@@raine5548 It's all about becoming highly intune with your character to the point of you actually adopting your character's psychology during the duration of production. It takes a lot of energy to get there but that's what pre production and a good director are for lol.
It's a mix between all the sounds in this scene, more particular the sirens of the ambulance that you can see out of the house and the "no no no no" that florence says when she is crying, the musicians literally make music out of her scream, that's another level tbh. You can actually heard ir better on the full version of this song.
Jeremy Ossandón the use of strings for tension, dissonance for the heavy atmosphere, and the ominous tones in the back make for the most chilling opening in cinematic history
Wtf does Ari Aster say to his actors for these scenes. Toni Collette and Florence have some of the most heart-wrenching, disturbing and realistic traumatic yelling I've ever seen.
Florence Pugh destroyed me with her acting in this scene. Girl genuinely sounded like her entire world just ended. Jack Reynor did a great job too. His performance was obviously far more understated and subtle, but he did an amazing job of conveying Christian’s internal despair at being unable to leave Dani after something so horrible happened. He comforted her because that’s what he was supposed to do, but you could tell he was thinking about what the whole thing meant for HIM. He did so much with that one resigned, disconnected look.
@@kingayy9267 Well I think it has something to do with a disease she had when she was younger. It had something to do with her vocal chords, giving her this sort of raspy, husky crying/talking voice, as well as that deep throated cough. But then again, its incredible that she managed to portray this so well. In an interview she said that she had to picture her entire family dead to get this kind of emotion, meaning that she hasn't really gone through this type of trauma. That is the truly incredible part to me.
Florence Pugh crying is the most disturbing thing, because it feels real not like the "Hollywood crying". Crying is a very painful and disturbing experience. She really stole the movie from that very moment. Really, I can't get enough of chills.
@@boithefinger6535 it really is. I remember my mom crying when my older sister died a few months ago. Her wailing while the people of the morgue were taking my sister's body was too painful and it really disturbed me to hear her crying.
It is very realistic, maybe TOO real. Her crying gave me goosebumps because that’s exactly how I sounded when I found out my childhood best friend overdosed on heroin for the last time. She was more like a sister to me than a friend. You can only scream for a while because it hurts so much. I could hear myself and couldn’t believe the noises I was making came from me because they were just raw. Like a baby, almost.
It's quite realistic. What is even more disturbing is that that snore she lets go of when laying in Christian's lap can only be reproduced when someone crying uninterrupted for a bit longer time.
It’s so crazy that Florence said she finds it difficult to cry on screen but her crying in this film is the most realistic I’ve ever heard from any movie. She’s amazing!
@Rachelann Apolaro In an interview, she mentioned needing to take mental health days while filming this movie. Completely understandable. It's a heavy one.
People aren't very good judges of their own performance. Some think they're better than they are, some think they're worse. There was a study about this making headlines a couple months ago, your peers are better than you at judging your abilities, and her peers speak highly of her. And of course, anyone who's seen this scene. Absolutely phenomenal acting.
This opening paints Christian's character head-on. He's already hesitant as he walks up to Dani's home, not because he knows the magnitude of the situation, it's because he dreads comforting her because he just wants out of her life. He knows this tragedy will have her latch to him more.
Try to imagine yourself in his position. Imagine you're about to leave someone you *no longer have feelings for* and then their entire family is murder-suicided.
Eh, i think the film’s about more than just Christian and Dani; it’s about the individualistic society they live in and how it berates you for seeking the type of emotional support that Christian, someone that thrives under such a society, is unwilling to provide. She needs a community, a surrogate family, now that her literal family died at the same time and no one’s willing to lend her that. It’s why the cult ends up feeling free by the end of the film: She finally feels the weight off her shoulders because others helped her carry it (Also because once you and your new cult bffs kill your ex boyfriend in ritualistic sacrifice there’s no going back but hey what can you do?)
@@doomed2existence780 i don't think he necessarily hates her, it just the burden that is tied to her, to their relationship that he no longer wants, that he no longer feels good in. Naturally he wants to get out of it if/when he cans to.
Add to that, he was so dismissive of her concerns about her sister. Turns out, not only was she right, but her parents are dead too. Not in a gruesome shotgun-chainsaw massacre kind of way. But in a way that it could've been stopped or prevented. Instead of an intervention or hospitalization for her sister, she's having to attend three funerals.
While watching this in theaters, it was one of the most disturbing moments of my life. I sat there in pure terror, feeling like I may actually vomit. This opening is one of the most real and horrifying scenes I've ever seen..
After seeing hereditary in theaters and the whole scene with Toni Colette, I couldn’t help but chuckle a little bit knowing what I was about to get into when I saw this in theaters. I remember leaning to my wife when the titles came in and just saying “yep.”
Reality, on many levels, much more terrifying than that of fantasy. Because these things do, had and will happen in real life, there for alot of room of insert ourselves in.
That image of Dani's sister still haunts me. The waxy, grey skin. the wide open eyes with clouded lenses. And the hose, crudely duct taped to her mouth as to thwart any second thoughts about suicide. She sealed her fate and the fates of her parents, and to an extent, the fates of Dani and her friends. Ari Aster is truly one of the modern masters of horror
Johan Smallberries Ten of the most chilling, ominous, and genuinely frightening words that have ever been shown in what I now consider to be one of my favorite yet disturbing and downright horrifying opening scenes in any movie from the past ten years. I mean, Jesus...just the way the camera slowly zooms in on where the message is shown was also, in my opinion, scary as hell *shudders* P.S. Last but certainly not least, the way the camera cuts to show Dani being held tightly in Christian's arms while releasing gut wrenching sobs of unimaginable anguish and grief as well as profound horror as she struggles to grasp the reality of her situation is enough to make anyone cry just by watching her. *shudders*
This. I went to my best friend’s house on my birthday and she’s like “Want to watch a movie?” and put this on and I’m like oh no what did I get myself into
@@SRLovesPandas1 it was more than that. I can laugh off a cheesy jump-scare movie. I hadn’t seen Hereditary at this point so I had no idea of Aster’s capabilities as a director. It was a moment of “oh no, this is going to fuck me up for a while.”
When I watched this for the first time, I cried along with her. It was not just the wails or gasping for air between each sob,; it was the pure rattling, raspy, cough-like exhale or her sobs. The body trying to push all possible air out of the lungs. It is such a deep ache that eventually travels through the body and its HEAVY. But all this combined with the fear and anxiety she had already, this was her worst fears being proven right. This extremely up close and personal view of anxiety, trauma, PTSD is soo good
That coughy sound MUST be some sort of sound effects, i just saw this movie today and that made my blood freeze, like goddamn,,,,that's just impossible to get by "acting" and the whole scene... damn.... speechless....
