Just saw this. Gotta say I liked Hereditary more but it was worth a watch, despite a lot of issues, mainly the run time. Its beautifully shot and hallucinatory and bizzare and feels terribly uncomfortable. However, it absolutely blows its load far too early with the incredibly graphic suicide scene and nothing else nearly has that impact afterward, and it happens very early on. It has a sense of dread but its still just...not very scary.
What are your thoughts?
Soi horror garbage. A must addition to the 5.0 edition of the chart
I liked it a lot
Is this on netflix or something or why is everyone talking about this? I don't recall seeing posters or anything for this in my local cinema
in theaters my bro
I think it was supposed to be unsettling and not scary. There was very little gore which is nice for a change.
What I don't get after reading a few of these threads is how so many anons seem to misunderstand the main character.
But maybe I only understand because I'm a woman who grew up in a cult and I've been in shitty relationships in the past much like the one Dani is in.
I suppose it's easy for a bunch of Male anons to see things from Christian's point of view that he just has an annoying girlfriend who is ruining his college years even though her sister killed her parents and she has a legitimate reason to be upset.
I know it's cool to be edgy on Yea Forums but seriously- you fucking faggots would be miserable if one of your siblings killed your parents.
>anons having anything positive to say about a female lead
I get what you mean about unsettling, but there WAS intense gore early on and it kind of deflated the climax a bit for me. I don't know, like all the tension didn't build up to a satisfying enough conclusion
Also what was even the point of the inbred character, it seemed like that character was going to be much more central
I don't know, I still enjoyed it I guess. I'm also living in Sweden and they absolutely nailed the Swedish mannerisms which was amusing
yeah that whole scene with Dani's trauma is completely copy-paste from Hereditary and it was super unearned. The whole theme of Hereditary was family and we got time to see Toni Collette be a mom and love her kids so it was horrible when it got to the scene of her crying, but this one was just jumped to with like 5 minutes of lead up because Ari must love getting actresses to break down like that because its so dramatic
otherwise it wasn't great but pretty good, I thought it was well shot too but some of it did get a little showy and pretentious with the camera work. Also I think the comedy at the end was a cop out after they wrote the story going in such a weird direction and didn't know how to make it make sense or be scary
They way they portray drug induced panic attacks are accurate down to a tee
>anti-white film
trash. there it goes.
>but there WAS intense gore early on and it kind of deflated
Were the guys lungs being pulled out not gorey enough for you??
>Also what was even the point of the inbred character, it seemed like that character was going to be much more central
Did you sleep through this movie?? He was wearing Mark's skin. That's what happened to Mark after he was led away by the girl. She fucking showed him alright.
they intentionally inbreed for oracles because they're "uninhibted" by consciousness or something. I think they plastered him all over the trailers to bait normies
t. someone who clearly hasn't watched it
? I've been in a lot of midsommar threads and there are plenty of anons taking her side too. sounds like confirmation bias on your part
Sneedsommar
Lungs out scene was p gorey sure but it absolutely paled in comparison to the gruesome suicides
Yea because of the trailers I expected it to be featured far more
>He was wearing Mark's skin.
Nah, he was still asleep in the holy book barn when this happened, the guy wearing Mark's skin could have been the guy who got mad about the tree. I don't think it's super important though.
Actually this movie isn’t not really pozzed at all despite the director being named ari. If it were on Netflix or a peel movie, the black guy would have been the chosen mate with “superior genes”. Glad no bullshit was pulled
Men don't have empathy lol
Yea if anything it shat on anthropologists and the cultural relativist 'its just their tradition keep an open mind' mentality
I dunno to me the peak gore being near the beginning didn't detract from my enjoyment. I got more enjoyment out of seeing dani go completely insane
that, and the pagans actually seemed cooler than the outsiders.
The "graphic" suicide scene wasn't nearly as haunting as the way they showed the corpses of Danni's family.
In fact, I honestly think the most chilling part of the suicide scene was when Danni saw it in her dreams and saw her sister there, hooked up to her little Yiddish oxygen mask.
I realized with this film that my friend and I could probably write a better criticism piece than the cucks they have reviewing for TIME.
They had a fucking former Salon journalist do this one, and I believe her exact words were "with dialogue that tries in vain to make you care about the travails of young, self-absorbed academics." It's actually as if she didn't even watch the movie and thought we were supposed to take any drama that didn't involve Danni seriously. It's honestly one of the blackest depictions I've seen of grief and does a good job where I feel Antichrist failed in following up its incredibly nightmarish opening with a nightmarish, but still coherent, consequence.
This bitch has a Pulitzer prize for criticism. WHAT?!
I thought Dani was a precious qt and her boyfriend was a stupid douchebag who she still let walk all over her because she just wanted to be loved. She lacked self esteem and wanted to please everyone else over herself
>"with dialogue that tries in vain to make you care about the travails of young, self-absorbed academics."
w-what? how?! did she even watch the fucking movie? I don't think we were meant to feel any sympathy for them, but at the same time, I didn't think they deserved what they got. To me that made their demise more powerful.
The New Yorker review is dogshit as well
>"with dialogue that tries in vain to make you care about the travails of young, self-absorbed academics."
