WHAT IS HAPPENING?!? | Midsommar Reaction & Review | A24

[@kellifranklin9872]

No, they definitely don’t let her go. She’s been brainwashed into their cult now. Pelle kissing her made me realize that he intended to bring her into that community from the get go. They need outside people to procreate and Dani was easy to turn.

[@sVieira151]

Considering this point, I do find the taping on Dani's sisters CO tube quite suspicious...

[@Roseforthethorns]

@@sVieira151her family is in like the midwest, nowhere near where Dani and the others are

[@sVieira151]

@@Roseforthethorns oh, I didn't catch that Dani lived far away from her family in the US. I'll have to rewatch cause I missed that

[@Roseforthethorns]

@@sVieira151 I remember seeing the location in the script, dunno if the film is as clear in specifying it

[@moonlily1]

@@sVieira151 It isn't. Ari Aster answered that fan theory and stated no, the murder/suicide was not orchestrated or planned. If you think about it, it's incredibly far fetched that a cult on the other side of the world would target a random person that one of them is vaguely acquainted with and had to anticipate that every decision that every person would make in order for something else to happen a year later.

[@dlweiss]

Oh, they don’t let her go; she’s one of them now. She has no family, no friends, and feels like she has nothing to go back home to. That smile she gives in the final shot means she’s officially lost her mind, I think. Also, I think “Silent Hill” actually IS the barbed-wire monster movie she’s describing in the end discussion! The desert mutant people are in “The Hills Have Eyes”. 😁

[@ClarusPolaris]

Yup. That's absolutely it I confused my hills 🤣🤣

[@dlweiss]

@@ClarusPolaris Now we just need "Haunting of Hill House" in the mix to complete the set! 😂

[@toddhill7483]

I believe that Dani actually WANTED to stay at that point.

[@hideshiseyes2804]

@@toddhill7483 Yeah she definitely wanted to stay, that's the tragedy.

[@JADTO]

Hell Raiser

[@flibber123]

To me, the disturbing aspects are what's implied more that what's shown. For instance, both Christian and Dani are drugged. Neither of them is in control of what they're doing. So Christian is sexually assaulted and Dani is manipulated into sentencing him to death and she is forced to watch him burn. She is also now apparently a brainwashed member of the cult. No one knows where she is, no one will go looking for her. She is in a foreign country, in the middle of nowhere. All this, after losing her family in a murder/suicide. That's disturbing stuff to me.

[@teddyj5187]

But she's happy

[@juliasmith960]

I can't wait for the sequel: "I Know What You Did Last Sommar"

[@miranda4073]

28:50 LMAO stage manager walkthrough of the Midsommar village is the funniest mental image. 'This is the old people death cliff, make sure you watch your step, folks, we've glow-taped the edge'

[@KimChilds75]

This is one of those movies where you don't "find the twist", the twist finds you... several times.

[@toddhill7483]

You have to admit. The elderly woman displayed beautiful form on her "final dive". (Unlike her male counterpart)

[@DarthKay093]

As a Swedish person I have a love/hate relationship towards this movie since it takes one of the more wholesome traditions and twists it

[@specificsoup]

The hope is that no one sees this and thinks it’s a real thing that happens in Sweden! 😅

[@mikefish1124]

I think most of us (us being non-swedish folks) get that this is fiction. No worries

[@Quzga]

Yeah I have so many photos of me as a kid with flowers and midsummer poles that now just makes it look sinister lmao. It's many children's favorite holiday. Men det är kul att se en skräckfilm utspela sig i Sverige! Och att dom faktiskt använde svenska skådespelare

[@specificsoup]

@@mikefish1124 plus it’s obviously a small community within Sweden that is shown to be very isolated (from “regular society”)

[@DarthKay093]

@@Quzga ja det förvånade mig

[@Merecir]

Come to Sweden at Midsommar, it will be a lovely time. No worries about the special traditions, they only happen every 90 or 9 years. 😀

[@Lukdaman]

Sure

[@adammartray4403]

I'm pretty sure the movie Clarus thinks is "Silent Hill" is actually "The hills Have Eyes" and the movie with the spiky barb monster is actually "Silent Hill."

