The Ending Of Midsommar Explained
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Ari Aster’s Midsommar is a shocking and disturbing horror film, just like Aster's debut film Hereditary, but the film deals with much different themes than its predecessor.
Midsommar is about Dani, her boyfriend Christian, and a group of Christian’s friends attending the festival of a bizarre cult in Sweden, but it’s also about the disintegration of a relationship. Dani and Christian clearly should have broken up years ago, only sticking together due to a tragedy in her life, and the ending deals with her finally moving on. Let’s take a look at the explanation of the ending of Midsommar.
#Midsommar #Movie #Film
Breaking up is hard to do | 0:00
Dani the doormat | 1:50
Flowers on the wall | 2:35
Ritualistic uncoupling | 3:49
Feel my pain | 5:05
MidWicker | 5:46
God of Vengeance | 6:36
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How did you like Midsommar overall? Is it worth the hype?
Movie was complete garbage
Finally a movie worth the hype this year. I loved it.
@@vegacula Agreed! 🖒
Wish they showed how her friends died
@@TheAlmightyPain I agree! I'm hoping we get an awesome "Director's Cut" when the DVD comes out!
Bruuuh her cries when her family died was the most realistic reaction I’ve ever seen in a movie. Bravo.
Watch Heriditary and you’ll be convinced otherwise. Tori’s acting was the complete and total embodiment of grief.
Both actresses were outstanding in their roles. And please don't say "bruuuh" when talking about these exemplary films, it sounds like a frat boy.
@@BackwoodsFilms yeah,it sounds stupid and it s kinda cringe
Backwoods Films bruhhh
Bruh it’s not that serious
So the moral of the story is, don't go to an unknown location and take drugs from strangers.
Or be respectful and understanding to the customs of a community that has the control and dont impose your will on them when you're put in such a situation.... unless absolutely necessary
Or just run away after you see two elderly jump off a cliff and get their head bashed in?
Evdog04 That too
@@ES1Baller but then they'll see you run and know you dont approve of thier shenanigans, hunt you down and pull your lungs behind your back
fattyjaybird Would you rather die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become to villain?
Everyone is forgetting about the absolute horror that was the beginning of the movie with her family
everytime i think of this movie it’s not even the ending, it is that one godamn scene of the family.
That’s because it literally HAD zero to do with the rest of the film. This was a beyond weird and unnecessarily drawn out breakup movie
BTWimagod i believe it had a lot to do with the trauma that was expressed throughout the rest of the movie. Like the whole jumping off the cliff thing, that was treacherous for Dani, and when Pelle tried explaining to her that he understands and everything made her extremely anxious. Of course there are other reasons to the trauma and horror she experiences, but the family’s suicide is crucial.
There’s even a theory where Pelle actually killed her parents to try and convince Dani to coming because he knew she would be the perfect May Queen. I would go into more detail but it’s a lot hahah
But yeah, I think that the family’s suicide is super important to the film as a whole. At least it wasn’t a jump scare like all shitty modern horror movies haha
To me, that moment was more horrifying than anything else that happens in the film.
TwinkleStar right it was all a set up why do you think the guy that they meet shakes all the guys hands and says welcome and then to Dani says welcome home
And that’s how cults get you. They kill all old relationships and become your new family. Dani needed to love herself first. Instead she tried to find love in all the wrong places. She’s screwed at the end. I get ya Ari!
Kelii Yamashita Everyone needs to love themselves first. Otherwise you will never know how to truly love another. I agree with what you wrote
Why his name was “Christian”.
Oh god….sounds like my exs…….
Dani’s cry is the most memorable. It's realistic. It hurts. I might hire her to cry at my funeral.
😂😂😂
This is stupid
@@wordupmagazines32 ok boomer
V. V Relax, lol, damn
@V. V go take a nap lmao
That's it. I'm cancelling my trip to Sweden. And I'm staying away from IKEA and whatever beverages they sell during the summer months...
I know its a joke but this is like assuming all chinese people have coronavirus
Diego G ahahahahahhahahahahah
I promise you its not like this in Sweden 😂😂
Jasta Ykotuce you must be fun
Exclusive Exchanger they probably are, just not racist/culture-ist.
Im waiting for Midwintar.
Jose Garza 😂
FFS 🤣🤣😭
LOL!! I love this comment.
Jose Garza 😂😂😂
And I'm waiting for Midautamn.
The ENTIRE theater broke out LAUGHING during the sex scene when they start singing lmaoooo
Same here. 3 grown woman were cracking up hysterically even after the scene was over 😂
I was just there like (c" ತ,_ತ)
yeh haha. some strange reactions. mixed. really made me laugh
There was laughter and some disgust as well. Come on. It’s Ari Aster, he likes his actors naked.
@@CindyBear55 wish it was florence pugh
So when the one guy is telling her he empathizes with her loss because he was orphaned at a young age when his parents died in a fire, I guess we know now what fire!
That particular ritual occurs every 90 years. So I think he was either lying in order to make her trust him or the fire was completely unrelated? My money's on him lying but we only have theories unfortunately
I guess they lie about it being every 90 years or it was another fire Ritual or some not related fire incidence used for firshadowing.
@@milocochrane8307 it’s possible that he was referring to the bodies being burned after Attestupa if his parents became 72 (I presume they did that more than every 90 years). But it wouldn’t make much sense for a mid/late 20s PhD student’s biological mother to be 72. So most likely lying.