It was the most disturbing for me, personally. The odds of running afoul of a pagan cult are pretty low but the horror and anguish of loss is something most of us have to deal with. Maybe not on this scale, but it’s an ever present threat.
@Your_average_jane someone will probably have a better answer, but I assume she was convinced it was her responsibility to free them from themselves. Super fucked.
The violins also match the sirens, so the music, her wailing, and the sirens all blend together for this insanely intense and anxious opening that is one of the most effective I’ve ever seen
A friend told me that God can never give you more than you can handle. I never thought of it that way, grief has no time stamp, you can spend hundreds of years hurting, but maybe even your last breath you can heal and hurt no more.
What I love about the crying is the pause from 2:46 to 2:51. A realistic touch to a visceral cry. When your body gets those very lasts few breaths out of your lungs and you just pause there for a second before gasping for breath again. GOD I've had at least 3 of those cries this year.
Absolutely gut-wrenching. The slow reveal of the scene, the spine-tingling music, and hearing Dani sob and wail like a wounded animal shook me to the core.
This scene hits different when you're familiar with the kind of grief being portrayed...........a few months ago I was sleeping and i was woken up by my moms screaming when she got the news her dad (my grandpa) died........i still hear it so clearly in my head and this scene just brings me back to that night
A few weeks ago I learned that a friend of mine was killed in a murder-suicide by her husband. I'm still trying to process it, and my mind keeps coming back to this scene, because I called up my mother screaming in the same way Florence does here. This movie shows exactly what it feels like to lose someone so suddenly and violently.
When I lost my husband suddenly in 2017 I sounded EXACTLY like Dani…I didn’t plan it, couldn’t stop it. It’s the sound you make when you have to escape an unbearable reality that’s all the way inside you now.
I'm sorry that you lost someone you loved so suddenly. :( I know exactly what you mean though, it's like you're crying from the pit of your stomach. I hope you're doing okay.
Nothing is more devastating.... than agony which can not be soothed. Loneliness with No relief in sight is the most horrifying terror one will ever face.
On a visit to the ER for my grandmother, I once heard screams and crying exactly like this. A woman had just lost her son to an opiod overdose. This is a sound of unimaginable pain and I never want to hear it in real life again. It sounded just like this. Excellent acting, not to mention the attention to detail- like when it zooms into the laptop screen and you see her sister's exploded eye. A well-made masterpiece of a film.
gut-wrenching as her crying is, that dani is crying so viscerally is the healthiest response she can have to this situation. she hasn’t gone numb, she doesn’t turn to denial; in this scene, she lets her grief happen, wholly and undignified. but you see, in christian’s body language as he holds her, *that he’s trying to quiet her*. he does so passively, while he’s got his arms around her, but the way he’s rocking her, the way his hands are always moving, you can see that he has no idea what to do. because he has no emotional connection with dani and can’t empathize enough with her to share her pain. so he fidgets. he wants her to stop crying as quickly as possible. not only does this highlight the gravity of their failed relationship, it also lays the groundwork for what’s to come. had christian allowed dani to mourn healthily as she does here, that is, by mourning with her (as the harga do eventually), she probably wouldn’t have gone along on his trip. it’s sort of like the illustration on the fresco in the opening, where christian and dani are walking toward the harga, literally towards his end.
I think he doesn't know what to do but he feels really upset to. He is just in shock. He wasn't directly connected to her family but can empathize. That's a lot to take in.
A good observation. Also, notice how slowly he walks to her apartment, as if he is reluctant to go in. When someone I love has had devastating news like this I can't get to them fast enough. This just shows that while he knows going to comfort her is the right thing to do, his heart isn't in it at all.
About a year ago, my grandmother pasted away from Alzheimer’s and we were there in her last breathing moments. When she was finally put to rest, my mom just broke wailing hysterically, her cries ringing throughout the hospital. Florence Pugh embodied and executed the pain and grief phenomenally, bringing back that dark memory to mind every time .
When you grieve, and i mean real grief, you wail. You start screaming hysterically and at a babys pattern that you repeat over and pver until you lose your voice.Exactly like a baby. Thats how you distinguish regular sad crying from greif crying.anyone whose been through alot of shit would know exactly what i mean. The real pain crying.
Everyone keeps talking about Florence Pugh’s acting in this scene (with good reason). But I have to talk about the way they depicted the bodies. Very rarely when I’m watching a movie do I feel like I’m looking at real dead bodies. This was an exception. Her sister’s body is scarier than any zombie, demon or monster in any movie ever.
The parents walls have flowers on them... their ‘tomb’ is the same as danis final dress, the tomb of her old self... also right before when Dani fist calls them and they’re shows in the bed there’s a picture of Dani under two archs of flowers The details in this movie are insane
Put yourself in his shoes, though. His girlfriend’s sister just killed their parents and herself. I wouldn’t want to go home to that either, really. No one would. Even if he wasn’t an emotionless asshole, it’s a traumatic and draining situation to be in the middle of.
I remember Rob Zombie said something along the lines of like he hated death scenes in movies, he hated how people would say which was their favorite death, he said death was not really like that and I like how they portrayed that grief in this scene ......I'm too lazy to type
@@TheNodferatuHonestly I feel like the whole “Death in X movie was my favourite” especially in movies all about romanticising death like Final Destination is more of less a long winding coping mechanism, like how we joke about how trauma and struggles. I feel like it all boils down to contemplating our own emotions with something and the fact that we can’t just be one emotion about something all the time, it’s not realistic, especially when it comes to fiction. We’re naturally curious and we also fear the unknown as well as being interested in it.
Why do guys have the childish urge to make everything into a competition? Both actresses did an equally good job, and both screams were absolutely harrowing. Zero reason to rank them.
Box0rz you diluted a normal conversation about comparing acting talent into a topic of immaturity and sexism. I think it’s safe to say your opinions aren’t valid in this subject. Of course there’s a reason to rank them. Why the fuck do you think awards for acting exist?
Milksteak Because people on the internet feel the urge to rank absolutely everything which just creates conflict and arguments. It’s really annoying sometimes. And nothing about sexism in my comment.
Dude hearing her painful cry is so heart breaking, I’ve watched it so many times and still cry hearing it. Never seen any actor or actress bring it to life so well
@@SuperMiIk not completely dude went into the temple to to click photos of the book when an elder told him absolutely not to and he also didn't question where mark, Connie and Simon went so in the end really the only one sane was Dani
@@angela-dm7vo lmaoo they planned tge whole thing, they purposely told josh not to take pictures cause they knew he would go and do that, they planned the whole thing from the beginning
I still haven't gotten over this scene. Losing a family member is awful, but losing all of them at once - the human heart was not made to deal with that.
