![]() Christian’s friends are all frustrated except for Pelle, who tells Dani he is glad she is going but ends up triggering a panic attack in Dani after revealing that his entire family also died. He apathetically invites her, confident that she won’t go due to her massive recent trauma, but she does agree to travel with them. Things become more emotionally strained when Dani finds out that Christian and his friends are traveling to Sweden to celebrate the midsummer festival. Despite Dani being an emotional wreck and struggling with her grief, Christian cannot be the supportive boyfriend Dani needs because he is more bothered by the fact that he couldn’t break up with her now. Unfortunately, the double murder-suicide of Dani’s entire family throws a wrench into Christian’s plans to break up with Dani. Christian’s friends, Josh (William Jackson Harper) and Mark (Will Poulter), encourage him to end the relationship before Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren) takes them on a trip to his ancestral commune in rural Hälsingland, Sweden. Dani struggles with her outpour of emotions to build a stronger relationship with Christian, while he is clearly checked out and consistently emotionally unavailable to Dani.ĭani is aware of the distance growing between them, and feels like an emotional burden, telling her nameless friend over the phone that she is afraid that she is pushing him away, but her friend reminds her that a boyfriend is supposed to be supportive, and Christian is just a dick. The opening scenes show us the two very different perspectives that American couple Dani and Christian (Jack Reynor) have of their relationship. Despite the heightened anxiety, the film is intriguing to watch, and it's always fun to discover the little ways the visual storytelling leads you through the story. Midsommar is distributing and difficult to watch since everyone is minutes away from a bad trip. The A24 daylight horror Midsommar, Ari Aster’s follow-up to his directorial debut Hereditary , took the world by storm, helping revive the folk horror genre while scaring us from stepping into the woods at any time of the day.Īlthough Aster describes the horror film as “a breakup movie dressed in the clothes of a folk horror film” to Vulture, the film’s meaning is purposefully complex, creating conversations about what the film is trying to tell us about isolating grief and rebirth. Midsommar does this through the blinding daylight sequences that do not hide the horrors of this small Swedish community in an ancestral commune in the woods. There is nothing more satisfying to me than a horror story that manipulates the protagonist into a contributing villain. Midsommar is a film that can make you feel liberated and manipulated, but why? Let's break down the ending to explain this bizarre, eerie feeling. ![]()
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