This movie was like...therapeutic horror.
Kind of along the same line as side effects. Side effects was a bit more thrilling though. I'm still trying to figure out what happened to Connie lol
@Dani Jacobs oh wow.. Yeah i definitely need to see this movie a few more times.
@Iris E I had a feeling that was her but she just looked so different, i couldn't be sure
@Iris E I recognized Connie's boyfriend and the two friends but weren't the elder's faces all mashed up from the fall/malet? Their faces seemed miraculously put back together. Or were those different people?
@@xgetxsickx Different people. The elders were burned and then their ashes were scattered under the ancestor tree which Mark then peed on....and got himself killed because of that.
"the ending explained" - literally just tells you what happened
The moment where she is grieving in the beginning absolutely cut me to the core. I still haven't gotten over that moment.
Same thing happens in Hereditary. Almost the exact same scene.
@@danielseale9636 The moment that got me in "Hereditary" was the accident itself. I was literally shocked. I haven't been so hit in the gut by a film in years.
the way ari aster directed the first 15 minutes of the film was horrifyingly amazing, the tracking shot that revealed dani family and sisters death really hurt me and Danis sister death is forever burned into mind, i don't think ill be able to watch that scene ever again because it hurts too much watch and having just gotten out of a depressive phase of my life dealing with a breakup being with someone for 3 and a half years exactly like Christian and Dani, what a coincidence? , it felt too real, for me the only other film that can match midsommer is mike flanagans doctor sleep coming this autumn id give midsommer a 9/10, ari aster is at the top of his game one of the best films of the year
@@christopherperifimou9130 I'm with you. That scene was too real for me to ever want to watch again.
too sensitive
Sooooo are we going to forget that Pele kissed Dani
He killed her sister and parents too
rapper/actor tf did you get that information
Chase Guidry He picked her for her beauty, smarts, and birthday. He pays the most attention to her birthday out of any of the guys. He kills off her family so he can give her a new one in Sweden. He tells her the trip will be good for her and means it cause he plans for her to be reborn. Her tragedy was not a coincidence. Furthermore, this cult seems to specialize in poison and such, and her family was poisoned by carbon monoxide, maybe other things to incapacitate the sister first.
rapper/actor she told him the solstice was on her birthday after her family was already dead nice try tho
Chase Guidry there’s a flower crown briefly shown on the floor in the parents house when they’re in the scene where the parents and sister are found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning, this gas is colorless and odorless meaning pelle could’ve successfully killed the parents with no struggle while they were asleep and make it seem as though the sister is the one who committed suicide and killed the parents as well. Dani’s sister is propped up against the wall just like the sacrifices in the final burning ritual.
The actress is so amazing in the movie
Agreed, her reaction to her family’s death gave me chills
Yep she also was in Fighting With My Family.
She is overacting and annoying that's why till now she never make it big in hollywood.
Joel Degala hater !!! You don’t know acting
She's also in Little Women (2019), that's where I found her and end up here. She's very good.
I felt the ending was right. She completed her arc of grieving her family's death and the end of her relationship with Christian. She has a new family and she was born again to live a new life of her own.
and i get that but is that community really "a life of her own"... like she cant even leave if she wants to and when she "joined" the community she was drugged out of her mind lol. She left a shitty boyfriend and friend group but shes not in a much better spot now imo.
I think she's the furthest thing from "sober" at that moment. She has experienced some devastating things very recently and she apparently needed therapy before the sister killed herself and her parents... then everything this cult- like village adds to it.... No where near emotional or logical balance. She's no where near sober, no where near thinking straight. I think she snaps, psychologically, in the end. There's little to know sanity left anymore... so why not "join in?"
I fully agree with you... It's in my opinion that all of these things were manipulated in this direction. She can't have a life of her own. She can't leave... ever again. According to the precedent set in the movie... no one leaves except to go to a college in another country to make friends and manipulate them into visiting your home village for a "summer festival" ... I think she's better off with a crappy boyfriend at college than where she is now. But I think she snaps in the end... and there is little no sanity left.
Yeah the drugs might have worn off by then... who knows how long they lasted and who knows the time frame that it all happened in. I was just expanding on the concept of sober-ism.
@Michelino Guarda Stockholm is several hours south of the village...... :D
can people please stop implying that a person under the influence of drugs can consent?
That would have been the case if he hadn't kissed the girl. That meant that he was into it.
@@manospapas5349 No, he wasn't into it. If he was, he wouldn't have bolted like he did afterwards, the woman wouldn't have been helping him get the girl pregnant. The fact is that Christian was drugged several times by the cult & the redhead girl cast a love spell on him, the girl told him that the drugs would lower his defenses. The same thing when Dani is drugged and Pelle knows this & plants a kiss on her when Christian is behind her. They knew what they were doing. They were trying to take everyone away from her so she would only have them. Pelle's sole purpose in the film was to bring Dani there, he kills her sister, her parents, writes the suicide note on her sister's computer, the big clue is that he leaves those flowers in her parents' bedroom, the same flowers Dani's wearing at the end.