What? I didn't get that one bit lol. Every one of them were depicted as self serving and arrogant and died because of it, what a strange interpretation. I was literally rooting for the black guy and boyfriend to die by the end and I'm pretty sure that was the intention
mark did NOTHING wrong
that poor dude was just tryna vape n chase some tail, feels bad man
I interpreted it the same way you did as soon as I heard one of his friends imply that she was distracting him from his thesis.
This was coming from a group that regularly partied hardcore with him on the weekends. Christian isn't as awful as his friends, he does try, but he tries in the same way you try to keep your teacher from flunking your dumbass. Staying with someone out of obligation is never a long term solution.
Of course, I also actually had a loved one die on me and knew how horrible it was to not have anyone to actually lean on. People can be there, but when they've got their bumfuck, bootstraps, "go to therapy" attitude (because therapists raise the dead) to it, or worse, they're even crazier with grief than you are, it can honestly be worse than not having anyone there at all.
Did Dani even get a good ending? Midway through I thought it would be more explicit, like she'd decide to marry Pele and kick Christian to the curb but in the end it seemed like the cult had just orchestrated Dani thinking Christian cheated on her (they barely put up a fight when she goes to look), when in reality he was drugged out of his mind and clearly not having a good time. When everyone burns up Dani seems happy in the final moments, but then what? This was presented as a fairy tale with the opening tableau and all the folk art, I think the moral here is not "find a family that accepts your grief", but how grief can suck you in and maybe make you do horrible things too. I'm just confused why so many reviews have said she made some kind of peace at the end. Maybe for her character in that moment, but it's bleak as fuck considering.
Also, when Christian is in the bear suit and they're about to light him up, why do the cult members tell him he's being banished to the darkness or whatever? Seemed like a weird callback to the sister's message from the beginning imo. But why would they say that to him when he did what they wanted by fucking that girl?
>the guy wearing Mark's skin could have been the guy who got mad about the tree.
They don't match in height
It was a great film but not a horror in my opinion. Also I felt like the part about mark getting killed and skinned was slightly underexplained. Who killed him? Was it the guy who was mad about him pissing on the tree?
I didn't see this anywhere but ok.
All I saw was people shitting on her acting skills and insisting the character was a "cardboard cut out"
Add it to the soi horror
>I'm just confused why so many reviews have said she made some kind of peace at the end
Reviewers are stupid see You're absolutely right, she was manipulated and taken in by an insane cult when she was at her most vulnerable and grief striken
Is this bait?
>because im a woman
No you're not tranny
>it can honestly be worse than not having anyone there at all.
Yea seriously. My entire fucking life right there.
you must only be on during yuro time. I've only seen praise for her acting
There isn't much to compare him to so I don't think that's much of an argument against it.
It's definitely not the inbred kid though.
thought it was a great horror film. brilliant commentary (and often satire) on how brutal and primitive white culture is, and how white people view said culture through tinted lenses.
It wasn't the inbred kid wearing marks skin. The inbred was in the room (hence the heavy breathing off to the left of the camera), but his deformities would mean marks skin couldn't fit on him. It was someone else in the community, maybe tree guy
>horror film
don't give away the fact that you're baiting in the first sentence
Oh look it's the "there are no women on Yea Forums" meme.
I usually frequent cgl and if you know anything about that board, you'd know the women on the despise trannies.
No I'm not a fucking tranny.
>mfw the entire theater was roaring with laughter at the sex scene and most of the climax
This movie sucked
>I'm just confused why so many reviews have said she made some kind of peace at the end.
I can get behind that reading, the cult members were the only people in the entire film to accept her and show her any empathy. This is signalled pretty hard by the bit where they scream in agony with her after she sees Christian with the redhead.
Ok then explain how tree guy is 10x Mark's size. That wasn't the old man half naked in the barn.
Weak b8
>im so smart i laughed at a movie with obvious humor in it
cringe
>hence the heavy breathing off to the left of the camera
That could have been Josh, traumatic injuries like the one he got can result in laboured breathing like that.
>i-is not a horror! I-it had intentional humor!!!
Cope
Same here but why does that make the movie suck?
I thought that made it better.
>he took away something else from the film, so it must be bait
I’m pretty sure I took away what the director intended. also, I do consider the film to be in the “horror” category, though also suspense/thriler-mystery
I think the part about banishing him back to the blackness was a reference to "the Black One" or whatever it was called, the person who orchestrated the first maid-queen dance by tricking the villagers in their history. He apparently did it and then chose the last woman standing (after the others had danced themselves to death), so Dani (the maid queen) choosing a person to sacrifice is a role reversal of this, and the person she chooses comes to represent The Black One
They even show him breathing like that before being pulled away
Its enjoyable because everyone was laughing and not taking it seriously but it sucked because it fell flat on its face as a horror movie
>Inb4 its not horror brainlet!!!
Keep telling yourselves that
maybe anabelle 3 would have been more your speed
I don't make shit up.
I never said it wasn't a horror movie. You're just assuming I'm taking that stance.
A lot of horrific things happen in this movie so that makes it a horror movie to me.
It's really fucking good. Overwhelmingly disturbing. No film has ever portrayed drug use/abuse as well as this one both as an observer and under the effects.
I've done shrooms several times and while I did get visual hallucinations, they were never clear like when she's looking at her hand or her feet being part of the ground.
It was more subtle like when the flowers are moving on her crown later on or when the food is moving in front of people at the table.
Is it a box office success?
The soundtrack has some excellent moments, the final suite in particular.