[@JudeauChop]

Was gonna say the same thing :)

[@kaotikguy]

I'm still confused about the barbed wire tentacles but You are correct. I was like, breast feeding on a woman? That is definitely not silent hill. Lol

[@adammartray4403]

@@kaotikguy there’s plenty of razor wire at the end of Silent Hill

[@kaotikguy]

Maybe it's just been a while since I've seen it. 🤷‍♂️

[@BellaTech_Lestrange]

It's definitely Silent Hill

[@tritiumH3]

"They're getting sacrificed by the gaslighting drug cult! But check out their decorative art!"

[@sVieira151]

Speaking of the love potion, i see you noticed that Christians drink was a different colour but didnt piece together why 🥲

[@sparafucile9]

Hahaha I missed it the first time too and was informed by my niece who couldn’t believe I didn’t get it.😂

[@kayleeholland3808]

Okay my mind was just blown. He’s drinking her blood 🥲

[@sVieira151]

@@kayleeholland3808 unfortunately he is 🤭

[@KlooKloo]

The sympathetic screaming is one of the scariest scenes i've ever seen

[@paulchavez3039]

It reminded me of acting school exercises 😂

[@AlessaParker]

as someone who's quite desensitized to horror stuff, the most uncomfortable bit about this film to me was Dani and Christian's scenes 😅

[@plectrumura]

Moral of the story is don’t study anthropology. Because, as archer already pointed out “I’m pretty sure somebody already named all the spiders.”

[@onlyu2high]

As a Swedish person, this is how midsommar is.

[@Quzga]

Fattas bara sill och snaps

[@onlyu2high]

@@Quzga Jomenvisst, jag tror nog att dom åt sill och snaps fick dom också, snapsvisor saknas dock.

[@Ferdawoon]

"This looks like Canada!" S-Canada-navia?

[@perjus]

Actually the film was shot in Hungary.

[@wjhull]

I know I'm a bit late, but it's worth saying Nerdy got it right off the bat: they're going to burning man.

[@adammartray4403]

While I'm looking forward to the regular content hopefully returning soon, I'm cool if Nerdy and Clarus just watch A24 movies for a while.

[@Hey_Jamie]

Hereditary! Hereditary! Hereditary!

[@kazehazeee]

the vvitch, talk to me

[@TheBearAspirin]

Dani wasn't brainwashed and easily turned as other commenters have thought. She was already in a mental state of accepting being abused and taken advantage of long before she entered the cult. She was not a final girl. She was utterly destroyed by the ending.

[@popejaimie]

The actor who plays Christian also plays the protagonist of the show Strange Angel, which is basically a biopic of rocket scientist and Thelemite (Aleister Crowley's... cult?) Jack Parsons, founder of nasa's jet propulsion laboratory. Show got cancelled before it got to the part of his life where he made friends with L Ron Hubbard and they did a sex ritual in the desert for a month with actress Marjorie Cameron to birth the antichrist, and then L Ron Hubbard stole all Jack's money and his wife and ran away on a boat, but still a really weird and good show that the actor is great in.

[@MrGorn25]

This has to be one of the most disturbing movie ever, just the whole time I had a sense of unease.

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

At 32:24 - While you might want to have given up earlier, where would you have expected them to go? And how would they have gotten there? The travelers are HUNDREDS of miles from the rest of civilization, and they were disoriented and have been drugged out since they got there. HOW would they have gotten away should they have chose to do so?

[@moonlily1]

I've been to Sweden and lived to tell the tale. I saw no caged bears or pube pies or public suicides. I even went walking to the seaside by myself after dark, and didn't get sexually assaulted or blood eagled. In fact, people don't care to look you in the eye, let alone go to all the trouble it's going to take to indoctrinate you into a cult. That being said, it's very nice, very organized and clean, if you'd like to go, you should go. However, it's Switzerland that is known for chocolate, not Sweden.

[@Amiamigg]

Tbf, our chocolate is very very good compared to north americas, but we're not known for it, no //a swede :D

[@moonlily1]

@@Amiamigg I've had it. While I was in Sweden I bought some random chocolates, some chocolate liquers, a Geisha, and something else. I also had a Marabou bar. How superior it is to American chocolate depends on the brand. By and large, better than Nestle or Hershey, but we have other brands that are better than them. Most of the food I had in Sweden was pretty good, though I didn't think the pizza had enough garlic.

[@Amiamigg]

@@moonlily1 ye im sure you have more premium stuff than the general stuff, but everything from the us that ive tried tastes chemically, just off. Marabou is our equivalent to hersheys and the like, so the average quality is clearly better. But I think that goes for most of the EU tbf.

