the simulation. In the later version, she is a surgeon at the hospital and Jack is like an orderly who kidnapped her which makes more sense to me personally. Should have picked a lane instead of trying to be all things but also make Jack/Harry Styles kinda sympathetic. "Just loved you way too much to watch you have to work triple shifts to support us while I refuse to get a job."

You have to read the original script before Olivia Wilde ruined it. Jack was supposed to be Alice’s stalker and at the end you realize she doesn’t actually know him, he kidnapped her from the hospital. In the real world people were looking for her but she was in a secret location. There’s a part in the movie where she’s supposed to try and escape but they catch her and stick her back in the simulation. All the women in there were supposed to be kidnapped, and the Jack was supposed to be mean and abusive and very 1950s mean husband. Olivia Wilde took over and ruined the whole script, Harry Styles also did not want to portray and abuser because it would be bad for her image. Literally it would have been such a good movie if they had stuck with the OG script

As a woman who has men trying to control her body, thoughts, and beliefs on the daily, I understood the movie. Chris Pine's character watching them have sex is him showing his power and control. He watched them have a deeply personal moment that Florence Pough's character didn't want him seeing, but ultimately was powerless to stop him.

Kiki Layne having most of her scenes cut out from the movie was just insulting.

You can really feel the effects of the behind the scenes drama, it literally feels like there are scenes missing from the film

To be honest (maybe a hot take), I kinda liked the movie because of the cast, the stunning visuals and just the vibe it had. It may not be a great movie, but it was enjoyable and aesthetic to watch on my sick day!

Ironically a movie with the term "Don't Worry" in it had my mind wondering a lot and left me even more anxious and confused in the end!! 😞😞

I'm a nurse, so my complaints are related to keeping her alive lol. The clip with an "IV" in Alice's arm.... They used a butterfly needle which is used to draw blood, it isn't used to give fluids. IV fluids are not nutritious To prevent bed sores, she would have to be shifted in bed/turned every 2 hours. That obviously didn't happen, haha

At the end they made it seem like all the women were waking up and not believing their husbands. But then she drove away and it went no where

Imagine this as a mini series where they could go in depth with all the unanswered questions and plot holes.

This video is a frustrating mix of good complaints (there are definitely weird things that seem to just happen for the sake of being weird, like the eggs and the plane crash) and places where the movie did actually address those things, such as: • The “woman standing mysteriously in her backyard” is the person before Alice who realizes something is off about the town. • Ditto with the “strange phone calls from her neighbor”. • The distant shaking is supposed to sell that the men are working on something big and dangerous enough to warrant telling people to keep away. • Her hearing Frank's voice in her head (and having visions) is part of the system of repetitive messages and images designed to keep her brain in a state where it can be kept in the simulation (fairly common with horror media that involve hypnosis). • Frank's speech does not mean anything because the Victory Project is not real, so he is just improvising something that sounds inspirational. • Alice is exceptional to Frank because she has resisted the hypnosis more than anyone else who has been put into the simulation, which tests the limits of his system. The response of an engineer who found a really good QA tester mixed with the sadistic tendencies of someone who would trap people in a simulation. • Alice is shown to have an IV, presumably giving her what fluids and nutrients her body needs. • There was allegedly an earlier version of the script where we found out there was a missing persons report filed for Alice. • There are myriad reasons someone in Bunny's position might choose to staying in and stay aware, and a plethora of sci-fi media have explored those sorts of responses to grief. • IIRC, we were never told the women are fine if they die. We never see what happens to Margaret, and no one who tells Alice that Margaret is fine is trustworthy. • Alice can drive at the end because she regained her memories from the real world. • It is shown more broadly that Alice regaining her memories also caused the other wives to start to “wake up”. I agree the movie never explains why/how (or why/how that also causes streetlights to explode), but it does explain why Shelley suddenly turns on Frank. To the issue of the meaning of the movie, it read very much to me like a heavy-handed metaphor for living in a patriarchal society, and Wilde specifically talked about the focus on how “MAGA” men idealize the 50s. Far from your complaint about a lack of any meaning in the movie, my complaint after watching it was that it was *too* heavy-handed 😄

I think it would've made more sense if they made the Victory Project bigger. Maybe it's not just a simulation, but a physical building with the program running inside. Instead of Jack having to care for Alice, they have care centers in the building for the wives, like coma patients in a hospital. Maybe the town is laid out exactly like the building, so instead of a car chase at the end, Alice breaks the simulation and her real world self has to escape the real world building based on her knowledge. She kills Jack in real life when she comes home, and maybe the other wives physically wake up too, so the ending is all of them coming home and killing their husbands in the real world.