I thought this too about the drug use. Also the opening sequence which many people have complained wasn't developed enough absolutely shook me. Even suspecting after a certain point there was going to be a suicide, the slow reveal of the cars running, tubes everywhere, the girl in the mask. Fuck. What an unsettling choice. That whole sequence floored me and I was instantly filled with dread for the rest of the film, it completely earned the "bad trip" moments later
I don't know what you're talking about because I'm in the US and awake during daylight.
Budget $10 million
Box office $12.6 million
Not quite. Do you really expect the average American to want to watch this, when NPC favorites like Anabelle and Spiderman are out? Even if it was the only movie at the theater, I don't think they'd want to watch it.
>There isn't much to compare him to
The fuck are you talking about?
The old guy was way bigger than Mark. They are even shown on screen together.
>Anabelle
This got a theatrical release? Thought that shit was only on random streaming services?
well I think no one mentioning her acting in here is evident. you're right that it's easier for us to empathize with Christian, but you're lying to yourself if you see her character is infallible.
MEMES
Doesn't mean he can't stretch Mark's face over his head
I never said she was infallible. Just relatable.
Just a reminder onions posting is not an argument, especially if it’s just an image reply
No-one is saying that but she's by far the most sympathetic character in the film.
But it does mean he was too tall to be the guy in the barn. Wearing his skin. It wasn't just his face he was wearing by the way.
Seethe
Why do redditors believe everyone is arguing with them? Do you really not realize people are laughing and mocking you?
This. At least someone gets it.
I like that song by Veruca Salt
Eh maybe, skin is stretchy though.
I seem to recall a lot of people saying her trauma was plenty reason for acting neurotic. again, no one in this thread has criticized her from a misogynistic angle.
Are you really here just to post the same 20 images over and over again, 40 times in a thread until it hits bump limit?
I’m a girl too. I didn’t think Dani was that annoying, but virtually every part of her life is extremely unhealthy, even taking into account the fact that she’s mourning. The whole point of the movie is that Dani’s approach to romance is so irredeemably fucked that joining a death cult is still a step up from her horrible codependent relationship. Every single character in this movie is an unhealthy person who makes bad choices, including Dani.
Explain his legs and penis then. I know you want to be right but I think you need to rewatch the movie.
Agreed. It was a great way to set up Dani and Christians terribly toxic relationship without revealing the tone for the rest of the film. That opening sequence takes place entirely at night and carries a lot of typical tropes for a horror movie. Then the rest of the is entirely different yet even more horrifying.
Only real autistic people take this much issue with a horror movie also being a black comedy
I agree with you but I think its common for people who experience trauma like that to behave that way - its not her fault her sibling murdered her parents just like it isn't her fault that her douche bag boyfriend gets intoxicated and cheats on her.
The only bad choice Dani made was to stay with her shitty boyfriend and the only reason she made that choice is because she needed someone to lean on after her family was murdered.
[Spoiler]she gets what she needs in the end so it's fine[/spoiler]
>no one in this thread
Right, and at the beginning I said it was in other threads. They have since been pruned.
Looks way stockier than Mark in the screenshot I posted earlier. I'm just saying it's not implausible and makes a some sense given what we'd seen before in the film.
Is that a camrip?
No that's from the official blu ray
It's from a clip on YouTube that some guy filmed at a screening
Even before her trauma, Dani has a terrible relationship, is at least partially aware it’s terrible, and still won’t end it because she’s scared of being alone. Christian and Dani are both too cowardly to leave - Christian because he’s a pussy who’s scared of negative emotions, and Dani because she’s too weak to handle being single. That’s not a major stain on her character, but it’s still not a good approach to building a meaningful long-term relationship.
The stuff she does after losing her parents and sister makes sense considering what she’s gone through, but a lot of it is still fucking retarded. It’s not a good idea to go on a party getaway where there will probably be drinking and drugs right after you experience a major trauma. Dani is so scared of being without her mediocre boyfriend for a single month that she ends up on shrooms in a foreign country with an all-male group who don’t even like her and intentionally didn’t invite her in the first place. She tries to gain approval by forcing her way into situations where she isn’t welcome, and by doing that she just ends up further alienating herself.
The only reason the cult works for her is because Dani wants complete empathy and inclusion. That’s an unreasonable expectation, even for someone going through a difficult time.
I loved this movie. The group I went and saw it with all hated it though. I think maybe they were expecting a stereotypical horror film rather than just watching the movie for what it was. The sex ritual was great. The score for the film was amazing too.
Those were my exact thoughts, though I will say the very last shot did give me chills
do we get to see her bobs?
asking for a friend
>The score for the film was amazing too.
I know right?
The bit that plays when they first enter the sleeping barn is beautiful.
>imagine going to the cinema to watch this unsettling piece of garbage instead of comfy Annabelle Comes Home
yes. had perfect nipples
I saw this film with my qt girlfriend and the 16 year old chads in front of us couldn't sit through the movie for more than 10 minutes without checking their Snapchat feed. Then whenever there was something sexual or violent they just writhed in their seats like retards. And then this nigger to my left was like "HE ALREADY DEAD, WHY DEY SMASHING HIS HEAD AGAIN WITH THAT HAMMER".
Ari Aster is based. Normies can't handle it.
in b4 "jumpscare bad" or onions-face post
thanks senpai
Shouldn't have pissed on the goddamn ancestral tree.
