CreepyMcCreeperson
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But at least they tried!
"Midsommar" Movie From "Hereditary" Director (Discussion Thread)
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But at least they tried!
Started this late last night but fell asleep. It was like 2am. Got to the part where there announced the beginning of the festival. I need to finish it today
Update: movie was definitely different not sure if I “liked” it but it was interesting. I gotta double back and watch hereditary now.
Update: movie was definitely different not sure if I “liked” it but it was interesting. I gotta double back and watch hereditary now.
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PoorAndDangerous
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Yeah but they're also there to write a thesis on this specific group's rituals and practices. Alot of people go way out of their way to try to be accepting of a different culture, especially when you're there on their land and in their country. I wouldn't have even been there in the first place but definitely leaving when I see two old people commit suicideJust finished it.
Let’s see:
Being the only black person in a group of white friends
Going with an unknown person (especially white, and especially in EUROPE) to a remote place in the middle of nowhere
Feeling weird, and STAYING
Feeling weird around people who don’t speak, and STAYING
At least the other two felt weird and attempted to leave.
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Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
I'm going to write an in depth analysis of this movie. I decided to rent the blu ray at red box.
As I said earlier in this thread, the movie is purposefully made to be viewed upside down. Notice how many shots we get of things being upside down: the drive to the village shot upside down, the boyfriend looking upside down at that man hanging from the ceiling, etc. The film chooses to dress up violence and moral depravity with flowery symbolism, specifically by using the colors blue and yellow. That's a recurring theme, blue and yellow. Blue represents death and yellow represents life. The building where the friends sleep is all blue. They are sacrificed in a yellow house type dwelling. The main character wears a orangish-yellow shirt, up until she witnesses the sacrifice. The very next scene she is wearing a blue shirt. What Ari is trying to do, imho, is subvert the typical symbolism associated with evil, gore and violence. Usually films use darkness and the colors black and red to express those themes. Ari uses brightness to subvert your expectations. This is why it always being daytime is emphasized. Remember the one character panics when he realizes it is 9pm and it's still bright out.
Also remember the opening scene of the movie is a view of a small snowy town surrounded by darkness. Also remember that the parents bedroom is blue and yellow and they are laying like they too were sacrificed, which they were by the sister. The main drive of the movie is for the main character to come to terms with what her sister has done. The way to do that is to embrace what she did as something not as shocking or revolting, but something necessary for a greater good.
The cult is able to recruit the may queen by sharing in her pain and mourning. Her inner struggle is subdued by finding a place where the people are never separate, not in feeling or thinking. This is shown when the guy in the hut that's being sacrificed starts to scream in agony. The entire cult acts out the pain the man is feeling. What the main character is looking for the entire movie is a place in which she can retreat emotionally without being judged. She tries with the boyfriend and his friends but comes to the realization that they dont accept her and that she doesn't belong. Remember when she does the shroom trip...every4hing is going well until one of the friends says "you guys are like my family." That triggers a panic attack because she associates family with pain and loss, and so doesn't want to be associated with family.
This film is not what people think. People think Ari is trying to humanize death and dying and putting it in a context as regular human nature. I dont think that's it. What hes trying to do is fool you into accepting what's happening without seeing as evil, because indeed it is evil. This movie shows how people get recruited into cults and violence driven hate groups--shared experience. The clue to it all is in the boyfriends apartment where they find out the girlfriend is coming with them. On the coffee table it says "the secret nazi language of the uthark". The book cover is yellow...
I'll write more later
As I said earlier in this thread, the movie is purposefully made to be viewed upside down. Notice how many shots we get of things being upside down: the drive to the village shot upside down, the boyfriend looking upside down at that man hanging from the ceiling, etc. The film chooses to dress up violence and moral depravity with flowery symbolism, specifically by using the colors blue and yellow. That's a recurring theme, blue and yellow. Blue represents death and yellow represents life. The building where the friends sleep is all blue. They are sacrificed in a yellow house type dwelling. The main character wears a orangish-yellow shirt, up until she witnesses the sacrifice. The very next scene she is wearing a blue shirt. What Ari is trying to do, imho, is subvert the typical symbolism associated with evil, gore and violence. Usually films use darkness and the colors black and red to express those themes. Ari uses brightness to subvert your expectations. This is why it always being daytime is emphasized. Remember the one character panics when he realizes it is 9pm and it's still bright out.
Also remember the opening scene of the movie is a view of a small snowy town surrounded by darkness. Also remember that the parents bedroom is blue and yellow and they are laying like they too were sacrificed, which they were by the sister. The main drive of the movie is for the main character to come to terms with what her sister has done. The way to do that is to embrace what she did as something not as shocking or revolting, but something necessary for a greater good.