The cult couldn't put it there, since they were in Sweden, Pelle did it because he was the only one that could've done it. He also gets rewarded for this at the end by the cult. Christian wasn't perfect by any means but he was drugged on purpose, the woman was even helping him, then when the drug wears off, he bolts, looking for Dani. They wanted Dani to see Christian because he was the last thing she had. Pelle intentionally tries to manipulate her, telling her happy birthday before Christian, not reminding him that it was the next day and her birthday. Real question is do you think if Christian wasn't drugged or under a love spell, would he willingly sleep with that redhead girl? If Dani wasn't drugged, would she let Pelle kiss her? Personally, I don't think either of them would've done that if they weren't under the influence of the drugs.
TheBraunMachine2011 SUPER legit commentary and take on the film 👌🏼
@@manospapas5349 he was drugged and clearly out of his mind and terrified. I was taken advantage by a girl who knew I was on drugs and more vulnerable. I wasn’t attracted to her but in the moment she clearly took advantage of my state and it was a terrible feeling afterwards. Of course this movie was fiction, but as someone who went through something somewhat similar, trust me, I wasn’t “into it” and it only got worse when I was fully sober.
@@TheBraunMachine2011 yes he would, it was obvious throughout the film, hence the kiss
There’s also a large picture of a girl reaching out to touch a bear’s snout in Dani’s apartment, nice bit of symbolism about her relationship with Christian as compared to the end of the movie
This is definitely going to be a watch twice movie. I'm sure there is tons of symbolism hiding in the background!
The little girl in the painting is also wearing a crown. Foreshadowing Dani becoming the Mayqueen.
All of the artwork in Dani's apartment seemed to include some symbolism.
Fun fact is that picture was made by Swedish artist John Bauer (1882-1918)
. Google "stackars lilla basse" and you will find it.
She's kissing the bear... a "kiss of death" =O
Her smile at the end made perfect sense. She was finally free and at peace with everything and has a new family.
Eric Rawlings symbolically sure, but I can’t help but feel like Dani is a bad person for being happy her ex is dying, as I’ve never wished death on any of my exes
Not even in a metaphor, since she still is being gaslit. She just changed the gas provider.
@@DrGregoryHouseIT that's a very good point as well
@Gore4ever FulciLives meh....
@@DrGregoryHouseIT Exactly! As I watched her evil smile at the end, I found myself wondering how long it would be before the cult did away with her as well? New family my ass.
This is really not horror to me. Just trippy and uncomfortable
Undress S7 Is a constant sense of disorientation and discomfort not a type of horror? The entire movie is basically a bad acid trip. That’s pretty scary to me.
@@skylerpowers8871
It's safe to say we have varying tastes on horror. Some may define it like you do, but most people would consider horror as something that actually give you fear and adrenaline rush when you watch it.
Ac_Fauzan Well I was certainly afraid and it was certainly an adrenaline rush. The level of tension and dread built up was insane. I was physically tense for the entire second half and was quite literally shaking afterwards. Horror is very subjective so I can’t say you’re wrong for not finding it all that scary or unsettling, but I’d say the majority of people who saw it were certainly scared and unsettled by it, so don’t presume that you’re in some majority. Not that the majority is overwhelming. Critics ranked the film quite highly while the audience was more of a 60-40 split. I am well aware slow burning, ambiguous horror with a heavy focus on real life drama over supernatural happenings is not for everyone, but I prefer it over pretty much all mainstream horror (The Conjuring, Insidious, etc etc) with its heavy reliance on loud jump scares and superficial demons (not that those movies aren’t good too). I find it mature, nuanced, and masterfully crafted and it sure is deeply unnerving to me.
This was the dumbest movie I have ever seen wasnt even scary just crappy and funny
@@allaroundholly6927 Well it's a horror comedy so the entire film is supposed to be funny. You may have not personally found it scary but perhaps the dark humor resonated with you.
I was confused the whole entire time I was watching the movie
Weird movie.
It was one of the worst films I’ve ever seen
Am I the only one who cried in the beginning of the movie? When her parents die? I mean the girl is a good actress.
I saw the film a month ago, and I still haven't gotten over that moment. It's probably one of the most painful sequences I've ever seen.
Yup I cried :*
The lack of explanation behind Connie’s death really bothers me. Shortly after Simon disappears, we hear a woman’s constant scream in the distance. We also get a glimpse of Connie’s corpse during the burning ritual at the end of the film. Some are saying she might’ve been drowned because of the wet hair and pale skin, others are saying she was drained of her blood, but there’s no definite answer from the film or Aster himself. I’m genuinely curious about what happened to her.
That kind of bothered me as well. I also was kind of bothered by how Josh was the only guy in the group who didn't have a smitten girl flirting with him to his doom unlike the two guys Mark and Christian.
christian was the only one with a filmed death, so it makes sense that connie's was a mystery too, as well as mark's, simon's, and josh's.
baby sufjan stevens Mark was presumably skinned, as one of the elders was wearing his face as a mask. Josh was fatally hit with a mallet after trying to take pictures of that sacred book, and when Christian was running away from the sex ceremony, we saw Josh’s foot sticking out of the ground like a plant. Simon wasn’t killed, but rather dissected into a blood eagle. Christian found his body in the shed during his attempted escape and you could see Simon’s lungs slowly inflating and deflating. He was alive. But we never got to see what happened to Connie. Only her corpse and a distant scream.