>being distracted by randos instead of focusing on the kino
cringe
Mark was a retard. Josh was a good boy though
Yeah but its distracted by like 20 old ladies being full on naked
I can multitask.
I ate popcorn with my right hand.
Fingered my girlfriend (8 years younger than me) with my left.
Watched kino with my eyes.
Tongued your mom's anus with my tongue.
Shouldn't have taken pics of the book!
>it was a black comedy!!!
COPE
Hi, Pelle. Do they have WiFi there now?
>gives his life to try and collect more information for the anthropological community
He was a good boy
Which cult?
>It’s not a good idea to go on a party getaway where there will probably be drinking and drugs right after you experience a major trauma.
If she didn't go her boyfriend would have just cheated on her so I think its better that she got her revenge.
>she just ends up further alienating herself
No she doesn't - she just distances herself from shitty college guys who all end up dying like they fucking deserve.
>wanting complete empathy and inclusion is an unreasonable expectation, even for someone going through a difficult time.
The fuck. No it isn't. The hell is wrong with you?
Jehovah's witnesses
>be told not to take photos
>do it anyway
He had it coming. Typical dumb American behavior. Invade someone's space and then just do whatever you want even though they're flat out telling you that you're being disrespectful.
Wasn't the family killed by Pelle?
it was an accident
This is what bugs me, I get Dani being upset with Christian but why wouldn't Dani be upset with the cult? They were obviously gleeful about her getting cheated on.
Dani is cute as fuck.
>complete empathy and inclusion
I should have said “automatic” instead of complete. Support and friendship are things you have to earn from other people. Dani has nothing in common with the “shitty college guys” and spends every interaction with them glued to her boyfriend instead of trying to make friends. When she shows up at a party where all of them are present, she zones out of their conversation completely. In Sweden, she spends most of her time with Christian instead of bonding with anyone else (except Pelle, who already likes her because he’s attracted to her). Even then, she still wants to be invited to things and included in group plans, as if being physically present is the only requirement to build relationships. The only environment where you get unconditional acceptance without doing anything to merit it is a cult, which is why Dani fits in so well there.
And if you have to follow your boyfriend around 24/7 to make sure he doesn’t cheat on you, you need a different boyfriend. That’s common sense. Staying with someone you don’t trust is poor decision making.
People who say they didn’t like it or didn’t understand were either
A.
>looking for a more traditional horror film
B.
>not looking into the heavy handed subtext
Or C.
>self absorbed normies exactly like the main “western” characters
Maybe that’s what aster wanted, was to expose NPCs. It’s so obviously about the lack of social awareness, cohesion and togetherness in western society and how everyone is affixed only on the exterior and themselves. Also the anxiety that living in such a society can cause. It’s not really even a horror film which is why I wish they didn’t market it like that but hey I didn’t make the damn thing.
I thought a lot of it was silly but I did enjoy the subtext and the way the commune worked on film, such as feeling the pain of the other members in contrast to the aloof and callous main cast from the beginning
stop making threads about this kino
we neets and poors have to wait until it's realsed on the torrents
have some compassion
I don’t think they were happy about that, they were happy about new blood being brought into the commune and the prospect of a future child
Too many subplots and useless characters
get a job so you can watch it. maybe this is the motivator you need
>heavy handed subtext
Yeah, fucking retard. The real horror of this movie is how the main cast acts towards each other and the commune
I mean when the guy who brought them to Sweden literally has a scene explaining it to Dani and reviewers don’t mention it at all I would still say it’s heavy handed
>academic plagiarism is scarier than murder
Hell I'll go with that and say okay they weren't "happy." But they were actively supporting it. Unless seeing Christian just in the act of having sex broke her mind, how could she not be pissed with everyone there. They she and Christian were together and then they go with it while they dragged her off to dance.
I don't think it even qualifies as subtext. It's a plot point
imo seeing christian fucking the ginger could have broken her mind. she was extremely attached to him and they gave her a ton of drugs beforehand
They knew*
The idea of such a conceited and parasitic society is scarier than small scale murder in a “horror” film to me, yeah
I don’t know if that was a plot point more than a bit of motivation from a character and in that case you could consider inner workings and motivations of all characters plot points, but maybe I’m just a pleb, who knows.
>agree to disagree
Have you never seen a horror movie before?
That's not what I was saying at all.
Also I'm too old to listen to modern music. I don't get your zoomer reference, sorry.
You’re better off not getting to be honest
>glued to her boyfriend instead of trying to make friends
No. She hangs out with the cult women for most of the film after they arrive.
>And if you have to follow your boyfriend around 24/7 to make sure he doesn’t cheat on you, you need a different boyfriend. That’s common sense. Staying with someone you don’t trust is poor decision making.
Shows how much you know about men. They all cheat.
t. roastie
have therapy
Why'd they all start wailing with her when she found out then?
I’ve known more women to cheat than men, just sayin. Can’t put everyone into a certain box. And Dani is a good female character in my opinion
I have an innie not an outie so no. Take your meme and shove it up your nose.
I've seen both but heterosexual men are prone to it, especially if they are stereotypical masculine morons.
Well yeah, chads and stacys are gunna keep trying to find their optimal mate because they can, normalfag uggos can’t and so they cheat less
have you been around people who weren't given much attention as kids/young adults? they go insane with lust over anyone that gives them any form of attention.
