![]() Instead of replying with reassurance, Christian sourly eats a pie containing what looks to be a pubic hair and drinks from a glass containing a liquid that’s pointedly pinker than everyone else’s. A24ĭuring dinner, Dani tells Christian that fellow outsider Simon left his girlfriend, Connie, behind in the village (or that’s what they think - of course, the reality is something quite different), and then bitterly says that she thinks Christian would do that, too. ![]() That seems to shake something loose in Dani. Pelle tells her that he, too, lost his parents (“in a fire” - the details aren’t clear, but after watching the film, you might have a better sense of how that happened) and asks her if Christian feels like “home” to her, whether he “holds” her. In this section, Dani has been slowly becoming aware that she’s trying too hard to make excuses for Christian, who seems disconnected from her, forgetting her birthday and generally being inattentive to her emotional state. Mark is convinced that one of the Harga men, who’s glowering at him across the way, is going to kill him for pissing on the ancestral tree. Josh is mad at Christian for stealing - excuse me, collaborating on - his thesis idea. The outsiders, still reeling from watching the brutal deaths, are seated at the table with the others, and the novelty and beauty of the place has worn off. The second section begins when the Americans arrive in the village and lasts until shortly after the events at the Ättestupa, the high cliff where the elders throw themselves to their deaths. Midsommar is a brutish, nasty daylight nightmare from the director of Hereditary ![]() The mushrooms the group takes upon entering the field before the village nearly unhinge her, but she runs into the woods to hide their effect and is only found by the group after she falls asleep. Throughout this section, Dani is trying to put on a brave face she only lets out her guttural sobs in private bathrooms, with the doors closed. Then there’s the first section, which begins two weeks before the group - Christian, Mark, Dani, Josh, and Pelle - head to Sweden, and ends when they walk through the big wooden sunburst and into the idyllic village of the Harga. There’s the overture: everything that happens before the title cards appear, in the snowy undefined landscape, when Dani’s family dies and she is plunged into grief. You can split Midsommar into a few distinct sections. Midsommar is the story of Dani’s emotional journey Seriously: If you don’t want to be spoiled, abandon ship now. If you’re looking for a review of the film, with a few basic plot details but no major spoilers, then read this instead. I’ll presume you’ve seen the film already, which means that there are LOTS OF SPOILERS to come. So here’s a quick overview of Midsommar leading up to the ending, what happens at the end, and what it (probably) means, though there are plenty of alternate interpretations available. (Which seems, if you’ve seen Hereditary, to be Aster’s signature move.) However, whether you really lock into what’s happening at the end depends on how attentive you were to what happened earlier, particularly shifts in Dani’s mental and emotional state. “I keep telling people I want it to be confusing,” Aster told me when I spoke to him about it shortly before the film’s release.īut in truth, the events in most of the film’s 140-minute runtime are fairly easy to follow it’s in the ending where things get a little wild, grand, and possibly baffling. ![]() Midsommar, the new movie from Hereditary director Ari Aster, is not what you’d call a straightforward, lighthearted summer film.
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