Julie Harless I didn’t notice that, good eye!
duval in the directors cut there’s a drowning ritual where a little boy wears the same outfit as connie, and after her scream if you have the tv on surround sound reallllllly loud, you can hear a faint splash according to the movies subreddit - she had a stone tied to her torso and was drowned
Anyone notice her sister's face in the trees when she's being carried after becoming the may queen? Creepy hidden imagery.
Yes! I saw a video about the hidden things in this movie and at first I couldn't find it, but now it's all I can see!
They let Dani win May queen on purpose. It was all a set up
By the way one of the last 3 girls push the other 1 on purpose lol
I was looking for this comment wondering if anyone else felt like it was rigged
@@davonte_bailey the second they all looked at her and that guy said they were so happy to have her there I knew they saw sum in her and we’re gonna do anything like that to reel her in
Bingo. It becomes a lot more obvious on second viewing. Especially when she’s introduced to Father Odd. He says hello to everyone but only tells her “welcome home”. They’ve known about her and have been waiting for all the plans to unfold.
One thing that confused me, obviously these people have families, friends and professors that know they went to Sweden with this guy. So what happens a week or two later when they never come back home? Does the Swedish guy just keep going to other colleges, befriending people and tricking them into coming home and becoming sacrifices every few years?
Not sure about the first part, but this ritual only happens once every 90 years, the Swedish guy will never have to do this again.
lol I noticed this too. So I do think this should have been answered in the movie. But the answer is almost sort of it in the movie. The reason they go to colleges to befriend and trick these people, is because college campuses today and the students on them are so careless and so lost, and so consumed with themselves, and popularity, and fitting in, they really have no life experience and therefor knowledge or common sense and don't fully understand what it is that they are getting them selves into. I traveled to Africa for 3 months when I was 24 and 10 different people knew the exact address I was going to, how long I would be there, a local number to contact, and I registered with the U.S. embassy there who checked in on me every Monday around noon... Our frontal lobes don't develop until we are about 25 years of age... yet we send children off to college to make their own decisions and prepare for the world when they barely have the intellectual capacity to understand the world. I also think it's important to note that Pelle looks like he is in his 30s and the americans look early 20s. I also do not think the festival happens every 90 years. I think that's a ploy that Pelle tells them because right after that he says "it's a once in a lifetime experience." I think it happens regularly, and they constantly attend college campuses because it's easy pickings ignorant young adults. I'm honestly a little impressed by the developed background of this.
I actually don't think the festival happens every 90 years. I know Pelle says that. But I think that is part of the pitch... part of the sales tactic to convince them that it's a once in a lifetime experience.
I thought pelle died at the end as a sacrifice as well?
@@SupitsS no it was his brother Ingemar
But what if the movie is just Dani’s trip from the “mushrooms” given to her in the beginning?
Ya I thought about that too!!!...also what if she never drank anything maybe none of it would of never happened
Shrooms don't work like that. Marks reaction when they tried shrooms is exactly how it feels.
Ooooohhhhh deeeeeeep :)
The most horrifying thing to me was the idea of living my whole life as one continuous chain of rituals.
Don't you hate it when you break up because of a cult? Oof
Too soon. Hahaha!
Dani Awesome happens all the time
They were already pretty much broken up
Omg it’s the worse
It was going to happen even if the cult didnt intervene :(
I get the impression that if you thought the ending was a happy one, and felt Dani's actions were justified, then it says more about you than anything else. The group are barbaric murderers, and none of the actions of the 5 murdered outsiders warranted that outcome.
Christian and dani had a bad relationship, but that doesn't mean he deserved to die. He was painted in a not great light on purpose, but he wasnt evil, just lazy and selfish. "Cheating"on his partner while drugged and taken advantage of is not fair on him anymore than Pelle kissing Dani was her fault.
Dani was seen to be the innocent party but there are enough signals that she wasnt right for him and wasnt prepared to end it either. Still she had the favourable light to manipulate the audience.
I feel the movie slowly wanted to draw the audience in and have them question whether they were happy in that moment (the ending). To those pleased with Dani's decision to end the relationship (by killing him!), they are the people who are easily strayed from logical reason, who seek revenge and who in that situation, would have joined the cult too. I read a piece that Ari and an actor said as much to a screening of people so know there is something to this.
I have seen alot of reviews writing emotions of empowerment in the ending, and I find that speaks volumes about persons moral compass.
I preferred hereditary tbh, but I love reading peoples interpretations. The movie is a rorschach test, and I find how people view it much more interesting than what the film itself.
Relax
@Liam Steele also 💯%
Nailed it.
Agreed!
AGREED!!! i actually felt bad for Christian srsly!
Is it me or most of the actors they look so uncomfortable just talking about the movie
MissRico5286 I don’t blame them. The movie made me feel uneasy and left tons of discomfort.
@@leneyboo no for sure I have seen them in different interviews and they are just sitting there almost looking ashamed or like they did something wrong. Like damn they been through a rough day....lol
@@MissRico5286 Ritual magic bro
Bc its all part of a higher agenda and satanist like rituals and symbolism disgusted as a "break up" movie. Cmon
YEE CHRAVIS exactly, I’m confused as to how people don’t know this
During the sex scene when the girl started singing, his face was like wtf. I was laughing so hard
“somebody needs to tell those girls they are walking stupid” 😂🤣😂😂
I love how polarizing this director is. I feel like an Ari Aster film isn’t good until a bunch of people call it bad lmao loved this movie, not as much as Hereditary but still very good.
