This is a kind of movie that I really think holly shit this is so colorful so shining so bright and show so much happiness, is not that I don´t like happy movies but this movie is more than that this is a horror movie so what we see will turned into a ¨nightmare¨, also the director Ari Aster is a good reason to watch this movie, he is so unexpected and the twist that come in his movies are always a good surprise and at the end that was happen in this movie, is not that I love the movie but I enjoyed that Aster gave here. The movie present it main character, Dani a woman that is living a grief because she just lost her mon, dad and sister and now is by her own in this shitty world, she has a boyfriend who has decided to end the relationship with her but when he knows about the tragic news he couldn´t left her instead Dani joint to a trip with her boyfriend and their friends to Sweden for a sunny festival but soon they will realized that nothing is what it seems all those flowers, smiling faces, white clothes just hide a cult with tragical rituals and creepy endings.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8772262/
- Platform: Amazon Prime Video
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Dani is the center of all this story she is in pain because now she has no one, talking about family, that is with her, she feels that her only support is her boyfriend Christian a man that want to broke to her but decided that wasn´t the right moment instead of stay with her he plan to go to a festival with his friends Josh the thesis guy, Mark the clown, Pelle the friend who connect all of them to the festival in Sweden that they want to go, Dani is desperate for companion and decided to go with them. At the moment they arrived to the village you can feel that everything was so wrong, so many colors, flower, sun, white and happiness, obviously they look more like a cult instead of a pacific group of people and you realized that everything is toast her at the moment that appear in scene a ritual of the oldy people jumping from a cliff to end their life, that was the point of break, in that moment they should run but now people is stupid and Dani with her boyfriend and his friends decided to stay, that was the worst decision of their life's.
At the moment of the story I felt that I was wasting my time watching this movie but the performances play an important part on this movie starting with Florence Pugh playing Dani, you can feel her pain, her dependency with her boyfriend because she feels he is everything in her life, Jack Reynor is Dani´s boyfriend his performance really made you bad, the way how he shows that he doesn´t love Dani anymore and he complete that in a scene where he cheated on her with a woman of the village he couldn´t say no to her, he was selected to complete a ritual procreating a child with that woman and he succeed on it poor Dani. Will Poulter was Mark, Christian friend he didn´t last too much in screen but what he did was good, the clown of the team who dies for pee a special tree in the village, dumbest way to die. William Jackson was Josh the nerdy of the group, I like this guy because he went to the village only for his investigation and die for it, hahaha, better way to die.
The true is the the men of this story are not the center of it the only principal her is Dani that after she start feeling that want to leave that place, everything start changing, because the villager show her that they understand her pain, her sorrow, he grief, show her that they can be part of her feelings as an only individual. This movie shows that the villager are like one big cell and that knowledge made Dani change her mind to the point that she didn´t realized that some of her friends are no longer in the village, she didn´t care about that anymore, she became her May Queen in a contest and she accepted it. All the women of the village dress her with a lot of flowers and celebrated with her that she won, she forgets about her boyfriend too. At this point of the movie one again it let you that Dani is a dependent person and now that she is accepted in this place she can feel that she is back with her family again that need nothing more. Something that really called my attention is the effects when they are high instead of showing crazy scenes, you can see the best psychedelic on screen vibes not goofy rainbow stuff more like textures on bark pulsing, flowers opening like lungs, faces warping just a bit, it sells the idea that Dani and the others are never fully grounded.
This movie is not for everyone, is in the category of horror but more as a dramatic horror, the cinematography of this movie is good, beautiful scenes, those mountains in Sweden show that they are like in magical place but as a story the other side is so dark. I do believe that people that is living a grief, a lost in their life this movie will affect them more and why? Shows the reality how people can be manipulated by others when you are in the deepest dark moment of your life and it shows in the movie in the scene where Dani has to decided her boyfriends life in another creepy ritual of this cult, that is the the new people that arrived in the village for the festival is sacrificed been burn and Dani was upset because her boyfriend cheated on her and she didn´t save him she let him die and the only think you see at the end is she smiling, at this moment you don´t know if she is finally become an evil person or just accepted the villagers as her new family, is a way of doesn´t feel alone anymore and with that change and killing her boyfriend she is no longer in pain. Midsommar is a movie that I understand but not recommend for everyone, is deep, is stupid is some kind, slow in other and the ends you know how it happy, why it happen but you can´t accept that it happen, that is a good movie for me yes it is so I let you to decided if you want to see, is phycological horror that somethings are more difficult to watch.
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