[@moonlily1]

@@Amiamigg Oh, that's fair, I'm not going to try to pretend that our cheaper candy is excellent. It's not. My boyfriend described Swedish food in general as tasting 'cleaner' than American food, even something cheap like the Billy's Pan Pizza. I liked most of what I ate, in fact the only thing I didn't like were the Wasa crispbreads, too dry and hard. I only ate them because I didn't know what else to put the Kalle's on.

[@Amiamigg]

@@moonlily1 Oh my poor soul, don't put kalles alone on the crispbread haha :/ Crispbread is dry, yeah, gotta put butter, cheese and cucumber slices on that thing, or smoked ham. Something to counter the dryness. Put Kalles on soft breads, preferably toast, with some sliced hardboiled eggs, yummy. But yeah, my american friend who visited over the summer said the same. And it makes sense, we know for a fact that there are things in food in the U.S that are illegal here, and that U.S bread is deemed CAKE in the EU because it has so much sugar (like lots of other cheap foods do over there). IT's a common experience for U.S ex-pats that they lost weight by eating the same stuff in europe because it was just less tampered with, and had less sugar. Now, our cuisine is by no means the most exciting in the world, and we do eat a LOT of sweets rather than savory stuff in sweden compared to other countries, so we're CLEARLY not perfect. Just put less shit in our stuff, so it tastes good generally, but often a little bland xD

[@dragontears]

As an cult survivor (though granted, not a murderous one) that was born and raised in one the insular nature and love bombing bs really hit for me. As did the whole taking a really weird culture for granted - tho again, not murder and period blood love potions, but still. Lol

[@violentlycreamy]

I think the couch was super indicative of the dynamic of their relationship.

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

At 56:33 - flounder vs. founder... Floundering means being as unstable like a flopping fish. Foundering means stumbling and making missteps.

[@levischorpioen]

I hope that one day, we can start calling men who were drugged and forced to have sex with another person rape victims. Not assaulted. Raped.

[@Hey_Jamie]

Literally what is stopping you

[@levischorpioen]

@@Hey_Jamie Me? Nothing. Society? A lot, evidently.

[@daphneglasurus7886]

My first watch through, I hated Christian so much that I decided he would’ve gone through with the ritual no matter what. But after many rewatches I completely agree. He was raped. He wouldn’t have done it if he wasn’t drugged. The actor’s face acting made that apparent if you watched him without the perspective of hating him so much you’re ready to blame him for everything.

[@Korynith]

Videos get demonetized when you use the word "rape", which is why you will see a lot of channels use other words in place of it.

[@levischorpioen]

@@Korynith Then don’t monetize them. You can miss a few bucks if it helps people feel more included and you want to aid in making real societal progress.

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

At 41:55 - When Ari Aster made this movie, some of what he used was Norse mythology, some of it was Viking mythology, and some of it was pure imagination. It is supposed to feel like a culture that was around for hundreds of years. The fact that you feel like it "should have its own bible" means he did a good job, as did the actors.

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

At 5:37 - It's not the next day - it's six months later. Dani isn't handling her mourning well, but Christian isn't as supportive as he could be.

[@daphneglasurus7886]

Seeing the audience reaction in the theaters was addicting, I went 3 times 😂

[@charleshartley9597]

Definitely supposed to be "foundering" to describe their relationship. Signed, An Anthropology Ph.D.

[@brianschoner3350]

In this case, sinking. Like a ship that founders in rough seas.

[@teddyj5187]

Simon was tired of Connie wearing courdoroys the whole trip is what I would have said.

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

At 25:27 - The boyfriend doesn't seem smart enough to write a thesis. While it seems to be the case, the four guys - Christian, Josh, Mark, and Pelle - are sociology grad students. Josh explained earlier on in the movie that he was doing his PhD thesis on European midsummer cultures and rituals. Josh also told Christian that he was lazy, and distracted from thinking about his own PhD thesis. It's only NOW that Christian decided to do his thesis on the Harga. But because Josh is black and the Harga community has been dismissive of him, the Harga have given Christian "first dibs" on permission to write about them.