Best explanation video so far. It doesn't examine Christian's duplicitous nature, always hedging his bets, hiding his goals, and putting his desires above others - but it still better explains the transformational elements of the movie.
Yea, he definitely deserved what he got :D
She's saying it as mid so maar. She prolly haven't even seen the movie.
@@Cr-lb5pl i think thats how its said....
@@fattyjaybird7505 nope
Reminds me of Christianity.
This movie left me feeling soooooo perplexed at the end! I felt like, wow, this is disturbing and unsettling but then when Dani smiled I was like, wow, I’m happy she’s found her place and is healing. But then i was thinking about how she was manipulated, as well as the others, by Pelle to be here in the first place which by the way Pelle is the reason all of these people are dead BUT!! Then this whole cult acts so.. kind and welcoming etc and it’s making me feel so TORN LOL.. It is thought provoking and makes me feel so many emotions. This is why this was such a great movie.
Then you fell for the trap
I- .. so you telling me the whole idea of the movie was about a breakup, no one is gonna talk about how his “friend” lead them to get killed for some demon plan and all those people dying
That's just the literal reading of the film, which is easy to understand just by watching it. The ending is more metaphorical and it packs the overall themes of the movie
"She doesn’t realize what’s going on, and she’s just really happy the fire is going up." - Florence Pugh
Daniel Lawrence Wilson Ari Aster said he disagrees with that. And he intends it to mean she does know. But she said she wouldn’t be able to get herself to do it if she agreed. So is a matter of perspective!
@@LukeSchaeferFilms For sure, both pulled from the same article.
It's clear that in the end she belongs there since she is equally mad as they are and she looks quite happy with the death of others. So the message of this movie is clear: when your boyfriend wants to end up the relationship, you kill him while crying and then smile with relief
Make me a sandwich b1tch
OH MY GAWD THANK YOU FOR PRONOUNCING IT CORRECTLY!!!! Like the only damn channel
The way she pronounces Midsommar...
SenorPredo - Minecraft Coasters as a Swede I need to tell you, that is not how it’s pronounced
SenorPredo - Minecraft Coasters or he just sucks at Swedish just like every other American
SenorPredo - Minecraft Coasters They pronounce it correctly several times in the movie
Yeah, what about it?
....correctly
The movie is artistically beautiful but dangerous in a generation of so many people struggling with their mental health. Not for everyone especially if you have depression
I agree, this movie gave me a really bad panic attack
@@mossbryophyta69 I can understand, I suffer from anxiety and it was palpable in this movie! For so much of it, you're on pins and needles because the feeling is so ominous.
I feel that they let Dani win so she could be led away from Christian. Then it all fell into place for the commune.
The two most accurate words to describe this movie, in my opinion, are weird and exquisite. It's an absolute experience.
In my theater someone chose to expose their 4 year old to this experience. Poor kid is going to have some serious nightmares.
🤤🤤🤤
Kawh whaaaaaaat???? 😮😮😮
Kawh
You knew the kid was 4 years old? Kind of weird.
"Thats why you look so guilty right now is because you know" has nothing to do with what you're talking about. It was when Christian wanted to do his thesis on the cult.
You know, Midsommar reminds me of a moment that could have occurred on the old sitcom, The Golden Girls. In this fictional moment, Rose, is telling the girls about another one of her stories from St. Olaf, but then Sofia mentions how Rose is always going on about some Swedish town named Helgafin or Lokiwyn that no one really cares about or wants to hear about. Rose, in her naivety, says something like, "Oh, there's no town called Lokiwym, but as for Helgafin, they lived three valleys over, but we St. Olafins never really went there." Blanch says, "Ok, I'll ask; why did your people never visit that town, Rose?" And Rose responds with, "Well, we don't really talk about it, but simply put... they weren't as... progressive as the people in my town. They still practiced the old ways, so I wouldn't encourage taking a vacation there. I just wouldn't." After a brief moment of awkward silence, Rose would probably say, "Ok, who wants some Cheese cake?" And then go into the kitchen leaving the other girls to wonder what the hell she meant before joining her for dessert.
Right! It also reminded me of that scene.
I just want to know what ends up happening to her
Does she stay in that little village? Does she go get a place in Sweden with that Pelle dude? Does she somehow go back? How does she explain what happened to everyone else who went on the trip with her?
I mean, I highly doubt she's leaving. She most likely would stay and begin a relationship with Pelle. If she never leaves, she doesn't have to explain anything.
idk but I really hope she fixes herself because I really liked dani haha
I think I understood that the ritual of the human sacrifice was done every 90 years, but every year they do a ritual, that's why they have pictures of the queen maidens, they might sacrifice other stuff like crops or animals, and probably the older people. But every 90 years they need 9 human sacrafices.
Correction: 4 years and 2 weeks
I'll be honest, this movie went way over my head. Not until I watched a bunch of UA-cam videos explaining it did I truly understand it. I hated it walking out of the theater but now I definitely want to see it again. It reminded me so much of one of my favorite movies, The Invitation. It's literally night and day but I loved the cinematography for both. Very slow burning and then BOOM at the end.