Watching this movie I was like dang they put Florence through it. Like having to get squished between a wall and a pane of glass so she can't move, cover her face with plastic wrap so she can't breathe, run barefoot on dirt/gravel, meanwhile everyone else is just like chillin lmao

I think that due to her high intelligence (she was a surgeon in real life) she started noticing flaws on the simulation just like that woman who jumped off the roof

This would have really been a thriller if they didn't make Jack an incel. If he had been a charismatic, popular, and conventionally handsome person who had a good job who still took Alice and put her in this program, it would have sent absolute chills up my spine.

The aesthetics of this film are gorgeous. Like, so visually stunning. And the concept of it is intriguing. So HOW did it turn out like this??

The reason I think chris pines character said she challenged him is cause he was the programmer so every time she pushed the limits of the simulation he could edit it

"A succession of sequences" is the hands down best way to describe this movie. The next time i want to watch a near future pocket dystopia pseudo romance thriller about women's bodily autonomy, ill just watch Fresh again.

I paused it at the awards ceremony scene to go switch some laundry over and I was flabbergasted that there was still an hour left lmfao. It had so much potential

I feel like you missed some of the plot and symbolism 1. You see Margaret in the yard holding a red plane that was her son's, later you see the same red plane crash. The plane crash didn't happen, it's Alice's subconscious leading her to the exit. 2. The visions (walls closing in, Margaret in the ballet studio, wrapping her head with saran wrap) were essentially nightmares where the real Alice felt trapped and was conveyed with claustrophobic imagery 3. The earthquakes could have been anything to do with the simulation like updates, bugs etc. 4. Alice is being taken care of by Jack IRL with an IV 5. Shelley and Frank were working together, you can hear her voice when the husbands enter the simulation. She turns on Frank because he was foolish for keeping Alice and Jack in the simulation instead of removing them and now the whole Victory Project is compromised. Shelley was also hypnotizing the wives during ballet class so she might have even been the mastermind of the whole project but lets Frank be the figure head because potential husbands would likely listen to a man over a woman. 6. There is Alice in wonderland symbolism with the main character (Alice) and Bunny (white rabbit)

I interpreted the plane crash as something Alice imagined, like her mind telling her something is wrong with the reality she’s living in. There’s the toy plane she saw with her friend who lost her son and that manifested into a warning sign, leading her to the place she knows she’s not supposed to go (and also where the little boy wandered off to), which is why no one else saw it or heard it.

With the elderly couple jumping off the cliff in "Midsommar" and the plane falling from the sky in "Don't Worry Darling", could we say "Florence Pugh looking up and seeing something tragic" is its own genre by now? No? Takes more than two occurrences? That's fine, thought I'd ask just in case.

Honestly the whole idea of the twist is such an amazing idea and it’s a literal crime that they didn’t perfect the idea to make it make sense.

For a psychological thriller this had my theater in cacophonous laughter more than anything else. Very funny theatrical experience honestly. Like a really great 10 year old cinematographer got to write, direct, and edit a movie

Imagine if Jack had put as much effort into actually having a good relationship with his girlfriend as he did kidnapping her and shoving her into a simulation where they had a good marriage, he wouldn't have needed the simulation at all. Especially since he apparently landed a good enough job to support the household plus however much it costs to have a kidnapped girlfriend shoved into a simulation so the job hurdle was already covered.

they NEEDED to reveal the twist about halfway through the film or at least 3/4 of the way because i believe they did it in the last like 20 minutes which obviously didn't work...ugh this movie had SO much potential

my biggest complaint is that this movie spends so much time building up the """plot twist""" it doesn't really explore the themes too much beyond surface level. Like, I assumed going into the movie that the characters were in a simulation, a fake city in a remote location, something like that. it wasn't really the big reveal or plot twist the movie built it up to be.