[@hideshiseyes2804]

Midsommar is... *one of* my favourite movies of the last few years! If that doesn't scare you away, my thoughts on the film for what they're worth: It's a political film. Dani is obviously traumatised by what happened to her family, and she needs support. In the life she has she doesn't have a real support network. She has a useless boyfriend and the only other people in her life who we see are his friends, who are also jerks. It's a picture of the hyper-individualistic world of modern American life under capitalism. The three American men represent different pathologies of this life: inability to commit and form meaningful relationships, brainless childish hedonism, and ruthless careerist ambition. So she craves community, the feeling of "being held" as Pele puts it. She seems to find that in the Horga. They are a tight-knit community who look out for each other and share in each other's pain. They have everything Americans lack. The problem is they are also a fascistic death cult. The racism angle is absolutely important - they choose only blonde, white outsiders to breed with, and as you point out they kill the non-white people first. They represent Nazi-style fascism. When people get attracted to that ideology it's often because they think modern life has become disconnected and overly individualistic. They turn to a version of community that is entirely about the ingroup and violent towards outsiders because, evil and fucked up as it is, it seems to offer them something. This film is both a critique of the alienated form of life under capitalism, and a warning about the kind of trouble you can get into in searching for an alternative. No idea if that's what Ari Aster had in mind, but that's what I take from it (aside from just being a great horror film).

[@isoldemaisol3709]

This is a fantastic reading of this movie I'm surprised I haven't heard before!

[@specificsoup]

Thank you. This made me appreciate the movie a little bit more. Even if not intended, I can “get” the characters better if I think of them as archetypes. My one big problem with midsommar has always been that Christian and his friends are jerks to such a comical degree, that no one really reacts the way you would if you knew someone whose whole family was killed in one go. Like they act like her grandma died or something. It’s weird. (I know it’s months after the fact, but still) if they’re there to stand in for certain types of American men, as a political critique, I like that a litleee better.

[@BusterCherry1]

LoL Here's a legitimate critique of the film: -Men must submit to the emotional needs of women at any given moment -Traditional European values are archaic and barbaric -Men are disposable -Women are "Queens", and not submitting to that may lead to a death sentence if one is male

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

At 9:47 - What did the upside-down sign say? It said "Welcome to Helsingland," and then it said something about stopping immigration. But it was a blink and you'll miss it, especially if you don't know the language.

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

At 49:37 - They did not just let her go. She has no one. Her family is dead, and Christian was all she had left. The Harga lady said that they were her new family. Dani is completely at their mercy. I am terrified for her.

[@meghanmonroe]

Founder is another word for a ship sinking.

[@specificsoup]

Funny story about my first time watching Midsommar: all the weird sex things in the cult didn’t surprise me as much as I … should have been surprised? Long story but … years ago, a friend showed me a video by Marina Abramovic called Balkan Erotic Epic. It was in full, on KZbin uncensored (back in the Wild West of KZbin). it would get taken down and then someone would just upload it again. Abramovic is a performance artist from Serbia and I think the video is supposed to be about some old fashioned rituals and superstitions from the Balkan region, though I don’t know if all of them are real. The video features a bit about a love potion where a woman puts a fish in her v****na overnight and then takes it out and puts it in some sort of broth or tea to give to her man to ensure that he stays in love with her and devoted to her forever. In another bit, a man … drills a hole in a bridge before his wedding and uh, has his way with it and it’s supposed to be good luck to his marriage? There’s a lot of naked people in groups doing strange performances, also humping the ground at one point in a very green field. And while there was nothing like the group sex in Midsommar, it just overall has a similar … vibe? to the point that I’m convinced Ari Aster had seen Balkan Erotic Epic.

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

At 14:28 - "Make everyone blonde..." They are supposed to be in Sweden. It's part of the native scene. (They filmed in Romania, but that's not the point...)

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

At 16:16 - While Dani and Christian were together for four years and two weeks, Christian has been thinking about breaking it off for about a year. So... Yeah, that's not a healthy relationship.

[@Dimetropteryx]

You know who the boyfriend reminds me of. A slightly too mellow Jesse Pinkman. Also his "This is fine." face in the burning hut is just priceless.

[@duaneswab3420]

When I went to the theater to see this film, I didn't know it would be a horror film. It reminded me very much of The Wicker Man, but exquisitely crafted, written and directed.

[@evandmarlow]

I get heavy original Wicker Man vibes just because it is also folk horror, Hereditary also gives me Rosemary's Baby vibes at points.

[@stephen-macdonald]

I'm pretty sure it's intended to be an homage. I don't know for sure though. There are enough parallels or things that seem like references to sell me on the idea. There's even the fact we have a major character wearing a bear and in the lackluster remake of Wicker Man we have Nic Cage wearing a bear suit.