“ Its about a breakup ”
ITS A FREAKING CULT. My brain aint ready for this 😂😭
Every scene had me wondering wtf is going on.
I kinda relate to Dani state. Being so emotionally isolated and stressed out, I cant help but only give and give to the people and the situation around me. Hoping that I will eventually catch a break.
so when a friend invites to a ritual, dont go ever, .............. every movie ever
I can always count on Looper to provide ending explanations
I think Pelle was obsessed with Dani and he started the whole thing in the winter by murdering her family making it look like Dani sister did it. He probably gave her sister that paralyzing drug from horga and did the whole thing because he wanted Dani to come. He was drawing these beautiful pictures of her and putting things in her mind about her relationship from the beginning. He wanted to be with her. At the end I think he got his wish.
WRONG. How did Pelle murder her family if he was with Christian when it happened?
sorrygtfo probably it was planned out before hand, so he indirectly killed them somehow
@@sorrygtfo they are already did by the time police arrive
And his wish would've fulfilled if he just let Dani & Christian break up. How convenient is that? But no, just let Dani kill Christian as a way for them to break up. Psycho!
@@sorrygtfo How long do you think Dani's sister was like that in the parents house? Her face looked like it had been there for several hours, I think Pelle did murder her family. He also killed Josh in the room when he was taking photos of the book & saw "Mark", the writer/director even confirmed it was Pelle that killed Josh. Pelle's extremely manipulative, he plants seeds in Dani to get her to doubt Christian, they drugged her and only then is when he kisses her, knowing that the drug lowers your defenses.
I don't think Dani would let Pelle kiss her if she wasn't under the influence of the drugs, just like I don't think Christian would've willingly got that redhead girl pregnant if he was under the influence of those drugs and he was drugged several times right before he's with the redhead girl. Pelle knew he could do that and get away with it, he's probably done this kinda thing before. Pelle killed her family, planted the flowers there in her parents' bedroom, the flowers were the same ones that Dani wears at the end during the ritual. The cult was in Sweden at the time, so they couldn't have planted them there, it had to be Pelle. That's why he gets rewarded at the end and he's so happy. He was a real POS, it's safe to say he tricked many people because they actually think he was good for Dani. He's the reason why she's even grieving her family to begin with, he takes Christian away from her, the only one that was there to comfort her when her family is gone, he does this to leave her fully vulnerable to him and the cult. If you've ever seen Hereditary, Ari Aster's done something similar in that with a seemingly trusting character that's being manipulative to one of the main characters.
That screenshot isn't in the movie! I hope there's a director's cut in the future.
I read in an interview with him that there was a longer cut of the movie.
I read the script, there’s a ton of scenes that apparently got left on the cutting room floor or changed, some of the changes I preferred, some I think should have stayed in the movie, one scene in particular shows the brutal slaughter of a ton of baby animals, and needless to say I’m glad it was left out
And when the gir levitates off the floor That wasn’t in it either
GreyVibez gang gang
@@juliaburke52 admittedly I'm glad that was left out.
Movies like this tell you more about the audience than anything else.
Read this in muscle man's voice
@@lasam7470 You know who else read this in my voice?
@@lasam7470 MY MOOOM!!
I really felt for her at the beginning. And it was very sad to see her cling to him and him not wanting or caring for her
Why would Christian even want to break up with Dani? She’s a sweetheart
Because he’s aloof, selfish, and doesn’t want to deal with other people’s shit. You remember how he straight up STOLE his friend’s thesis and then when that friend goes missing, he dismisses any ties or connections to him. Dudes a complete douche.
Gross. She's the worst.
I relate a lot with cristian, when you are in a relationship with a person who has a tramautized past, or a narcisistic sister/mother/father, (in the movie she as a bipolar sister), you will spend a LOT of your time and energy trying to help the emotional problems of that person, and it gets tiring pretty quickly, after some years you just realise that its all futille, a never ending cicle of you having your head filled with someone elses garbage, and the worst thing is that you cant really blame the other, its just that its very hard not to get dragged down when you live with a broken person.
He was simply unbearable.......that is, until he ended up inside a bear.
The very ending reminds me of Rosemary’s Baby. In both scenes, we watch the main female character grow a dark smile with a slow zoom on her face, which signifies she has welcomed the fucked up situation she’s in-rosemary finally accepts the literal spawn of satan as her own, and Dani relishes in her boyfriend’s death and feels a part of the cult.
The Horga (sp) leads Christian into his drugged infidelity (really he was not responsible in a sense) and the Horga also draws Dani in. If the Horga is representative of Dani's part of the relationship it is, in a sense, saying that Dani is the cause of the guy cheating and leaving, so she also destroys him with vengenance. The relationship dying thing doesn't make sense when you realize that all of the characters are being manipulated by the Horga. It draws Dani it, it destroys Christian and makes him into a human sacrifice... all of his friends are murdered as well as Simon and Conie (was that the British girls' name). If it is all emblematic of Dani' and Christian's relationship ending, then it means that Dani is just really passive aggressive and the cause of all the horror. But supposedly Aster wrote this right after a breakup, so maybe he was mad at his ex.
Even without the tragedy of Dani's life, she was already a psychological wreck.
well acted, good looking, but thematically a mess if it's really about a relationship ending and the emotions involved.
