Don't Worry Darling : Critiquing the nostalgic cultural logic of late patriarchy.

The article analyzes *Don't Worry Darling*, a film depicting men from the 2020s who escape into a computer simulation of 1950s suburbia to reclaim patriarchal control over their wives, who are modeled on real women forced to support the simulation without consent. The film serves as an allegorical critique of persistent patriarchal fantasies and 1950s nostalgia, highlighting how such nostalgia functions within late capitalism to divert attention from its harmful psychological effects. Drawing on Fredric Jameson's theory of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism, the article argues that the film exposes how patriarchal nostalgia supports capitalist interests by masking socio-economic issues behind gendered and racialized scapegoating. Ultimately, *Don't Worry Darling* critiques both the idealization of the 1950s and the contemporary socio-political climate that exploits this nostalgia.