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hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. as ever is mark kermode. hi, mark. very interesting week. we have don t worry darling eagerly awaited after all the stuff that went on in venice. we have blonde, which may be a marilyn monroe biopic, or maybe not. and catherine called birdy, a medieval tale with a difference. oh, i thought it was a biopic, but anyway, more on that later. ok, so don t worry darling, which is a new film by olivia wilde, who made booksmart, which i loved. florence pugh and harry styles are alice and jack chambers. they live in a kind of absolutely rarefied, dreamy, late 50s, early 60s americana, you know, glistening cars, mad men suits, fabulous dresses. the wives stay at home and prepare the house and cook the meals and wait for the return of their husbands, who are out doing work which cannot be spoken of when they come back. and florence pugh s character seems to think this is idyllic and wonderful. and then, one of her ....
americana that doesn t exist and isn t real. and here s the thing it s basically the stepford wives. the difference is the stepford wives at the beginning of the stepford wives, you think, ok, you know, is there something off kilter? you can t quite figure what s wrong with it. in the case of this, from the beginning, it is absolutely clear that this is an artificial world, that none of this can be what it seems, that somehow, they re in a bubble or an illusion. now, florence pugh works wonders making the character of alice engage you, so that even though she s in this completely artificial environment, you believe in her character and you engage with her character. harry styles, he s fine. there ve been some sort of cruel things said about his performance. it s ok. it s staggeringly unremarkable. the problem is that you very quickly figure out there s one of a number of possible scenarios that are the solution to how this is all happening, and then when it s revealed ....
but iyou ve got it on a trajectory, it s gone up and it s then going to go down. well. hang on. just let s just explain exactly what happened. so in that 2020 budget, when rishi sunak was chancellor, it was the biggest ever increase. now, i then had to balance the books a year ago. it was an incredibly difficult situation, but it was necessary for the markets and it was necessary for the battle against inflation. so what i chose to do was to freeze that capital budget in cash terms, which is not a freeze in real terms. i hope as soon as we can afford to, we can get back to real terms growth. but i m absolutely committed to public investment. in a speech coming up shortly, the labour leader sir keir starmer is expected to say his party will have an obsession with economic growth to raise living standards. he will also say that labour won t be able to turn on the spending taps if it wins the next election. we ll bring that speech to you live here on bbc news. the gaza r ....
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