I think Christian was responsible. He was looking to break up with Dani for awhile and he kept flirting with that young woman from the village. Also, we learned that he was not the most ethical guy, nor was he a very good friend. The drugs just helped him participate in the ritual - but he still was lucid enough to be weirded out when one the the women "helped" him complete the ritual.
Vicki Dominick Nice to know you blame victims.
I feel like many people think Christian was a bad person, I didn't get that impression at all.
"Do you feel held" the friend asks.
"No'' I'd say
The contest of the May queen in my eyes is the stage of distraction in a break up. she distracting herself made her happy for a bit until the game stopped and she got sad again
Judging from the film, Florence Pugh is also dead now, since Lawrence murdered the Watford brother.
Loved it. Everything was revealed before it happened
FINALLY watched this... annoyingly disturbing piece of art! If a movie has you thinking about it, googling and rewatching it?... it’s done it’s job. And plan to watch it again!
yall make me scared to be involved in a breakup
Movie Synopses: It's jut a spring clean for the May Queen
I kept thinking that too!
Mesmerizing movie for sure. I thought it was too long, and I find some scenes a bit laughable, but I found myself wanting to watch it again. Um, definitely gonna watch it again.
I felt like in this movie just like in Hereditary there is this idea of predestination, that a fate has already chosen for you. The demon in Hereditary was looking for a host to attach itself to and one presented itself, as the May Queen in Midsommar.
99% breakup movie, 1% horror/suspense
IDratherbuymakeup E you obviously haven’t seen it , there must be something very wrong with you if you weren’t disturbed by the movie
Pete please don’t assume there is something wrong with me because I don’t share the the same feelings as you about the movie. Secondly, I never said I wasn’t disturbed. Being horrified and disturbed are two different feelings.
IDratherbuymakeup E . Horror is an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. Not just fear. There were plenty moments of shock and disgust in this movie. I was personally scared of the idea of going there and not knowing how to leave or not being able to leave.
LusiFr l definitely see where you are coming from. For me it just didn’t register that way while I was watching the movie. Trying to place myself in that movie....I wouldn’t have been there in the first place, lol.
I wasn't sure how to pronounce it so I just said mid summer when I bought the tickets
You were actually closer then the person who made this video
If you watch some of the promotional campaigns from A24’s UA-cam channel, it actually is pronounced mid-so-mar
Her crying is what made me watch the movie a second time. It's so guttural. The emotions are the only thing that make any sense in this movie.
i got an IKEA commercial watching this LOL
Lo e the film to bits reminds me of my past. Great ending didn't need explanation
I just watched Chidi walk through the door in the Good Place. I was emotionally not ready for this film
Omg lollll I knew he looked familiar!! He was great in movie
Without knowing about what this video says, the movie had me to tears thinking about a past relationship.
this is the best explanation video of the movie I've seen on youtube.
Never trust a movie reviewer who can’t properly pronounce the name of the movie 😂
I thought all these things reflect how depression and anxiety led the character after the unfortunate incident of her family.
My theater didnt show the scene of dani and christian saying they need to leave during the dark hours
That’s weird it’s right after the cliff sacrifice scene
I think they did a reshoot but in the day time.
I was thinking this story is like a happy dream and then suddenly change into nightmare.i felt it a warm and uneasy at first see the village
This was a masterpiece that was so realistic it was hard to watch. A deep look into the roots of a cult. I’ve spent time in Oslo in the summer and the endless days are surreal. Creating a film this disturbing that only takes place in bright daylight took incredible writing and acting. The artists couldn’t rely on the shadows to get the scares.
Sound design was spectacular as well.
I agree that it's a good film to see how a cult can take the weaknesses of people and use them to manipulate them into their clutches. Describing it as a "breakup movie" as the director did, doesn't feel right to me. Looking at it as a study of how a cult absorbs a person is much closer to what happened. Your comment in just a few words makes more sense than most of what I've heard people say. The sound was really well done. I agree. I'm still not sure I'm glad I saw it, though :D.
Father Philip Kontos it‘s amazing how some of the most original and artistic films are the least enjoyable to watch. This one stayed stuck in my head for days.
The sound design truly blew my mind. How much the pitches resembled screaming & crying really got my ass 😂
@@Cello21777 I agree I was literally in awe
I loved this film it definitely perplexed me but I was so interested in the story, I picked up some things on my own like how she never felt apart with Christian and his friends so the ending made complete sense and put a smile on my face. With time to think about it and watching hereditary again I think midsommar is better on a filmmaking stand point and story though the story of Hed is really good I just feel that mid is more easier to understand every shot in the film is beautiful I was awe throughout the entire film it's so fucking gorgeous the cinematography is fantastic Ari deserves an award for this one I'm so excited to see what's he has next under his sleeve.
I demand Ari Aster to make more movies. I loved Midsommar as much as Hereditary.
Hereditary was straight up Satanic propaganda,and had not one ounce of hope in it. The characters were all predestined and had essentially no will of their own. Evil wins. Hated that movie.
At least, Midsommar offered us a disturbing history lesson and a litmus test. Notice, how the one guy that protested the most at the double suicide was tortured the most? That's what often happens . We kill our prophets and moral leaders.
While people were dying the soul touching music was played continuously...I was horrified and at peace the same time.
ari aster’s inspo was his own experience of a nasty breakup. i guess people really do process stuff differently huh
I was waiting for her to smile at the end. Wasn't a shock.
