Alice, Darling

The whole story follows a woman who loses her sense of self under a controlling male partner. Her two female friends help her trust her own fear and stand between her and Simon at the climax. The death of a missing young woman becomes a warning in Alice's mind while she judges her own safety. The film makes women's support central, but it treats Simon as one abuser instead of blaming all men.

Simon repeatedly reads Alice's email, cuts her off from friends, puts down her judgment, and expects sex and attention on his terms. The movie presents his behavior as male entitlement and shows it harming Alice's body and mind. Female friendship gives Alice the strength to reject his control. The story does not attack marriage, faith, family, law, or Western society as a whole.

A small Men's Rights Reddit thread accused the film of feminist double standards and of presenting women as the main victims of partner violence. Other users in the same thread rejected that reading and called it a realistic abuse story. No broad anti-woke campaign or mainstream identity-politics dispute appeared.

Alanna Francis has a cached score of 45 for work about women's relationships and abuse. Anna Kendrick scores 58, while Katie Bird Nolan scores 55 and Lindsay Tapscott scores 60 for feminist work or work that backs less-heard voices. Mary Nighy scores 30 for women-centered trauma stories. Many other writers and producers score from 0 to 22, so the full team does not show a strong shared pattern.