I would just love to have been a fly on the wall what, if any, direction Ari Aster gave Florence Pugh before this scene cos her wailing just felt so raw and genuine, her performance in this film is fucking incredible.
She will get a nod for Little Women and not this because The Academy are a bunch of Genre picky assholes who look for Drama performances and overlook Genre performances. Look at Toni Collette last year. And the same is going to happen to poor Lupita from US. Florence Pugh and Lupita Nyong'o gave the best performances this year and they will sadly be overlooked because the academy chooses Drama over Genre.
I'm both amazed and disturbed with her acting here. It's a scene that I occasionally go back to, yet I'm always reminded that someday, this will be us. Whether it's the loss of a parent, spouse, sibling, friend, or godforbid, a child. Is part of the human experience. At some point, we will all have to face a moment like this.
This opening scene is the most beautiful and horrifying scene I have ever watched in my entire life. The violens, the camera shots, the pure, agonising crying from grief. This is the finest scene I have ever laid my eyes on and it is heartbreaking.
I went into this movie without knowing about this scene, and this was during a time when I lost four loved ones within a span of two months. Needless to say, this scene really hit me hard because I can really empathize with Dani's despair in this scene because it's almost like how I felt. The only difference is I still have a support system to support me through my grieving process, but Dani had no one. Her boyfriend was emotionally unavailable, his friends were douchebags, and while the cult pretended to care about Dani, they're really just manipulating her into joining them. In the end, Dani was all alone.
Ok. Before I thought Dani was doing a bit extra with the crying and wailing but. But. Last night somebody got killed down the street from me and this lady found his body outside on her driveway and oh my god. Oh my god. Sounded just like her. I have never heard screaming and crying like that before until last night. So I just came back to say: She should’ve won an Oscar for just this scene alone. She honestly real life portrayed grief, trauma, sadness and utter disbelief in this scene alone. I don’t know how you could just do that without any type of real stimulation. I am not lying when I say that Dani sounded just like the lady from last night.
I was present when my grandma died, she had cancer for 2 years before succumbing, on her bed, surrounded by family. My grandpa was quietly crying when we realized it was happening but after her last breath he started wailing, literally screaming for her. My heart broke twice that day, for saying goodbye to her and seeing his pain, it's really not exaggerated 😞 I usually have that memory stored away in the farthest part of my brain, it was among the most painful things I've seen.
@@PolliitoAle Yup. My grandpa died when I was 10 and my grandma was wailing and screaming for him. Genuinely one of the most heartbreaking things I’d experienced :(
When I saw this with my wife in the theater I got nauseated at this scene. This film was one of the most trippy and fantastic experiences I've had in a movie theater.
Her crying makes me want to cry. A human knows when theyre being lied to, when the crying is fake, and we feel nothing. Her grief acting in the movie was just so so real and good.
*The traumatic crying tightens up my throat and gets me teary eyed - Florence’s acting is INCREDIBLE. Both Midsommar and Hereditary are so unsettling!*
Ari Aster seems to have started a theme with making these talented women do the most disturbing and raw crying scenes and can't say i'm upset about it. Toni Collette and Florence Pugh's grieving scenes in Hereditary and Midsommar aren't like anything I've ever seen or heard in a movie before. Insane.
I love this scene, probably one of my favorite scenes in any movie (not saying other stuff in this movie isn’t better, I love everything about this movie). All the sounds, her insanely good acting, oh my god. I love how this event in their relationship seals them together, like he can’t just leave her like this. They were doomed from this. I’m obsessed with the music, cinematography, story, and acting of this movie, my god
CW: suicide. I don’t know if Ari Aster will ever see this, but I certainly hope that this means something to him or to the people who made this movie who might see this comment as well: watching this movie alone in theaters and experiencing those opening scenes is one of the big reasons I choose to stay alive every. single. day - I could never do that to the people I love.
The thing that terrifies me the most in this scene isn’t the music, it’s the atmosphere. The emergency personnel showing up and turning off the cars, the tubes going up the stairs and into the parents room, and of course the slow camera shot of Terri, bloodshot gazing eyes with homemade suicide mask attached to her face. Not to mention the fact that the entire house is pitch black while it’s going. Seriously, this is pretty much what you would think a murder suicide would be and look like. It also left me with some questions, 1. How did Terri know how to set up those tubes so accurately and 2. Why did she keep her door wide open instead of closing it like her parents. Still, this scene is petrifying in every possible way
To answer your question she closed her parents door and sealed the bottom so the carbon monoxide couldn’t escape. She left her own door open because she chose to tape the hose to her face so it didn’t matter if her door was open or closed. She wanted to kill her parents while they slept so that’s why she closed their door and piped the exhaust in the room so they wouldn’t know.
She should've gotten an Oscar nomination for Midsommar just as much as she got one for Little Women which came out the same year. But, you know how the Academy rolls...they don't like horror movies.
This scene is so demented and cruel. There's just something particularly horrific about being murdered by someone who is mentally ill. There's no rational reason for it. It's just senseless and disturbing. I feel so bad for Dani. She knows something is terribly wrong, but she's powerless to do anything about it. Its a perfect nightmare.
Florence is one hell of an actress. Midsommar is one of my favorite films, and I cry during this scene every single time. I feel so much of Dani's character within myself- and not just the grief part. When I lost my Dad in 2020, I wailed and fell to the floor the same way. People rushing you to grieve and not being supportive while you're in a 24/7 stupor trying to numb the pain with medication. I was impressionable and vulnerable, and still am. Unlike Christian, my fiance was there night and day, but as for 80% of my other friends, they were all a bunch of Christians... I think that's why I commiserate with Dani's character so much.
I can't believe my friend thought Florence Pugh "didn't do that good" in this movie because he didn't like the tone of it. He said he first accepted her as a good actress when we saw Fighting With My Family.
Hearing this type of pain in real life will forever change you. It's a pain that is terrifying to contemplate, which is why it works so well in this movie.
i felt physically sick after watching this scene, and i wondered if there was that audio that makes people feel sick somehow laced into the violin. nope. just pure talent.
I mean, partiality. The main droning of the violin is an incredibly dissonant tone. It's a half step modulation and that is the most dissonant interval that can be recognized in music theory. Its very ugly(in a good way) and really plays on your fight or flight. Not go go full music nerd, but I think this scene would not have had as extreme of a physical reaction without such a fantastic score.
As soon as those drums start around 2:52, I got chills when I was in the theater. I also LOVED the music because it reminds me a lot of FLYING LOTUS' "Fire is Coming"... ("There's a fire in the street, everybody move your feet. There's a fire in the street, everybody move your feet").