No one is going to point out they are not even pronouncing the word midsommar right?
Dave Richer I think they’re going on on how Aster pronounces it! 😊
Let’s hope so! The UA-cam money this channel takes in, it be sad to think the narrator did not take 2 second to do a google search for: pronounce midsommar
Right, even in the movie they pronounced it as "summer"
@@SenorPredoMinecraft Did you also not look into it before posting this or?
Are they Swedish? Because the source material made note to pronounce it a certain way for a reason and since they were referring to the movies title and not the actual origin word, they are mistaken and I guess overly culturally sensitive to a fault. This is how you literally argue semantics.
Does this movie need to be explained? Every damn thing is foreshadowed to hell, it's like watching the movie twice
The Republic of Bridger can you explain how? Just saw it want to know what I missed
@@connorbrooks4817 Well, let's start with the big one. The opening image is a prophetic laurel that lays out the entire plot of the film from beginning to end and since I anticipated this as I watched, I couldn't help but mull over every detail of the tapestry as it was on screen for approximately 7 to 10 seconds. That laurel idea reappears several other times in the film including the seduction of Christian through the pubic hair pie as well as the Bear burning, which is prodded at early on when Simon and Chloe (i think her name was) briefly encountered the bear. There's also a brief mentioning of what the children are doing as they play. Their game is called "Skin the fool" which of course we see is an actual thing, later on, being apart of the midsommar ritual. But there's more! We also have Pelle mentioning how his parents died in a fire early on, a reference to the fate of those at the end of the film who will also suffer the same fate. Pelle also reveals, although almost comedically that after the age of 72 all elders are killed. Of course, this is the foreshadowing of the elder suicides later on. I know there's more that I'm forgetting but all of this foreshadowing made me feel like a nail and the movie was the hammer slamming down on me over and over again.
@@RepublicOfBridger did you enjoy it?
@@connorbrooks4817 its was okay. Beautiful looking and it had massive potential that it didnt cash in on. Better than your average horror film despite not being a horror film despite being marketed as a horror film but that's not saying much compared to its competition. In summation: meh
The Republic of Bridger Pelle’s parents can’t have met that fate as that portion of the ritual only happens every 90 years!
I can't express with words how much I love this film. It's the most bizarrely enjoyable and therapeutic thing I've ever experienced.
Despite all of the blatantly disturbing imagery and death, it has an immensely nice, relaxing aura. I didn't finish the movie feeling unnerved; I finished it feeling refreshed and satisfied because of the fact that the movie ends with Dani starting anew. Her harmful relationship with Christian, as well as with his friends, is completely ceased. She is eagerly welcomed into her new metaphorical family, who accept and respect her wholeheartedly for the person she is.
The message of healing and moving on from broken relationships is presented in a very extreme way, with Dani's boyfriend and his friends literally ceasing to live. Dani's smile in the end of the movie as the yellow building burns signifies that she is finally at peace; she is now a part of a family that, unlike her old one, truly loves her. The end of the movie is only the beginning for Dani.
You can't express with words, yet you wrote a whole essay on your post..
@@unknownalien8068 😂😄🤣👍 Touché!!!❤️
I couldn't really identify the dummy like corpses in the end except for Simon and Josh
those were what was left over from the dead bodies whose souls they sacrificed. the black dude was there in part. remember his foot was in the garden.
out of all the characters I felt Josh was the only one I feel like didn't deserve to die
I wanted all of Christian's group to die, starting with the annoying character, who pissed on their sacred tree, and argued he found nothing wrong with that. The tree was dead, and he couldn't see what the big deal was.
@MovieManiac33 Lmfao, nah. He was an entitled prick. The point where I felt like he deserved to die was pressuring them into taking the shrooms with him because "wE CaN't hAvE DiFfErEnT TrIpS" nonsense
MovieManiac33 they were all going to be sacrificed anyways.
S L : You’re right. If Dani didn’t win in that dance to become a May Queen, she would also be one of the sacrificial victims.
@@milcycat7285 I'm not so sure Dani would have been a sacrificial victim. You could see her becoming part of the group, the more she moved away from dickhead, Christian. I think Dani would have been welcomed as a new member, plus she was fresh blood.
After watching this movie I felt disturbed but at peace all at once
i’ve never cried so much more at a film.
This was such a shallow review
I've seen and heard a lot of analyses stating that Christian was callous and deserved what he got for cheating on Dani, but I felt so sorry for him at the end. I also don't think he cheated on Dani; the dude was bewitched, drugged up, and lured into a mating ritual. If anything, he was assaulted. I definitely don't think he deserved his fate.
It's not that he deserved it, it's that the symbolism is cathartic for some people. I agree that he was assaulted (Dani doesn't know this of course), but it's how he'd been treating Dani for a year and a half that made him callous. He definitely didn't actually deserve it, it's just that the symbolism makes people horrified and relieved at the same time because she's finally free of the relationship (though now she's a prisoner of a different kind of relationship)
What about the recurrent imagery of Dani becoming a tree/plant? And what was the significance of her family dying? (Maybe it was a reason for her to become part of the Swedish ‘family’. She had nothing to return to. She had no reason to hold onto anything from her life in America?)
There’s a bear painting in dani’s apartment