He pissed on muh ancestral trwe
They have an after the fact support group, they start wailing with the old dude's failed suicide and when the guy caught fire. But that doesn't change the fact they approved of the actions that led to those people and Dani getting hurt.
Btw why did they bother killing people in secret? Seems like they were going to kill most of them anyway. Where they all just waiting to orchestrate Dani's mind beak?
Also would Dani have been killed if she hadn't won the dance? Was the dance fixed? Even if all the girl's took a dive how could they know Dani would be able to handle it?
>normalfag uggos can’t and so they cheat less
In my experience it wasn't "normies" who were cheating.
Imo Dani was there as breeding material from the very beginning, that’s why Pelle was so happy she was coming along. Ingmar had the same intentions for Connie. Everyone was glad Dani won the dance but I figured they would have kept her either way
This is a movie you could call unsettling, I really liked the sound design
I don't think it was necessarily fixed. presumably the other swede "brother" had hoped his indian gf would have been the queen. remember the ceremony where they praise Pelle for his intuition? I would think they both had the same goals.
Yea. I don't think you understand how cults work.
Did you know that JWs have an entire film dedicated to how parents let their children die because they refused blood transfusions? Its literally an hour and a half of parents crying over the fact that they chose to let their children die.
yeah see a lot of questions and motivations are kinda muddy which is why i think it's important to remember the whole fairy tale framing device.
Naw, fuck Dani. Manipulative psychopath
Huge financial flop. One of the top three biggest bombs of the year. Nobody is going to see this movie. Literally no one.
>Pelle gets to be May King and spend the next twenty years impregnating Dani
>meanwhile Ingmar’s crush gets drowned and he dies in a fire
F for Ingmar
"they all cheat"
Not all, but if you go only after the genetic elite like the pathetic excuse of a failed nazi you are, the guy will obviously have much better options and will be tempted to cheat, specially if he's in a relationship with a trashy person.
>t. Low IQ poster
>genetic elite
I don't know what that is because I don't see people like this. You lost me with your nazi agenda pushing.
Was Ingmar burned? I thought it was just 2 randos
Spiderman, Anabelle, and Toy Story are out. I highly doubt the average person will choose Midsommer over those. I was pleasantly surprised no one walked out of the theater desu
In what way. I love how you don't even bother to explain your bullshit.
I get the way the cult operates, they are indoctrinated. My original question was why Dani had not been as upset with them as she was with Christian? That took me out. She blamed the entire thing on him when its obvious everyone around her was enabling his actions. The only answer is that seeing him have sex was the final straw for her sanity but I'm having a hard time buying that. I actually think it would have made more sense if she set the entire village on fire, or burned the tree/holybooks
Her acting was pretty underwhelming compared to Toni Collete’s in hereditary in terms of grief scenes. She also looks mad chunky and has a short neck the same width as her head and whoever was in charge of wardrobe must’ve hated her fucking guts because she looked straight up matronly in the worst way throughout.
What would have happened if he started eating her ass and sucking her tits?
she interacts with the women in like 3 scenes and all are very brief
>relatable
Are you also a fat girl?
Floptacular!
Christian was a poor guy who got dated raped then killed
F
Uses her boyfriend to vent through her bipolar episodes, worms her way into the Sweden festival, cheats on her boyfriend then overreacts to him having sex in the missionary position, plus she grinned while he was burned alive
>Was Ingmar burned?
Yeah, and their shitty yew painkiller didn’t even work
This was for
I thought he took the yew juice, and it was the other guy who was screaming who chose not to.
Isn’t the yew juice a toxin of some kind?
t. R*dditor
Gonna say jumpscares are cheap now?
>She also looks mad chunky and has a short neck the same width as her head
So? She looks normal. It was believable. For once we get a depiction of what looks like a normal average woman, where the focus of the film isn't about her appearance as opposed to some shit like fem Ghostbusters or that shitty female version of superbad.
>Josh appears to be the only one of the friends who isn't a complete idiot
>think he's going to find out the cult is killing people
>when it shows him sneaking out during the only dark hours I figure he's going out to investigate, and either die for knowing too much or narrowly escape
>nope, he's just taking pictures of the book he was strictly told not to fuck with for his dumb thesis like a dipshit and gets whacked that way
I liked the movie but the secondary characters were weak as fuck, nobody knows or cares that people are disappearing randomly or dying until corpses show up in front of their faces
>average
the average woman would kill to look as cute as Pugh. she does objectively have a wide face, though. I think it's cute
>her little bjork sami looking nose
CUTE!
>She blamed the entire thing on him when its obvious everyone around her was enabling his actions.
He didn't have to get fucked up on weird period blood drug juice, he chose to do that shit.
You're exaggerating. It was way more than that.
>nobody knows or cares that people are disappearing randomly or dying
Dani asks several times actually.
I have the same body type as her but I'm Asian. I'm considered fat by most standards. Yea she has a cute face but she's not the typical anorexic actress you see in most horror movies.
>Normal average woman
Unless you’re a fucking South American the average woman isn’t a short stout frumpy dumpy teapot with no neck
See
>I have the same body type as her but I'm Asian. I'm considered fat by most standards.
Well..yeah
See
I thought she was gorgeous (tho she looks like my ex so..)