Look how it goes to the next scene at the last second here. It’s even more crushing than her screams. Because when someone you care about dies, especially when it’s someone in your personal world rather than a celeb, life seems like it suddenly stops caring and goes on like nothing happened after a certain amount of time and leaves the mourner in the dust. Even just that can make a mourner have some really ugly thoughts because that feels like an insult when someone meant so much to them and the world carries on just because they didn’t know this person.
For me what makes this scene so terrifying is how mundane and plausible it is. It's not a supernatural monster, a serial killer or some unlikely scenario: it's something that could possibly happen to any of us.
This scene and Hereditary scene when *spoiler* Annie (Toni Collette, amazing actress) founds the body of her daughter and starts crying/screaming... Dear Ari Aster, how do you do it??
the music is by far the greatest part about this scene. the long, single note instantly triggers a gut feeling in the viewer that something horrible has happened. i went into this movie completely blind (courtesy of my friend, will never forgive her) and i was shaking as soon as i heard the song playing.
I remember the crying part was really loud in the cinema I watched it in, when it first came out a couple years back. It was so haunting and in your face. Not to mention this whole part of the opening scene. And seeing this clip again just made me get chills. That’s raw emotion right there. Not just tears and a frown - real raw grief. I’m sure a lot of us have heard these types of wails at funerals by those that lost their loved ones, or us, that have lost our loved ones.
i remember my first time watching this and i was iffy about it but damn, just the cinematography and the use of music/sound and her wailing cries i was instantly hooked. i never felt that about a movie so fast.
this scene was exquisite. I have never winced harder in a horror movie... no amount of body horror can evoke the kind of reaction that Ari Aster has been able to get from me - for me personally at least. I've never been simultaneously sick to my stomach and had chills. I hope Aster makes movies for a long, long time.
Good God this is the kind of real crying you hear at actual funerals. That plus the music is soooo disturbing but really speaks to the skills of Florence Pugh
Honestly? This is the most haunting scene I've ever witnessed. Hereditary's big tragedy was well done in terms of acting, but the whole situation lacked realism... This scene lacks nothing, and the sheer trauma directly on display. Jesus
Look at the sublime cinematography of this scene. Aster use uses a reverse construction to what is normally seen: first of all we hear the scream of Dani, preamble of what is going to happen. Tension building is masterful: we hear the scream, we don't know what happened, but we know something horrible has happened. Then this beautiful sequence-shot: no tight or frenetic editing, but slow framing. No jumpscare. This is what real horror looks like.
Ok so as a Swede I've had very mixed feelings about this movie ever since I first saw the trailer BUT- This scene is genuinely horrifying and I gotta applaud the actors and the rest of the crew for their work on it.
One of my favorite films ever. Truly an artistic and horrific masterpiece. Every element, a shot, everything. Also one of the best movie representations of anxiety and trauma I have yet to see.
Had to job shadow an ER once, this scene sends chills down my spine Everytime, because the wailing is so god damn real. I’ve listened to a mother break down as her child passed in the room we were attending to him in, and I get flashbacks when I see this scene
Florence Pugh was nominated for "Little Women" which came out the same year and it fit the Academy's view of what deserves Oscar nominations. Hot take but Pugh gave the stronger performance in Midsommar and should've been nominated for this too.
I felt the true pain and grief this scene evokes, and started crying in theater. Masterful cinema, masterful directing, and masterful acting, couldn't ask for more. And this was just the first minutes of the movie.
The great thing about both this, and Toni Collette crying in Hereditary when she learns what happened to her daughter, are SO gut-wrenching because she and Pugh are so convincing you feel what they are feeling
I received a call 2 months ago from my parents walking into my sister’s apartment and finding that she had taken her life. This was my exact reaction as my girlfriend held me. This scene is insanely real and so heartfelt.
Her crying here is the most real acting I've probably seen in terms of reinacting trauma response. Wow
MyEverchangingLife The only other ones that come to mind are Toni Collette and Alex Wolff, both in Hereditary. I don’t know how Ari Aster does it!
watch hereditary
@@raine5548 It's all about becoming highly intune with your character to the point of you actually adopting your character's psychology during the duration of production. It takes a lot of energy to get there but that's what pre production and a good director are for lol.
@@raine5548 Toni Collette? certainly!... But Alex Wolff?..... Eeeehh... He's not BAD, but his crying was.
@@hongquiao I thought that is how you would cry considering his situation. It sounds totally pathetic and child like but that's the point.
the violins mimicking the sound of sirens sold this to me in the first few seconds. outstanding.
EXACTLY!😂
frankieyoubitch Pughs acting in this first scene is beyond exceptional, as well.
Those cries sound so realistic.
It's a mix between all the sounds in this scene, more particular the sirens of the ambulance that you can see out of the house and the "no no no no" that florence says when she is crying, the musicians literally make music out of her scream, that's another level tbh. You can actually heard ir better on the full version of this song.
Can't tell which is which
Jeremy Ossandón the use of strings for tension, dissonance for the heavy atmosphere, and the ominous tones in the back make for the most chilling opening in cinematic history
Wtf does Ari Aster say to his actors for these scenes. Toni Collette and Florence have some of the most heart-wrenching, disturbing and realistic traumatic yelling I've ever seen.
Actors AND actresses. Stop trying to erase everything that makes women different from men.
@@englishatheart actors is pluralistic
Christine C. Curb your sjw
@@ArtAttack98 if anything she's being an annoying anti-sjw. They sound similar but aren't
Christine C. actors is plural for actresses and actors but ok
The most horrific movie opening ever. Emotionally, it's not even draining, it's RAW AND CRUSHING. Those cries sound so real.
@embersoftheabyss im a year late but the cast have said they needed therapy after finishing the movie bc it fucked them up so bad
@embersoftheabyss that is CHILLING.
Florence Pugh destroyed me with her acting in this scene. Girl genuinely sounded like her entire world just ended.
Jack Reynor did a great job too. His performance was obviously far more understated and subtle, but he did an amazing job of conveying Christian’s internal despair at being unable to leave Dani after something so horrible happened. He comforted her because that’s what he was supposed to do, but you could tell he was thinking about what the whole thing meant for HIM. He did so much with that one resigned, disconnected look.
@@sleepyrodent True that
This and the opening scene of Sinister are truly disturbing
The realest part about her crying is the chest Wheezing
The kind of wailing cry that sounds painful
How did she fake this??
(Meaning acting it out so realistically)
@@kingayy9267 Well I think it has something to do with a disease she had when she was younger. It had something to do with her vocal chords, giving her this sort of raspy, husky crying/talking voice, as well as that deep throated cough. But then again, its incredible that she managed to portray this so well. In an interview she said that she had to picture her entire family dead to get this kind of emotion, meaning that she hasn't really gone through this type of trauma. That is the truly incredible part to me.