[@ravenward626]

Paying people fairly is counter productive to short - midterm profits. Long term is less of an issue if you can move your assets around and the markets don't change too quickly to react. That's why you need unions, not everyone who owns the businesses have a vested interest in paying people more to compensate for inflation and cost of living increases. That and individuals rarely have the bargaining power to bring anyone to the table.

[@DeathBeforeComicSans]

English nerd here! Founder = (of a plan or undertaking) to fail or break down, typically as a result of a particular problem or setback,

[@andre1999o]

I really love this movie, even though, I must say, I didn't really find it scary. It's definitely disturbing, though, and fascinating at the same time. Not like Hereditary, which I found really scary and nightmare-inducing.

[@superflywash08]

As someone who saw this movie in theaters with my father and stepmother, can confirm extremely uncomfortable. My dad picks this movie not knowing what it was about. Lesson learned

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

At 13:50 - ...because the children have arrived after doing drugs in the woods... Do you realize that, after a four-hour drive and a drugged-out session before going through the woods, the band of visitors have no useful references of location other than "we're here"?

[@KimForsberg]

Sweden, exporting the ättestupa as a viable alternative to solve the state pension fund issue. Welcome to Misdommar! (no, it's not a factual retelling of typical midsommar festivities 😆)

[@teddyj5187]

We are having our special ceremony this midsommar it only happens every 86 years. No bears this year we have a kangaroo. Be super stoked if you guys can come.

[@georgemckay7795]

"It's like Burning Man." Very apropos

[@TPJN777]

The first film that gave me an anxiety attack in a cinema. Brilliant film

[@Damiana_Dimock]

Props for calling it on Simon. And W for the editor. Silent Hill or The Hills Have Eyes? Love good Folk Horror. If y’all have not seen The Wicker Man (1974,) ya must.

[@DrowningKraken]

Midsommar gives me strong Wicker man vibes from what I remember of it.

[@kazehazeee]

I watched Midsommar first then The Wicker Man, but Wicker Man giving me so much anxiety and disturbing vibes more

[@Scallycowell]

Christian is a trash boyfriend, but I do feel a bit bad for him in the beginning because he wanted out of the relationship, but then her entire family was killed and there’s no way he could leave her then. He naturally shows that he’s a total scumbag by the end, though.

[@forex_shark6042]

I slept in a room with this many people or maybe more and more tightly packed together on a mountain climbing trip. It was the basecamp cabin before the peak and it was very hard to sleep.

[@MZ-bl6wg]

Saw this in theaters , the orchestra in the final scene and the March to the cliff was so loud and beautiful! Every time I see this I find more Easter eggs, you guys missed a lot you should see a missed Easter eggs video on your own there’s SO much! Did you see the MASSIVE little sister in the trees with the thing taped to her mouth , it’s in the background , there’s a ton of those things, very much like Hereditary, majority of reactors missed SO much in all of these, as did I. This movie and hereditary getter better every watch.

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

At 54:08 - I'm not sure why you haven't picked up the cult vibe, and how easily Dani was taken in. While Ari Aster said that he intended to make the "ultimate break-up movie," it is watching how the audience feels persuaded to sympathize with the Harga, despite how messed up their society is.

[@maxon1712]

there is an ethnic aspect of no poc characters were approved to mate while chris and will poulters characters were

[@samuelreyes1689]

There’s this cult documentary that analyzes cult scenes and they used some clips including the congregation crying with Dany and the women, it almost removes her autonomy and her pain, and it makes it seem like they share it with her, but it’s to deceive and to make her feel as if she’s a part of them to ease the transition. Like when ppl all sing together at a concert, when it’s over you feel like you were part of something greater. Also the way they are crying starts to sound like a chant, it can become rhythmic and even induce a trance. 👀

[@cWjkL8ysxOkrH66]

isn't Switzerland known for their good chocolate?

[@thesimpleshepherd7253]

Have y’all reacted to “ Berserk “old school version 1990s . it’s very dark and fued up at the end tho . Its a quick show and one of the first ever dark fantasy Animes ever created!love your videos and hope you keep kicking ass !