Thank you for agreeing with me in a very round about way
Because that was my point
She was super dependent on him before that. She kind of realized she was being too much before but didn't work on that. He was also a massive douche though and he should have been honest with how he felt. I get trying to ease her through a tough time, but he also was shitty and manipulative so he was doing more harm.
How does that justify them giving it to him with the intent of getting him to do it? And then them carrying on this act while she's away, even though when they all know she's with him. There's no reason that Dani's madness or insanity should have been limited in scope to Christian only. Hell at the very least she should have tried to sacrifice Christian and the one he slept with, if she were simply insane. Imo the movie failed to convince why she was not as hardened to the cult as she was to christian. How does the women crying with her gloss over the fact that everyone betrayed her? Did they explain their bullshit to her off screen and she bought into it?
>he doesn't appreciate short girls with gorgeous eyes and huge thighs
low test. let me guess, you prefer asian women?
Imbred character was the god they worshiped my dude, why'd you think he was sitting on a fucking cloud at the end
If it was a different horror movie or regular movie it most likely wouldn’t have bothered me but her general chubbiness and bad outfits distracted me and made her character less believable/enjoyable. She’s not mayqueen material imo but admittedly that’s just preference.
I was hype for it because Ari Aster desu, did not dissapoint.
The upside down shot of the car was excessive
I prefer tall and slender Scandinavian women. Not a slightly less deformed looking Arya Stark but no judgement
Because:
>she was in a fucked up grieving emotional state that Christian failed to address/help her with because he badly wanted to break up with her and didn't really love her
>she was wholly accepted by the commune in three important ways:
>by Pelle who showed empathy for her situation
>by the girls who moaned by her side when she discovered her BF's sex ritual
>and by the rest who made her May Queen
It's important to note that going into this Christian was basically her only lifeline for emotional support. Even after everyone else was dead she asked the cult members if Chris could come with her for the shit they wanted her to do, but they refused. (well known cult tactic to cut off a prospect from their loved ones) They elevated her and accepted her, and they gave her power. In her grief from existing PTSD that he didn't help her from and seeing him fuck a stranger, having been successfully brainwashed, and being tripped out as fuck on psilocybin on top of that gave her ample room to send Chris off to be burned alive.
>She kind of realized she was being too much before but didn't work on that.
I think she was trying to when she was on the phone with her friend. But then you know, her parents died cause her sister was batshit crazy.
Keep in mind she was also dealing with her crazy sister up until that point
Hereditary was dog shit and I don't think this looks interesting in any way
>How does that justify them giving it to him with the intent of getting him to do it?
He's an individual that could say no at any fucking time. But instead he was just a weak dickhead as per usual.
So you just wanted to watch something typical like Stranger Things because you prefer skinny women which can be seen in literally any fucking movie or TV show.
Wow. What cool preferences you have.
>well known cult tactic to cut off a prospect from their loved ones
This guy fucking gets it
If I wanted to see a delusional fat girl in ill fitting clothes I’d go to the mall and people-watch. She looks like a medieval peasant and I’m supposed to believe there’s some it-factor or regal quality the cult/director sees in her? Nah hard pass
>She looks like a medieval peasant
So did everyone in the cult, stupid.
There were for sure better looking/built women in the cult
I think many like myself enjoy novelty in appearance. anya taylor joy comes to mind as an example. she's not THAT fat
You gotta be fucking jokin.
Just like in hereditary, the director purposely chose hideous looking extras.
I'm pretty sure a lot of them were made up to look worse than they actually do in real life.
Shes a twig
Don’t compare Anya to that dumpy little gnome
You don't understand. I'm not saying he didn't do anything wrong, my point was that they all did her wrong and that should have been very clear to her. I am willing to grant that I am just failing to understand how someone joins a cult, it hard for me to see how, but I'm not totally sure the movie did enough to convince that Dani's decisions at the end made sense within the logic of the movie itself.
>my point was that they all did her wrong and that should have been very clear to her
Well yeah. What cults do is usually considered morally wrong.
She joined them in the end, so that's where she did something wrong, as far as like, what most people care about being wrong and right.
Like of course it's not ok to kill someone for cheating on you.
Theres no comparison. One is rail thin and the other actually has meat on her bones.
Jump scares without a nice atmospheric buildup are both literally and figuratively cheap tho
I was never unsettled maybe my brain is too warped from internet use. that granny pushin his ass forward was hot where do i sign up
This wasn't a happy ending for Dani though, the cult didn't accept her because they actually care for her, it's only because of tradition. They dgaf about her.
>where do i sign up
In Sweden apparently.
They don't give a fuck about anybody silly. It's a cult.
That's my point, so many people are saying Dani got a happy ending because she has a family now, but she really just traded one piece of shit for another.
Was anyone else completely unfazed by anything in the film? Legitimately not a single thing unsettled me and I got disturbed by Hereditary. This just felt entirely predictable and not impactful
Yea but she does get to be queen.
Well what got you in Hereditary?
>the VIOLENCE AND GORE is the climax for me!
jesus christ! get a load of this absolute brainlet.
Most people in these threads have been defending her, including me. Christian was a douche who only cared about himself. Stayed with her, gaslighted her, expected her to not actually come, and immediately threw his own friends under the bus for his career. I still dont agree with how he ended up though.
Toni Collette is a seasoned actress with decades of experience. Pugh did a pretty good job.