@@bellamarkarian222 do you have a link to that interview? I've been trying to find interviews with her and for some reason it's difficult
@@rubyred3580 I'll see if I can find it for you!
sounds legit like shes been screaming for hours
Florence Pugh crying is the most disturbing thing, because it feels real not like the "Hollywood crying". Crying is a very painful and disturbing experience. She really stole the movie from that very moment. Really, I can't get enough of chills.
It was too realistic for me because I remember my mom crying on the floor like that when she lost her brother.
@@boithefinger6535 it really is. I remember my mom crying when my older sister died a few months ago. Her wailing while the people of the morgue were taking my sister's body was too painful and it really disturbed me to hear her crying.
Emotional pain like that can be physical almost. Shes crying like shes been stabbed and thats unfortunately as real as it gets.
It is very realistic, maybe TOO real. Her crying gave me goosebumps because that’s exactly how I sounded when I found out my childhood best friend overdosed on heroin for the last time. She was more like a sister to me than a friend. You can only scream for a while because it hurts so much. I could hear myself and couldn’t believe the noises I was making came from me because they were just raw. Like a baby, almost.
It's quite realistic. What is even more disturbing is that that snore she lets go of when laying in Christian's lap can only be reproduced when someone crying uninterrupted for a bit longer time.
It’s so crazy that Florence said she finds it difficult to cry on screen but her crying in this film is the most realistic I’ve ever heard from any movie. She’s amazing!
It probably takes a lot out of her to do this performance
@Rachelann Apolaro
In an interview, she mentioned needing to take mental health days while filming this movie.
Completely understandable.
It's a heavy one.
Maybe it’s difficult because she holds herself to such a high standard. So when she’s successful we get phenomenal performances like this
People aren't very good judges of their own performance. Some think they're better than they are, some think they're worse. There was a study about this making headlines a couple months ago, your peers are better than you at judging your abilities, and her peers speak highly of her. And of course, anyone who's seen this scene. Absolutely phenomenal acting.
@@elledesperado721 I was thinking along this line as well.
This opening paints Christian's character head-on. He's already hesitant as he walks up to Dani's home, not because he knows the magnitude of the situation, it's because he dreads comforting her because he just wants out of her life. He knows this tragedy will have her latch to him more.
Try to imagine yourself in his position.
Imagine you're about to leave someone you *no longer have feelings for* and then their entire family is murder-suicided.
I’d feel blessed to have a gf like Dani idk why he hates her
Eh, i think the film’s about more than just Christian and Dani; it’s about the individualistic society they live in and how it berates you for seeking the type of emotional support that Christian, someone that thrives under such a society, is unwilling to provide. She needs a community, a surrogate family, now that her literal family died at the same time and no one’s willing to lend her that.
It’s why the cult ends up feeling free by the end of the film: She finally feels the weight off her shoulders because others helped her carry it (Also because once you and your new cult bffs kill your ex boyfriend in ritualistic sacrifice there’s no going back but hey what can you do?)
@@doomed2existence780 i don't think he necessarily hates her, it just the burden that is tied to her, to their relationship that he no longer wants, that he no longer feels good in. Naturally he wants to get out of it if/when he cans to.
Add to that, he was so dismissive of her concerns about her sister. Turns out, not only was she right, but her parents are dead too.
Not in a gruesome shotgun-chainsaw massacre kind of way. But in a way that it could've been stopped or prevented. Instead of an intervention or hospitalization for her sister, she's having to attend three funerals.
While watching this in theaters, it was one of the most disturbing moments of my life. I sat there in pure terror, feeling like I may actually vomit. This opening is one of the most real and horrifying scenes I've ever seen..
Yeah this was easily the most disturbing part of the movie for me. Honestly.
The music intensifying while her cry gets louder.
After seeing hereditary in theaters and the whole scene with Toni Colette, I couldn’t help but chuckle a little bit knowing what I was about to get into when I saw this in theaters. I remember leaning to my wife when the titles came in and just saying “yep.”
That was more Hereditary for me. After that this was nothing (not NOTHING but still)
Reality, on many levels, much more terrifying than that of fantasy. Because these things do, had and will happen in real life, there for alot of room of insert ourselves in.
That image of Dani's sister still haunts me. The waxy, grey skin. the wide open eyes with clouded lenses. And the hose, crudely duct taped to her mouth as to thwart any second thoughts about suicide. She sealed her fate and the fates of her parents, and to an extent, the fates of Dani and her friends. Ari Aster is truly one of the modern masters of horror
Think her family was murdered by the weird Swedish friend who's behind all these to break Dani enough for her to join the trip.
Not to mention the vomit all over her shirt and neck. Like Jesus fucking Christ I hope Ari is in therapy lmfao
@@Gapetz ummm no. It's clearly a murder suicide. The email sets that up.
you can see on her shirt that she threw up also, so she didnt die at first try. very distrurbing to think about that
@@MadameChristie Dani says about that email that it's nothing like she ever sent before
“Everything is black.. mom and dad are coming too goodbye”
Wait is that what the message read?
Wait is that what the message read?
John Smith Yup...it's a little hard to see due to the print being kind of small but yes, that is what the message says.
Johan Smallberries Ten of the most chilling, ominous, and genuinely frightening words that have ever been shown in what I now consider to be one of my favorite yet disturbing and downright horrifying opening scenes in any movie from the past ten years. I mean, Jesus...just the way the camera slowly zooms in on where the message is shown was also, in my opinion, scary as hell *shudders*
P.S. Last but certainly not least, the way the camera cuts to show Dani being held tightly in Christian's arms while releasing gut wrenching sobs of unimaginable anguish and grief as well as profound horror as she struggles to grasp the reality of her situation is enough to make anyone cry just by watching her. *shudders*
So terrible.....
This is the exact sequence in the movie that made me realize in the theater that I’d made a huge mistake.
This. I went to my best friend’s house on my birthday and she’s like “Want to watch a movie?” and put this on and I’m like oh no what did I get myself into
no going back buddy ;)
This movie ain't for pussies.
the moment of "oh shit this is a horror movie?"
@@SRLovesPandas1 it was more than that. I can laugh off a cheesy jump-scare movie. I hadn’t seen Hereditary at this point so I had no idea of Aster’s capabilities as a director. It was a moment of “oh no, this is going to fuck me up for a while.”
When I watched this for the first time, I cried along with her. It was not just the wails or gasping for air between each sob,; it was the pure rattling, raspy, cough-like exhale or her sobs. The body trying to push all possible air out of the lungs. It is such a deep ache that eventually travels through the body and its HEAVY.