[@Ferdawoon]

@Clarus wanting to go to Sweden? Go in July/August. Summer still going on, lakes usually heated up from a warm summer, flowers and trees are in bloom and people are on vacation or just back home from one and relaxed. Longer evenings that, if weather permits, are great for a BBQ. Midsummer is usually at end of June and it's a family tradition time so it's Midsummer and Christmas when everything is closed. Fortunately you will probably not be invited to one of these Midsommar-cult celebrations xD

[@MontroseChloe]

This is my favorite Horror movie ever. I have seen it at least 10 times. The ending scene lives in my head rent free forever. The smile at the end makes my heart warm. I wrote this before you comment about it being someone's favorite movie. BTW. - no cap... This is the perfect date movie. Put a bear skin blanket down and make meat pies and sangria and place flower petals leading from the tv to the bedroom. - BEST Date night EVER!

[@whydoihavesubs6644]

how is THIS your favorite horror movie? It really isn't even a horror movie, but I'm still curious why it's your favorite?

[@mikenelson3632]

Try the wicker man same type of folk horror genre way better and also featuring the late great Christopher Lee. Do not watch the trash remake

[@MontroseChloe]

@@mikenelson3632 The Nic Cage film is the BEST version! if you watch ANY watch that one!

[@SyntheticChronicles]

Not sure if someone said this already, but I think that they purposely didn't tell the "visitors" of their customs so that they would feel justified in sacrificing them!

[@Saphthings]

I don't think a place needs to say, "Don't pee outside in our property" lol... I would never go into some community and pee behind their tepee or something xD

[@BeRadMH]

Lol, I think you got The Hills Have Eyes mixed up with Silent Hill (which is the "barbed wire monster" one).

[@ValentineOkarra]

Totally, haha

[@mndrew1]

"Death is lighter than a feather" -- **SPLAT** "usually".

[@Kai81194]

Other than the mushrooms and the messed up stuff, it's fairly accurate to the swedish holiday midsommar with the flower pole, dancing, aesthetic & flowercrowns. I can also see how the pubic hair ritual thing might be loosely inspired by a real tradition where young girls would pick 7 flowers, jump over 7 fences, and then put the flowers under their pillow on the night towards midsummer and sleep on them, and they would supposedly dream about their soul mate. The old people jumping off the cliff is debated if it actually used to be a thing that happened in sweden, but while no real evidence exists, there are tales about it. (So I'm actually from the region that this is meant to take place in) The story about the devil coming to make the youth dance to death is a real swedish folktale that we tell kids about. It supposedly happened in Hårga and sometimes parents will take their kids to the hill in question that the dancing supposedly took place at to show them the circle "left behind" after the young adults of the village dancing til they died. I forget a lot of people probably don't realise in the movie midsommar, the "pants license" Pelle is referring to is something that happens at age 15. The ginger chick they have fucked in the barn is literally 15. (Real thing btw, although it's an expression in swedish rather than an actual liscense, but it means they're of the age of consent. And yes it's fucked up that it's 15 here, not gonn argue that in the slightest.)

[@SamM_Scot]

You really need to watch the massively influential 70s original Wicker Man movie that gave birth to the term folk horror. It's far better than Midsommer in many ways in my opinion from the investigation of missing girl to the christianity vs pagan aspect. It's the cult classic that Midsommer kinda copied :-)

[@misterkite]

Right? This is basically a college student version of it. I think too many people think of the Nick Cage remake which shouldn't exist.

[@BellaTech_Lestrange]

46:43 pocket sand

[@kristinaschlegel2680]

I didn’t realize it before, but @ 8:57 there’s the tell!

[@evacombs9720]

This is based sort of on Scandinavian and (maybe?) Celtic "paganism" - the old, old, kind, but a lot is also the invention of the movie. For example, they mention the all-father (the god Odin) near the beginning at the commune, and May Poles are also well known as fertility symbols throughout Celtic and (maybe?) Scandinavian cultures, etc. But this community is definitely the invention of the movie. What helped me going through it the first time was my knowledge of the Celtic holiday, Beltane (on May 1st, the one with the May Pole and the May Queen, as well as many fertility rights, blessing of crops, etc.), but as this is in Scandinavia, maybe they celebrate this on the summer solstice because of the different climate and because the crops are sewn later??

[@its_k18]

Clarus looks kind of like Anya Taylor Joy (especially in The Menu when she had red hair) So pretty! 🩷 I just found your guys channel and love it so far

[@helpsssls]

omgg has anyone told you you look so similar to anya taylor joy

[@bradstafford1401]

Clarue, you were right when you mentioned Silent Hill.