The cult is able to recruit the may queen by sharing in her pain and mourning. Her inner struggle is subdued by finding a place where the people are never separate, not in feeling or thinking. This is shown when the guy in the hut that's being sacrificed starts to scream in agony. The entire cult acts out the pain the man is feeling. What the main character is looking for the entire movie is a place in which she can retreat emotionally without being judged. She tries with the boyfriend and his friends but comes to the realization that they dont accept her and that she doesn't belong. Remember when she does the shroom trip...every4hing is going well until one of the friends says "you guys are like my family." That triggers a panic attack because she associates family with pain and loss, and so doesn't want to be associated with family.
This film is not what people think. People think Ari is trying to humanize death and dying and putting it in a context as regular human nature. I dont think that's it. What hes trying to do is fool you into accepting what's happening without seeing as evil, because indeed it is evil. This movie shows how people get recruited into cults and violence driven hate groups--shared experience. The clue to it all is in the boyfriends apartment where they find out the girlfriend is coming with them. On the coffee table it says "the secret nazi language of the uthark". The book cover is yellow...
I'll write more later
Nero Christ
Sniper out now on all digital platforms brev
I took it as her finally feeling like she was apart of something (a family once again), and being around people who seemingly cared about how she felt. Remember that scene where the women scream with her...that's the sort of consolation she was looking for from her boyfriend earlier in the movie. No doubt she understood what was going on.
Ironically, we see them two members who screamed when they died at the end basically letting us know this cult like all others is bullshyt
From the script:
On the upward LIFT, we cut to a tight CLOSE-UP of Dani’s face. She is being carried forward. Her expression, which begins as one of great distress, slowly starts to TURN. Her agony subsides into sudden CONFUSION. What’s happening? Where am I? I’m on this chair, being carried! Her expression goes from FEAR to EXCITEMENT to CONFUSION again. She suddenly lets out an abrupt LAUGH (which we can’t hear over the music and the now-deafening FIRE). Dani is now being taken over by an * invading sense of pride and contentment. This soon evolves into a manic exhilaration. Dani BEAMS. She has been embraced by a new family. She is Queen. She is not alone.
A SMILE finally breaks onto Dani’s face. She has surrendered to a joy known only by the insane. She has lost herself completely, and she is finally free. It is horrible and it is beautiful.
CUT TO BLACK
A SMILE finally breaks onto Dani’s face. She has surrendered to a joy known only by the insane. She has lost herself completely, and she is finally free. It is horrible and it is beautiful.
CUT TO BLACK
Just finished watching. The cinematography is beautiful but other than that I didn't feel much for any character or the story.
Most movies that I've seen that feature cults try to show the human aspect of it etc but I just dont give a fukk and can't empathize with it. A bunch of goofys looking for family. Since this movie didn't really focus much on the escapes I was left to stare at the screen for most of the movie. There wasn't much tension or drama. this was more of let's just wait and see what happens next movie.
Even though I was not invested in any of the characters and was left uninterested at the story, I am glad I watched the movie as weird as it sounds
6.5 out of 10
Most movies that I've seen that feature cults try to show the human aspect of it etc but I just dont give a fukk and can't empathize with it. A bunch of goofys looking for family. Since this movie didn't really focus much on the escapes I was left to stare at the screen for most of the movie. There wasn't much tension or drama. this was more of let's just wait and see what happens next movie.
Even though I was not invested in any of the characters and was left uninterested at the story, I am glad I watched the movie as weird as it sounds
6.5 out of 10
Just finished watching. The cinematography is beautiful but other than that I didn't feel much for any character or the story.
Most movies that I've seen that feature cults try to show the human aspect of it etc but I just dont give a fukk and can't empathize with it. A bunch of goofys looking for family. Since this movie didn't really focus much on the escapes I was left to stare at the screen for most of the movie. There wasn't much tension or drama. this was more of let's just wait and see what happens next movie.
Even though I was not invested in any of the characters and was left uninterested at the story, I am glad I watched the movie as weird as it sounds
6.5 out of 10
I dont think I've watched much cult movies (unless you count Eyes Wide Shut)
But the movie was really detailed and the main character is exactly the kind of person that'll fall for cults. The only people I cared for was Josh because the whole studying in Sweden was his idea not Christian's , despite being misled by Pelle and the two latino couples cause they wanted to leave immediately after the suicide rituals. Dani's story was sad, but she just wasn't much of a sympathetic character to me. The film was trying it's best to make Christian the bad guy of the story, but I could see why he felt like Dani was too much emotional baggage for him, even before her family died.
They broke that young lady in a couple days and all they needed to do was give her some Molly, expose her man as creep and put her in a mosh pit with the Brady Bunch.