Midsommar is essentially a horror film about a girl trying to get her boyfriend to listen to her in increasingly nightmarish circumstances
are frequently built to ignore them, to swat away fears with a tongue down the throat while the killer watches them from a cabin’s windows.builds on this tradition, because despite director Ari Aster’s violent remix of Sweden’s Midsummer celebrations, it’s essentially a film about a girl trying to get her boyfriend to listen to her in increasingly nightmarish circumstances.
Slowly the rich, creepy mythology of this town unfolds. At almost two-and-a-half hours, the film tediously reveals these detailed rituals, from dancing competitions to mating ceremonies, and a terrifying, ordained suicide that is the first stop on the “something’s up with this town” ride for the non-Swedes brought to visit .
With this tiny Swedish cult placing an emphasis on family and shared emotion , Aster draws such obvious parallels between Dani’s clinging desire for love and the rhythms of this overly familial community that it can feel like you’re being hammered over the head with them, despite the fact that these people domay weigh far too heavy with drawn-out scenes of this weird cult, but the moral of Aster’s story is far simpler: just listen to your girlfriend, dude.
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