Christian was a massive faggot. Dani wasn't being manipulative, she was just in a very difficult position in her life and she didn't have it all figured out. It would've been much better for both parties if they split ways but Christian wasn't going to do it because he's a chickenshit pussy and Dani wasn't going to do it because she didn't want to lose someone she cared about again.
I think in Hereditary it had to do with the overwhelming emotions of the family combined with all the trauma they had to face. In Midsommar I never felt much of a connection to the characters and any bizarre moments to do with the Swedish folk I just took naturally with acceptance (like jumping off the cliff). Of course there's some messed up stuff in the movie but I never felt like there was enough tragedy/weight behind it for me to actually be affected. And again, I feel like Midsommar was just too predictable to be frightening.
Runtime was my main issue as well. The movie made every point in needed to make in 90 minutes. Would be very easy to edit it down without losing any of the atmosphere.
I agree with the predictable part, but I don't think the movie was meant to be surprising.
Also keep in mind that anyone that posts on image boards is gonna have a lot more knowledge on pagan ritual sacrifice than the average person.
Normies probably didn't predict the trajectory as well.
That's a bit of a cop out. Christian wasnt the greatest guy but he probably did love her in some sense, theyd been together for 4 years, and breaking up with someone after a tragedy like that is questionable. He was just a young guy who didnt know what to do and made some wrong decisions. How would you have handled it?
See. You get it. I completely agree with you.
Alright, I gotta get this off my chest bros...I would marry Dani.
POST THE FUCKING CAMRIP BEFORE I GO HOGWILD
Is this another one of those "reject all traditionalism because it's actually a cult and you need to be your own individual" horror movies?
Sounds like you're the one coping user, you're pretty desperate to shoo facts away to seem smart
Going to come out and say, as someone who has been here along time, I had no substantial knowledge of paganism other than it was the period before Christianization, I didnt predict this film as well as I do most horror films. I was completely surprised at the point the old woman jumped off the cliff. This film also felt timeless in that I had no idea it had been over 2 hours, I was captivated the whole time.
I'm starting my binge reading into paganism, specifically nordic and scandinavian.
it's a break-up movie. not at all really about the cult itself and i have no idea where you'd get this idea from
It was made quite clear before Dani's family died that Christian didn't want to be in a relationship with her anymore, or at the very least he had been on the fence of breaking it off with Dani for a while. The point is, he should have made up his mind and acted rather than fucking around and stringing her along while continually losing interest over time, because when shit hit the fan he got trapped, just like you said. Obviously it would've been a douche move to dump her right after her family died to go slay puss in Europe, but if he would've been honest with himself from the beginning he wouldn't have gotten himself in such a shitty predicament.
Yeah, sure, but when are most people, especially young, honest with themselves? You're projecting an image onto a flawed character way too hard. Are you honest with yourself most of the time?
Josh dying really took me out since he was really respectful of their culture the entire time up to that point.
>i have no idea where you'd get this idea from
the trailer
>theyd been together for 4 years
He didn't even know that until she told him and then he tried to fucking argue that it was only 3 n a half.
this premise is so fucking specific i have no idea where you'd even pull it out from.
For me it was the opposite. Hereditary was good and I enjoyed it but not the way I enjoyed Midsommar and that's cause I could relate to it.
Couldn't relate to the stupid nuclear family in Hereditary.
that thic granny tho
I assume the villagers would've gotten angry as those aren't standard mating practices.
>Florence Pugh's thighs when she's sitting at the table in those shorts
It's different when you're in a relationship with another person. I'm not going to claim I'm always honest with myself when it comes to solely individual matters, but I'm certainly not going to lie to myself and my partner/bullshit my way through a relationship if I'm unhappy. That's just going to be wasting my and my partner's time.
I came in expecting it to be like the Wicker Man but it felt more like the remake with Nicolas Cage, right down to the bear costume and funny scenes of people screaming.
Shit was trash. I never felt anxious never felt trapped. If Everton just went along with what the group was doing no one would’ve been hurt. Idk trash
>to go slay puss in Europe
Ha well we know that isn't what happened
I dont get the bear either. Been researching bear symbolism in nordic/scandinavian paganism but there doesnt appear to be any.
Volk was a bear that Thor was fond of that’s all that comes to mind tho
Volk?
Tits or gtfo
What an old meme.
Is this a new technique by you A24 shill niggers? Pretending to be a victim so people have sympathy and watch your piece of dog shit fucking "movie"?
Stop making threads about this boring trash, you fucking marketing shills
I just got back form the theater. I thought this was very well made, I liked the artistic direction a lot.
I did also think it was predictable, but I wasn't disappointed in that too much because i wanted to see just how they would show each event.
I wasn't bothered by the run time because it was captivating to see just how things would happen.
The beginning was intense. At no time was I scared, but the imagery will probably pop into my mind before I go to bed tonight.
I'm a real person. Go back to /x/ you paranoid dumb ass god.
because i've watched a lot of horror movies and i know what to expect
>A24
DROPPED
Shill it is then.
that's funny, in my theater I was the only one laughing
bruh, short and slightly thicc is way better, get some taste my dude
I'm very confused about the 90 years thing Pele said, considering he also said he parents died in a fire like the end of the movie, did he mean
>90 years for all the celebrations they had, but not for the killing rituals themselves
>90 years was just a lie
>His parents didn't die in that fire
>90 years was measured using a different metric than what we use
And she was a bitch who killed her boyfriend instead of a complete stranger because he didn't pay enough attention to her and she caught him cheating on her in what was obviously some sort of ritual thing that if shed bothered to confront him would've quickly realized he was drugged. I wish they'd burned her alive in that stupid flower coat.