But all this combined with the fear and anxiety she had already, this was her worst fears being proven right. This extremely up close and personal view of anxiety, trauma, PTSD is soo good
Honestly how in the FUCK did she do that wheezing/chest coughy sound? How does an actor do that?
@@rc4083 I think that's because of the disease that Florence Pugh has called Traecheomalacia
(I apologize if I spelled it wrong)
@@elizabethbronson1126 not to interrupt, but I was wondering if it was because of Pugh's disease Traecheomalacia.... what do you think about it
That coughy sound MUST be some sort of sound effects, i just saw this movie today and that made my blood freeze, like goddamn,,,,that's just impossible to get by "acting" and the whole scene... damn.... speechless....
Thats years of smoking ciggs or weed
Midsommar is a great film I never want to watch again. And to think this isn’t even the most disturbing part of the film.
Slick Grit Productions the most disturbing part is the sex scene, in which I had the pleasure of watching beside my little sister in the theatre
Pinhead Larry WAIT, BESIDE YOUR LITTLE SISTER!? ARE YOU SERIOUS???!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
the cliff scene was unsettling.
It was the most disturbing for me, personally. The odds of running afoul of a pagan cult are pretty low but the horror and anguish of loss is something most of us have to deal with. Maybe not on this scale, but it’s an ever present threat.
@@Chielz0r bro..
The most genius opening. The violins matched her moans, the subtle ness of the firefighters body language. Omg what a masterpiece
Why’d she kill her parents too 😞😞
@Your_average_jane someone will probably have a better answer, but I assume she was convinced it was her responsibility to free them from themselves. Super fucked.
@@volcom290x sad :((
The violins also match the sirens, so the music, her wailing, and the sirens all blend together for this insanely intense and anxious opening that is one of the most effective I’ve ever seen
@@Cinnamarollin totally, after the fact I noticed they match even better than her crying. It's fucking insane.
How does someone survive this kind of grief? What would your life be like? I can't imagine losing my ENTIRE family instantly.
It happens in real life. And it kills the survivor too, only differently. they die and have to rebuild a life from scratch.
i don’t know how humans survive anything honestly, fucking hell the grief and pain people go through sometimes. how do they get through
its hell. you dont really survive. you enter a point of stasis.
It kills the soul. You have to start over basically. Your life is literally ruined at that point.
A friend told me that God can never give you more than you can handle. I never thought of it that way, grief has no time stamp, you can spend hundreds of years hurting, but maybe even your last breath you can heal and hurt no more.
I used to cry like that after my mum and dad died too. 8 years later and I don't cry like that anymore. Time does heal.
I'm sorry for your losses. Time heals, but I hope you've been able to fully come to terms with their passing and are feeling better these days
@@kingayy9267 I second that.
So sorry for your losses xx
i'll add that time can heal, but there's no timeline for grief. grief is a constant until it isnt
@Pink Girl so glad you're still here
What I love about the crying is the pause from 2:46 to 2:51. A realistic touch to a visceral cry. When your body gets those very lasts few breaths out of your lungs and you just pause there for a second before gasping for breath again. GOD I've had at least 3 of those cries this year.
Why?
Omg yea that’s like the worst. Feels like you can’t breathe
@@cat3584 cause why not, retard?
you stop crying for a moment and then remember why you’re crying again. and you start crying again.
What's so scary about this scene is how real it feels.
Exactly. I could take the rest of the film easy because it's comparably outlandish. This scene was the monster.
That's probably the point.
Absolutely gut-wrenching. The slow reveal of the scene, the spine-tingling music, and hearing Dani sob and wail like a wounded animal shook me to the core.
This scene hits different when you're familiar with the kind of grief being portrayed...........a few months ago I was sleeping and i was woken up by my moms screaming when she got the news her dad (my grandpa) died........i still hear it so clearly in my head and this scene just brings me back to that night
I hope your mother (and you, of course) is doing better now. Losing a parent is so tough, no matter what age everyone is
A few weeks ago I learned that a friend of mine was killed in a murder-suicide by her husband. I'm still trying to process it, and my mind keeps coming back to this scene, because I called up my mother screaming in the same way Florence does here. This movie shows exactly what it feels like to lose someone so suddenly and violently.
@@definitelynotyourmom42 I'm so so so sorry for your loss.
@@karinamolina668 Thanks. I'm slowly healing, but the grief doesn't ever quite leave
@@definitelynotyourmom42 i’m sorry. i hope you’re doing well.
When I lost my husband suddenly in 2017 I sounded EXACTLY like Dani…I didn’t plan it, couldn’t stop it. It’s the sound you make when you have to escape an unbearable reality that’s all the way inside you now.
I'm sorry that you lost someone you loved so suddenly. :( I know exactly what you mean though, it's like you're crying from the pit of your stomach. I hope you're doing okay.
i sounded the same when i was diagnosed with cancer. i didn’t move for an entire day, i just sat in my bed and cried
Nothing is more devastating.... than agony which can not be soothed. Loneliness with No relief in sight is the most horrifying terror one will ever face.
On a visit to the ER for my grandmother, I once heard screams and crying exactly like this. A woman had just lost her son to an opiod overdose. This is a sound of unimaginable pain and I never want to hear it in real life again. It sounded just like this. Excellent acting, not to mention the attention to detail- like when it zooms into the laptop screen and you see her sister's exploded eye. A well-made masterpiece of a film.
gut-wrenching as her crying is, that dani is crying so viscerally is the healthiest response she can have to this situation. she hasn’t gone numb, she doesn’t turn to denial; in this scene, she lets her grief happen, wholly and undignified. but you see, in christian’s body language as he holds her, *that he’s trying to quiet her*.
he does so passively, while he’s got his arms around her, but the way he’s rocking her, the way his hands are always moving, you can see that he has no idea what to do. because he has no emotional connection with dani and can’t empathize enough with her to share her pain. so he fidgets. he wants her to stop crying as quickly as possible.
not only does this highlight the gravity of their failed relationship, it also lays the groundwork for what’s to come. had christian allowed dani to mourn healthily as she does here, that is, by mourning with her (as the harga do eventually), she probably wouldn’t have gone along on his trip. it’s sort of like the illustration on the fresco in the opening, where christian and dani are walking toward the harga, literally towards his end.
I think he doesn't know what to do but he feels really upset to. He is just in shock. He wasn't directly connected to her family but can empathize. That's a lot to take in.
A good observation. Also, notice how slowly he walks to her apartment, as if he is reluctant to go in. When someone I love has had devastating news like this I can't get to them fast enough. This just shows that while he knows going to comfort her is the right thing to do, his heart isn't in it at all.