This just sounds like someone wrote a movie by only listening to descriptions of Wes Anderson and M. Night shyamalan movies and mashing these two together

This movie felt like Olivia Wilde watched Stepford Wives and then thought she could do it better. But then didn’t

They DID explain the scene of Margaret just standing there holding the airplane toy. Later it's explained she went out in the desert with her son and her son was taken away from her. In the first moments of this you see the son dragging an airplane toy. So her standing there was an implication of something's off and her holding the toy is supposed to give us that unsettling feeling. It means she's grieving about her son. I don't think the movie was that bad, I enjoyed watching it. I do agree it was weird they would show things like the plane crashing or the eggs without yolks and then not really come back to it. Would've loved to have that come back or seen what the jobs of the men were.

I don’t know if it’s for comedic effect but it does feel like a lot of things in the movie flew over your head. Like the reason why Harry’s character wanted them join the perfect world

I really think that something happened during editing because of the "Chris pine is dead now" scene. It is so out of nowhere that I cannot believe that a writer can pull something like that up without realizing it comes out of nowhere. I think there was a whole storyline about Gemma Chan's character that was cut out of the movie. And starting there, I wouldn't be surprised if it was the case with several other plot moments.

How I viewed Jack’s motivation. He lost his job and thus Alice had to work more. He found the podcast: Alice was tired and ‘unhappy’ from working. He was being ‘ignored’ by her. I assumed he would have found a job eventually but maybe a low wage type of thing. He turned to victory thinking he could make the perfect life. I think it was less about the job and more about society, gender roles, reverting back to a time people (still) think we’re perfect and happy.

olivia wilde saw wandavision and she was like “i wish i came up with this... wait a minute, I CAN”

I will say Florence was phenomenal and the visuals stunning!

Th drama surrounding this movie is much better than the actual movie itself

This is like a darker take on "Wandavision" but the one who goes nuts and creates a whole new reality is Vision

The weird moments Alice has is her mind breaking from being in the virtual world

I love this film to absolute death

I actually really liked this movie, and that's probably because I don't normally judge my enjoyment according to the structure and the actual factors that go into making a film, I just decide based on how I was affected emotionally. Overall, I found myself terrified with the fact that all these men thought they could decide what made these women happy and take their lives and trap them in this world. I think the reason I became more and more afraid as we started to unpack the reality of Victory was the fact that their entitlement isn't actually fictional and is the mindset of a lot of people. All in all really great video you put out and it's really interesting to see another perspective

I think’s it tacky (in a lowkey funny way) that Olivia Wilde gave her character be the 3rd lead in the film behind the two main stars😂😂 Kiki Layne should of been the 3rd lead

They say in the description it’s supposed to be in the 50s but the soundtrack is very sloppily arranged. The Oogum boogum song came from 1966/67; I had looked this up because I had to make sure my own soundtrack was era accurate because a lot of people hate these slip ups. The love witch gets a pass because it’s not a period piece movie but has vintage styling to look like a 60s or 70s psychedelic psychological thriller, it was evoking the styles we remember while being a new movie.

i think this movie needs to be rewritten and done properly again. there is so much potential

They wrote off so many key scenes from the original script that could’ve solved a lot of the problems people have with this movie. I was genuinely pissed off when I read it after my screening.

I’ve watched it twice now, and I think I can explain one thing! The scene where Alice wraps her head in the plastic wrap comes after she witnesses the girl slash her own throat, and after she’s told that the girl is somehow just fine now - so I think that scene is her intentionally trying to suffocate herself to see what happens to her? (Like maybe to see if she’ll just wake up in bed again, just like she did in the plane crash sequence?) We just see of course that she ultimately can’t go through with doing it, when she tears the plastic off.

I thought maybe Wilde's character wanted to remember their kids are actually dead, because she wanted to avoid whatever killed her kids in the first place. And I think the kids probably are incapable of growing up, because they're simulations, so it made sense for her to know, otherwise she'd be weirded out if she didn't know why the kids stayed the same

Thank you for bringing up Humans. It's amazing and I LOVED Gemma in it!!! Really underated

I was super excited for this as well. At least Florence’s performance is amazing as always. You guys should check out the Pitch Meeting for this after. It’s a good laugh.

the last scene where gemma chain stabs chris pine is the biggest head scratcher for me. we are never told why she stabs him. what is she probably gonna get out of it.

Thank you for this video. I felt so insane after watching this...I was like did I miss something...and had all the exact same questions you pointed out! This movie had so much potential and it's like she gave up caring during the editing and just threw crap together.