You don't even know how to argue.
I wouldn't be surprised if you were a bot.
No one forced him to do any of that.
You're probably trying to justify your own shitty actions.
wasn't he planning on breaking up with her before her sister killed her parents? or did i imagine that?
Pagan rituals whatchu know about that?
Probably lots, probably nothin.
when did she cheat?
Every 90 years they have a big feast.
Whenever people become older than 72, they kill themselves.
Every year, or solstice rather, they pick a may queen during what is basically their new year's festival - these three things overlap on occasion.
Dani happened to show up when all 3 took place.
yeah i was half expecting the black guy to at least go "mayn dis sum freekay white peepol shet!!"
mfw his leg
She didn't. She was completely fucking innocent until the very end when she clearly reached her limit.
That other user is a fucking idiot who thinks they're trolling so hard.
but to the cult in the movie, they put him in the bear and sacrificed him and the religious leader made a statement about casting all the wickedness into the deepest recesses? with that, the connection doesnt make sense?
There are only 3 brown people in the entire movie and they all end up dead.
A lot of white swedes outlive them.
So how is it anti-white exactly?
this. i haven't reflected on that suicide scene at all, honestly it wasn't that shocking, it was rather expected, i kind of thought it was funny in a way, like that old man fucking jack knifing it, why would you do that lol
but yeah, that shit with her parents and her all barfed up and dead in her room, fuuuuuuck.
also those long shots, that shit is better than any jump scare could be
>immediately going for a personal attack based on literally nothing
At least I'm flattered that you think I've ever been in a position to cheat.
yeah this was ambiguous. Peles parents dying in a fire doesnt necessarily mean it was the sacrifices tho. the may queen and feast obviously happened every year but the sacrifices probably every 90 and peles parents werent a sacrifice. he did say he became an orphan and found the cult after.
Christian was like 35. He should thank the swedes for saving him 3 embarrassing failed suicide attempts
Who else was hard as diamonds when the old bitch was thrusting Christians pelvis into that qt redhead
no way was he 35. close to 30, probably around 25-29.
No, his friends were trying to tell him to but he was reluctant.
Before her family dies, she's dealing with her sister being fucking nuts and that's a burden on him that he feels hes obligated to care about. But deep down he doesn't really care.
Kind of like how most people act when you tell them something bad is happening, like your mom has cancer. People will react like how they think they're supposed to react, which is sad, and attempting to care - but when they go home they don't give a fuck and they watch Netflix or whatever the fuck normies do.
I couldn't stop thinking of that dadrock song when they kept talking about the May Queen this and May Queen that.
I guess we don't know how often they burn people, or even if he were telling the truth at all since obviously he was full of shit and put up a facade of being a normal person for years.
SOMEONE CAMRIP IT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>35
>can't figure out what to do for his thesis
What the fuck is the point of being in college at that point?
>Also, when Christian is in the bear suit and they're about to light him up, why do the cult members tell him he's being banished to the darkness or whatever?
It's a scapegoat ritual. The bear is the metaphorical representation of the all the sins of the village.
Peter Pan syndrome
Torrent when
Yeah but Pele also said everyone is raised by everyone, and that everyone feels the same thing, so it doesn't necessarily mean that it was him who lost parents, just someone else in the cult.
Also that since everyone raises everyone, every adult is parent to every kid
>that Austin Powers namedrop
What did they mean by this?
I totally forgot about this
30s is the new 20s
The cult apparently didn't consider their kind to be fully functioning adults until 36
>camrip
get a job poorfags. you're doing yourself a disservice watching this KINO outside of a kinoplex
Haven't seen this but if atleast one of the women don't get raped by a sandnigger it's not an accurate portrayal of sweden
t one of the last remaining white Swedes
>the village elders outright grant you a sex partner at 15
Midsneedar
Im guessing this was made by a liberal Swede who wants people to hate tradition even more in favor of multiculturally accepted festivals
Honest question, what could that guy say to you that would make you think he isn't a shill?
I think the director is Jewish
I've stated I'm female but I guess that doesn't stop me from being a shill.
I wish I was getting paid for this and not just sick in bed and shitpoastin.
Need Dani thigh pics asap
I prefer good genes
Wasn't in the screenplay. Instead it was a movie about the love potion that they actually saw, and also during that time where Christian prepared the cake for Dani's birthday
She kissed the Swedish guy
Mark was so fucking annoying. Everyone who was annoying died so it was a good ending.
I guess that's how they came to Austin Powers, given the whole liquid mojo thing.
T. Can't handle the thickness
I like thicc asians
I don’t want thiccness in a woman because it turns into clinical obesity at 28 years old it’s my right to say no
>bruh my dude
Get out normie
She clearly didn't initiate that
He was a shitty boyfriend and a douche before cheating on her though. So I get people seeing her smile at the end as a genuine one and not just her being manipulated. Thematically the story is about a bad relationship so it makes more sense that in her head she got a good end by burning away a toxic relationship and being embraced by a family.
For some reason, the thing that stuck with me the most was the blood eagle.