@@sevenlines2238 dude you are so up your own butt you're practically inside out.
@@sevenlines2238 hope you don't lean over too far and fall off that pedestal you built for yourself lol
@@sevenlines2238 no, for talking like a self satisfied, smug little trout and looking down your nose at everyone else's opinion lol.
Just the crying and wailing deserves an.oscar nomination
About a year ago, my grandmother pasted away from Alzheimer’s and we were there in her last breathing moments. When she was finally put to rest, my mom just broke wailing hysterically, her cries ringing throughout the hospital. Florence Pugh embodied and executed the pain and grief phenomenally, bringing back that dark memory to mind every time .
When you grieve, and i mean real grief, you wail. You start screaming hysterically and at a babys pattern that you repeat over and pver until you lose your voice.Exactly like a baby. Thats how you distinguish regular sad crying from greif crying.anyone whose been through alot of shit would know exactly what i mean. The real pain crying.
That's definitely the scariest scream I've ever heard
@Slick Grit Productions I want to
I think it's free on Amazon prime
@Slick Grit Productions Okay, I've just seen it. Now I can't say which scream is more disturbing
Watch Hereditary
Can we all agree that the music is the most terrifying thing here?
Tom Richnafsky hell yes. absolutely bone-chilling
YES. it makes the whole scene for me
Everyone keeps talking about Florence Pugh’s acting in this scene (with good reason). But I have to talk about the way they depicted the bodies. Very rarely when I’m watching a movie do I feel like I’m looking at real dead bodies. This was an exception. Her sister’s body is scarier than any zombie, demon or monster in any movie ever.
This is the most extravagant murder suicide setup I think I've ever seen.
Which is why I always suspected it was the cult behind the murders, but I've never seen any direct evidence.
@@Avi-tc2ym I always thought the same thing but could never find a way to connect the two.
the crown of flowers on the nightstand @@isaacfelix3023
it’s weird because there are trash bags under the cracks of her parent’s doorway, so it looks like she was trying not to have them go with her
The hose also leads into their doorway. The bags or tape was to make sure the carbon monoxide didn't leak out. It was to ensure they died.
The way he portrays grief in his movies is SO realistic, it feels (and in some cases sound) exactly like that
Ari Aster is excellent at directing his actors to portray the pain of true grief. Like holy crap how does he do it so much better than others
The parents walls have flowers on them... their ‘tomb’ is the same as danis final dress, the tomb of her old self... also right before when Dani fist calls them and they’re shows in the bed there’s a picture of Dani under two archs of flowers
The details in this movie are insane
I love how Christian is just taking his sweet time going to console his girlfriend. It's like he's taking a walk at the park.
He is probably low key annoyed because now he knows he can't break up with her anytime soon
@Sam Glueck yea Christian was way over his head
And when he the next morning says he's going to a party, I was like "Dude are you fucking serious right now!" After that I did like him.
Put yourself in his shoes, though. His girlfriend’s sister just killed their parents and herself. I wouldn’t want to go home to that either, really. No one would. Even if he wasn’t an emotionless asshole, it’s a traumatic and draining situation to be in the middle of.
@@Kikidy523 it wasn’t the next morning, it was 6+ months later. The movie jumps ahead in time after the opening.
This whole scene was so realistically done that it almost triggered me. Very depressing and hard to watch. =(
same man. and i just smoked a blunt and thought of this somehow. don't really dare click play tho 😂
@Jaris I'm so sorry to hear, I hope you're okay.
@@CH-ls7ye bro 💀💀💀💀💀💀😂
I remember Rob Zombie said something along the lines of like he hated death scenes in movies, he hated how people would say which was their favorite death, he said death was not really like that and I like how they portrayed that grief in this scene
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@@TheNodferatuHonestly I feel like the whole “Death in X movie was my favourite” especially in movies all about romanticising death like Final Destination is more of less a long winding coping mechanism, like how we joke about how trauma and struggles.
I feel like it all boils down to contemplating our own emotions with something and the fact that we can’t just be one emotion about something all the time, it’s not realistic, especially when it comes to fiction.
We’re naturally curious and we also fear the unknown as well as being interested in it.
Ari Aster doing the "grieving woman wailing in anguish" trick again. I think this one was even better than Hereditary.
I don't see it as a trick. That kind of acting is very hard to pull off. But I think Toni Colette did a better job in displaying real grief.
Toni Colette’s wails still fuck me up, so I’d say she did a better job.
Why do guys have the childish urge to make everything into a competition? Both actresses did an equally good job, and both screams were absolutely harrowing. Zero reason to rank them.
Box0rz you diluted a normal conversation about comparing acting talent into a topic of immaturity and sexism. I think it’s safe to say your opinions aren’t valid in this subject. Of course there’s a reason to rank them. Why the fuck do you think awards for acting exist?
Milksteak Because people on the internet feel the urge to rank absolutely everything which just creates conflict and arguments. It’s really annoying sometimes. And nothing about sexism in my comment.
Dude hearing her painful cry is so heart breaking, I’ve watched it so many times and still cry hearing it. Never seen any actor or actress bring it to life so well
Even after the tragedy she had just experienced, she still remained the most sane out of them 5 and the most humane out of those "anthropologists".
I think Josh was pretty sane
@@SuperMiIk not completely dude went into the temple to to click photos of the book when an elder told him absolutely not to and he also didn't question where mark, Connie and Simon went so in the end really the only one sane was Dani
@@angela-dm7vo lmaoo they planned tge whole thing, they purposely told josh not to take pictures cause they knew he would go and do that, they planned the whole thing from the beginning
@@angela-dm7vo Connie and Simon were pretty normal
Wait, wasn't she the one that turned insane in the end?
I still haven't gotten over this scene. Losing a family member is awful, but losing all of them at once - the human heart was not made to deal with that.
I would just love to have been a fly on the wall what, if any, direction Ari Aster gave Florence Pugh before this scene cos her wailing just felt so raw and genuine, her performance in this film is fucking incredible.
If Florence gets Oscar nom for little woman over this I’ll be sooooo mad.
Just be glad she gets nom'd for anything after being ignored for Lady MacBeth
@@looney1023 She wasn't ignored for Lady Macbeth. She won a BIFA for that film, which is just as valuable.
She will get a nod for Little Women and not this because The Academy are a bunch of Genre picky assholes who look for Drama performances and overlook Genre performances. Look at Toni Collette last year. And the same is going to happen to poor Lupita from US. Florence Pugh and Lupita Nyong'o gave the best performances this year and they will sadly be overlooked because the academy chooses Drama over Genre.
