I don’t know why you would ask that other than to cause trouble? It seems to me, (who has not seen the film and has no intention ever to), exactly like how somebody summarizing a film from memory would describe it.
Nope, my own summary.
In that case, maybe you should do it on a regular basis, because it was very concise and very accurate.
I don’t think a synopsis can really convey all that’s going on, at least for me, in Midsommer.
There is some great character detail in there. I’ve read several reviews. Concerning Dani, I thought she was needy and insecure, that’s really her character, very unattractive from the start, even before the tragedy. And in the movie she finds the acceptance and closeness and warmth she needs in the “community” To me, that’s what her smile at the end was all about. It wasn’t vengeful, it was joyous. And she was joyous and carefree dancing and as the May Queen. And perhaps her choice of her boyfriend to wear the bear-suit was just her way of leaving her old life behind.
And then the ritualistic suicides by the elderly people was thought-provoking. I’ve often wondered the same thing. Wouldn’t it be better to choose when to leave than to die one day in a nursing home?
Plus the creepy folk picture stories that are really taken from their customs.
Anyway, there’s a lot of good stuff in Midsommer. I’ll be thinking of it for years to come. And I’ll probably see it again.
Thumbs up! (except screams can’t be burned).
I have seen both movies(saw Midsommar yesterday).
Both defy plot descriptions because they are so well made, any plot description won’t really do them justice. I thought Hereditary was the scariest and most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen(I almost ran out of the room…well…not really, but it occurred to me). Midsommar was less intense, but just a great movie that is much more than its plot description.
Both depressing(Hereditary especially). Both great movies, though.
Midsommar just premiered on cable, so may be seen by many who didn’t see it in theaters or on disc.
The elder-suicide “tradition” (Ättestupa) shown in the movie is now considered to have been a myth created by Icelanders who disliked/resented the Swedish and wanted to sell the idea that Swedish people were ruthless and cruel.*
I remain a big admirer of Ari Aster’s previous film Hereditary, which I see as a brilliant portrait of the deteriorating mind of a person suffering from schizophrenia. (I’m aware both that many prefer to think of the movie as a story of supernatural horror, and that Aster hasn’t thrown any cold water on that theory.)
But I was disappointed by Midsommar. As many have noted, it has a huge debt to The Wicker Man and other similar tales of Scary Rural People. For my money it doesn’t represent any particular advance on the themes found in those earlier films. I guess it will please those who like to see females depicted as being vindictive. And, I’ll grant, I did like the thumb-in-the-eye it offers to ‘Northern European’ cultural chauvinists: so this is the superior race, eh? What do they produce, other than big-ol’ wooden mallets???
I will admit that I’m not really a fan of what appears to be an obsession of Aster’s with depicting the desecration of dead human bodies. I gather there are many who find this phenomenon/hobby/whatever compelling, but I’m not one of them.
Still: a serious work deserving a view by anyone who respects serious works. It’s available on Showtime and on demand, in coming weeks.
Also, wikipedia:
Ättestupa - Wikipedia(Scandinavian%20for%20’kin%2F,were%20thrown%2C%20to%20their%20deaths.