[@eddietucker7005]

There is no way I am wasting my precious time left on this here earth watching this intelligent sucking movie again. What is scary about dancing around a May Pole, drinking mushroom tea and belching into each other’s face? The only real things about this movie is that you REALLY DO need to check your food before taking a bite and you don’t have to worry about Social Security and retirement.

[@enkilqc]

With my mom and her sister, watching Wolf of Wall street opening where he sniff coke out of a girl butt was great.....🙃

[@toddhill7483]

A rare and precious moment of family bonding.

[@gr_pillar]

​@@toddhill7483 Sweet home Alabama intensifies

[@juanitaschlink2028]

I'll see you, and rase you 'Requem for a dream' at the cinema, I was like, 19, just me and my father......the ass to ass Sean at the end....🙄🤢🙃

[@evandmarlow]

On wanting to watch this movie on substances, I watched this in the theater for the first time on acid. It was a time.

[@AndyLuu72]

Love your review of the Wheel of Time S1 and your book club! I'm so sad that we don't get to see your reactions to S2. I hope the Actors' strike will be over soon and they get what they asked for because they truly deserve it!!! Then I can see your WOT season reactions again.

[@mariajosetorresp]

Oh god i absolutely adore this movie, ive watched it so many times and shown it to so many people, i dont expect a lot of the responses to it

[@somthingbrutal]

a much better remake of The Wicker Man than the official one

[@mikenelson3632]

But still not as good as the 1973 wicker man

[@theCommentDevil]

The very first sound out of nerdy in the intro describes this movie perfectly 😂

[@BeRadMH]

Dani found a family.

[@KimOfDrac]

Less than 2 months remaining until Midsummer now😊 you're all welcome here🇸🇪🤫

[@onlyu2high]

Its probably Snaps 20:15

[@laspilly]

She's gonna co-mother Christian's child from now on.

[@Damiana_Dimock]

Now, (like with Hereditary,) you can rewatch it and pay attention to the background. I highly recommend y’all checkout one of my Top 4 on LetterBoxD, Ravenous (1999.) Also, sticking with A24, have y’all watched The Green Knight (2021,) Green Room (2016,) or Under The Skin (2014?) 🙏🏼☺️

[@IVNHYPRFNK]

Please do Talk To Me!

[@thgeremilrivera-thorsen9556]

"It's Burning Man!" Oh, you have no idea...

[@jenniferambrose5603]

I’m pretty sure it meant to say foundering. To founder is to fail or break down.

[@LovelessDogg1]

Just wait until you find out that the Midsommar festival is a real Swedish thing. lol

[@Amiamigg]

That ättestupa thing where the old people get thrown/jump off the cliff used to be a thing here in Sweden way back in the old norse times, according to the legends. When you can't take care of yourself or work, you're a burden for society so, ya die. Doesn't happen now ofc, but we do care less for our eldery here compared to some other cultures. Aka, they live in service homes (either alone but with a button alarm for when they need help, or in a group home with staff) rather than being cared for by their family. It's sort of odd here to have an old person living with their family. Generally they're well cared for in the homes, but the average age and state of those living there is OLD and SICK, it's nothing like those florida resorts. It's a very common fear for swedish people to become codependent or a burden for those you love. Tbh, I personally know of many people who (secretly) think we should kill old people that 1. are terminal 2. their mind has gone. Elderly people cost a lot of tax money and space, and you can keep terminal old people alive in their beds for fucking years, it's a waste. Personally I wouldn't just kill them, but maybe give people the euthanasia option for when they get that sick/lose their mind, but that's still illegal here. Wow, such a tangent, soz.

[@BusterCherry1]

God, what a sickening screed. You Swedes have abandoned your nation, country, and humanity within one generation. How is it being a burden when such an elder can provide guidance and wisdom? I guess this is why Moslems are taking over your "country".

[@twofrenchbears]

Have you guys seen Talk To Me, a great Australian indie horror movie directed by twin brothers also KZbinrs.

[@zachgaskins3731]

This movie is the Hardcore Belt title holder to The Wicker Man 1973.

[@ohshiitake]

also burning man kinda sucks if you're not rich just a warning

[@theepoch1354]

The movie she is describing is the hills have eyes i think. Or one of the remakes or knockoffs. Silent hill is the one for the video game.

[@alexisisaacson7773]

I think she means the hills have eyes, not silent hill

[@deadeyes4626]

Europeans don’t have big plane seats btw

[@philipho188]

'They'd let her go?' You guys are cute...

[@GothikBeerTV]

"You are the family, yes?"