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just watch a movie if you want to. i want to talk about it with people. nothing i said even remotely approached spoiling anything.
So I watched it with friends and none of them agree with me on this. So I'm asking you if anyone felt similar.
Did anyone felt that the rape of the guy was directed to imply that incest was being done?
Not that there was actual incest, but that a combination of previous dialogue with cuts to the inbred man during this new conception and a shot where you only see their hair during the sex that appears to match color closely as if they were related.
Since it seemed like too big of a ceremony for just acquiring a pregnancy, I for at least a second was convinced that they were making a new inbred priest. But that is too convoluted to make any sense, so I'm at least only saying that there are element to make you you think it, rather than it is actually a thing.
Also a lot of people needed to pee during this movie. Probably half the auditorium at different times.
Accurate take. Midsommar never gets next level crazy like Hereditary did toward the end.I'd probably recommend Midsommar to someone who has yet to watch Hereditary as I think it would come off better without the raised expectations.
The movie didn't feel as long as the actual runtime, which is a plus, but I kept waiting for the movie to hit "next level holy shit" moment/s yet they never came.
Midsommar has a steady, consistent progression but never elevates above and beyond. There's a bunch of weird shit and some, for a horror movie, mild fucked up shit. But no holy shits.
I had the same experience with Hereditary. So this time I was at a showing with only 5 other people. Great experience.I've decided to never see an Ari Aster film in theaters ever again. I loved the film, but this is the second time that the crowd was the lowest common denominator expecting a Conjuring-esque horror movie, leaving them unable to process the themes or imagery. I had trailer trash sitting in the lower rows laughing at most of the beats in the film, some guy who kept laughing in my row, and some lady behind me that said "oh my goddd this is the worst film I ever saw." The crowd was genuinely ridiculous. Similar thing happened with every major story beat in Hereditary.
I really wanted to like this and Hereditary, but there's something about these movies that doesn't land with me at all. They look great and they have some fantastic performances, but I keep getting the sense that I'm trying to pull meaning out of movies that don't really have much going on. I mean, sure, there's a ton of work with the design, but I feel like both films are kind of incoherent, and I'm getting the sense that I watched either, but less satisfying, and in this caseRosemary's Baby (or hell, even Paranormal Activity 3), but longer.The Wicker Man
The movies bring up some interesting themes, but I feel like the leads barely have any actual agency and there's never any really satisfying resolution. In Midsommer,That being said, it's rare that I get this frustrated by movies, so I feel like there's something here that I just can't connect to, and I want to be as into these movies as everyone else that I know!it's frustrating to me on a couple of levels. a) that she works through the trauma and grief of her sister's murder/suicide by joining a cult that advocates and makes her complicit in murder/suicide, and b) that she's rid of the toxic relationships in her life in a manner that largely robs her of her agency, and by a group of murderous zealots.
I think you're meant to feel frustrated, or conflicted, or in other words that the ending is "dark" or "twisted" ... the reason the cult appeals to Dani is not because it's a community devoid of violence, but rather that their response to violence and death is to openly grieve, to share each other's feelings, almost literally. Compare the group display of emotion at the end to the scene of Dani wailing into Christian's lap in the opening, while he sits there disconnected and cold. Giving Dani more agency might dilute the point, which is that despite all the horrific things they do, the cult offers Dani the one thing she desperately needs in her life.
I'm happy about this, since I'm one of those who was ready for more. I did feel the small drags throughout the middle to end, but I was never bored. I also had fun as a Scandinavian watching this. I was thinking we just scared off a good part of our tourists lol. And I was like "woo" when Florence Pugh (who's my favorite actress these days) said "thanks" in Swedish which by extension is the same in Danish.
I wonder what the significance of the number 9 is to the cult. Nine days, every 90 years,9 sacrifices.
So I watched it with friends and none of them agree with me on this. So I'm asking you if anyone felt similar.
Did anyone felt that the rape of the guy was directed to imply that incest was being done?
Not that there was actual incest, but that a combination of previous dialogue with cuts to the inbred man during this new conception and a shot where you only see their hair during the sex that appears to match color closely as if they were related.
Since it seemed like too big of a ceremony for just acquiring a pregnancy, I for at least a second was convinced that they were making a new inbred priest. But that is too convoluted to make any sense, so I'm at least only saying that there are element to make you you think it, rather than it is actually a thing.
As if it was a thing on a previous version of the script, now scrapped, but the scene is still directed/edited in the same way to get there.
- Was the whole thing about feeding Christian puberty hair (and blood in his drink) a way to seduce him? Cause he had a hard time rejecting Maja while sitting at the dinner table. And when he went to impregnate her, it in turn also showed his true essence, in that he was basically over Dani for the past year and thus cheated on her with Maja? And the rune placed underneath his bed (that they had a "loving bond") was a way to make him believe that there could be something about this Maja? He also knew that she liked him.
LolNot sure if intentional butDani's cries were REALLY loud. Uncomfortably loud.
Yes, I know this. Whish is why I asked those questions.The tapestry when they first get to the village that pans by the camera shows all of the things she did to him. The pubic hair, the vaginal blood, the pregnancy.
What exactly in particular annoyed you with the ending of Hereditary? Like you I didn't hate it but I wasn't all that high on it and towards the end I checked out and was waiting for it to be over.Would you folks recommend this for someone like me who hated Hereditary?
Well... "hated" is not exactly the right term.... That movie was enjoyable enough but the final part of it just really annoyed me, hahah.
What exactly in particular annoyed you with the ending of Hereditary? Like you I didn't hate it but I wasn't all that high on it and towards the end I checked out and was waiting for it to be over.
I felt pretty much the exact same about Midsommar, probably even more so.
Well you might want to skip this or see it for cheap. I thought this was even more predictable than Hereditary.For me it's just so clichéd and predictable, basically, like I could see the ending happening from a million miles away. I really wanted it to surprise me, to shock me, but in the end during the last act the movie just bored me and it was such a huge disappointment.
Oh yeah.You can hear Connie being killed at one point right? It was very hard to hear at least in my theater but it sounded like a feminine scream when Dani takes the pie out of the oven.
Ok I figured but for some reason I could barely hear it.Oh yeah.
There's a scream in the middle of the day that causes everyone to stop and look around. That had to be the moment Connie was killed.
Guys don't worry; the Bears might be sold out now but more are on the way.
Not sold out, but postponed from selling.
This is definitely a movie you want to catch a matinee screening of... ideally exiting from a dark theatre into a bright sunny day. I'd say it enhances the experience of watching it.I am not big into horror movies but I enjoyed the ride on this one. It was devastating to watch straight out of the gate. It was a very strange feeling leaving the theater, like coming down off a huge emotional down pour. It was also interesting to come out of a movie in bright daylight (almost never happens with me) and have it reflect the disorienting affect of the non stop daylight that the movie had.
Fucking work kept me from seeing the announcement today. Fuckers sold out.
Haven't been this salty about missing a drop in a long time.