Not the same category
Whelp 🙃
I'm both amazed and disturbed with her acting here. It's a scene that I occasionally go back to, yet I'm always reminded that someday, this will be us. Whether it's the loss of a parent, spouse, sibling, friend, or godforbid, a child. Is part of the human experience. At some point, we will all have to face a moment like this.
Oscar for her. Literally.
@Jeric White yep
Sorry, but as much as I want her too, if Toni didnt get one for hereditary, than Florence isn't gonna get one D:
This opening scene is the most beautiful and horrifying scene I have ever watched in my entire life. The violens, the camera shots, the pure, agonising crying from grief. This is the finest scene I have ever laid my eyes on and it is heartbreaking.
I went into this movie without knowing about this scene, and this was during a time when I lost four loved ones within a span of two months. Needless to say, this scene really hit me hard because I can really empathize with Dani's despair in this scene because it's almost like how I felt. The only difference is I still have a support system to support me through my grieving process, but Dani had no one. Her boyfriend was emotionally unavailable, his friends were douchebags, and while the cult pretended to care about Dani, they're really just manipulating her into joining them. In the end, Dani was all alone.
I would recommend watching hereditary if you liked this movie, it has the same director I believe
@@RadCat_Studios Yeah, I saw that before Midsommar. Great film, but I honestly prefer Midsommar a bit more.
this scene gave me chills, the violins, the build-up of the music, and her crying. it was all so amazing, yet so disturbing.
Ok.
Before I thought Dani was doing a bit extra with the crying and wailing but. But. Last night somebody got killed down the street from me and this lady found his body outside on her driveway and oh my god. Oh my god. Sounded just like her. I have never heard screaming and crying like that before until last night.
So I just came back to say:
She should’ve won an Oscar for just this scene alone. She honestly real life portrayed grief, trauma, sadness and utter disbelief in this scene alone. I don’t know how you could just do that without any type of real stimulation.
I am not lying when I say that Dani sounded just like the lady from last night.
I was present when my grandma died, she had cancer for 2 years before succumbing, on her bed, surrounded by family. My grandpa was quietly crying when we realized it was happening but after her last breath he started wailing, literally screaming for her. My heart broke twice that day, for saying goodbye to her and seeing his pain, it's really not exaggerated 😞 I usually have that memory stored away in the farthest part of my brain, it was among the most painful things I've seen.
@@PolliitoAle Yup. My grandpa died when I was 10 and my grandma was wailing and screaming for him. Genuinely one of the most heartbreaking things I’d experienced :(
You are lucky, I've had to hear a few family members crying exactly like this at funerals, truly one of the worst sounds you can hear.
When I saw this with my wife in the theater I got nauseated at this scene. This film was one of the most trippy and fantastic experiences I've had in a movie theater.
Best intro ever. Glad to witness it in theaters. Best intro ever next to Heat, Gravity, Sicario, and Dawn of The Dead (2004)
I wish I could have seen this in cinemas. One of the most beautiful films ever!
@@mohq9573 no i wouldn't say that... The film was a 7 outta 10 imo.
@Cult Mechanicus laughed at what though? Some giggles but that's about it. I'd give it a 7.2/10
Watchmen (2009) has an amazing intro as well…you should check it out!
@@armandorubio456 it is epic, oh trust me I know. That bass drop when Blake gets thrown thru the window
Jesus christ her cries are absolutely haunting.
Her crying makes me want to cry. A human knows when theyre being lied to, when the crying is fake, and we feel nothing. Her grief acting in the movie was just so so real and good.
This is by far my favorite title sequence. It just sets the tone for what we’re getting into. Absolutely amazing film.
Danny’s cries of distress were chilling. The acting was so spot on and realistic.
i feel like the violins both sound like her wailing and the sirens
Play this and the Hereditary scene of Annie crying about her daughter Charlie together. I'll just wanna warn you, you will be absolutely horrified.
no fucking thank you fuck you
honestly the scene from hereditary, made me have to turn it off. I couldn't even watch it
@@victoriamahringer hereditary sucked
No I’m good
@@allessandmegchannel it didn't. I think It's even better than this one, and I don't like possession movies.
*The traumatic crying tightens up my throat and gets me teary eyed - Florence’s acting is INCREDIBLE. Both Midsommar and Hereditary are so unsettling!*
Ari Aster seems to have started a theme with making these talented women do the most disturbing and raw crying scenes and can't say i'm upset about it. Toni Collette and Florence Pugh's grieving scenes in Hereditary and Midsommar aren't like anything I've ever seen or heard in a movie before. Insane.
I love this scene, probably one of my favorite scenes in any movie (not saying other stuff in this movie isn’t better, I love everything about this movie). All the sounds, her insanely good acting, oh my god. I love how this event in their relationship seals them together, like he can’t just leave her like this. They were doomed from this. I’m obsessed with the music, cinematography, story, and acting of this movie, my god
CW: suicide.
I don’t know if Ari Aster will ever see this, but I certainly hope that this means something to him or to the people who made this movie who might see this comment as well: watching this movie alone in theaters and experiencing those opening scenes is one of the big reasons I choose to stay alive every. single. day - I could never do that to the people I love.
The thing that terrifies me the most in this scene isn’t the music, it’s the atmosphere. The emergency personnel showing up and turning off the cars, the tubes going up the stairs and into the parents room, and of course the slow camera shot of Terri, bloodshot gazing eyes with homemade suicide mask attached to her face. Not to mention the fact that the entire house is pitch black while it’s going. Seriously, this is pretty much what you would think a murder suicide would be and look like. It also left me with some questions, 1. How did Terri know how to set up those tubes so accurately and 2. Why did she keep her door wide open instead of closing it like her parents. Still, this scene is petrifying in every possible way
To answer your question she closed her parents door and sealed the bottom so the carbon monoxide couldn’t escape. She left her own door open because she chose to tape the hose to her face so it didn’t matter if her door was open or closed. She wanted to kill her parents while they slept so that’s why she closed their door and piped the exhaust in the room so they wouldn’t know.
She had no reason to close the door the pipe was directly to her mouth.
@@DANBSTL24 Right. That's why I thought it was a cult that killed her and the family
The door was probably left open for the sole purpose of the zoom-in shot, or it didn’t matter since she had a makeshift mask on anyway
@@DANBSTL24 she could've just started the car and left the doors open
Just one word: AMAZING. Thank you Florence Pugh ♥️
She looks like chloe grace moretz
She deserves every acting award in the world. She's spectacular.
She should've gotten an Oscar nomination for Midsommar just as much as she got one for Little Women which came out the same year. But, you know how the Academy rolls...they don't like horror movies.
Geezus! She’s just AMAZING. My mom just died and I didn’t cry like that. She really gets into her character.
florence pugh did an amazing job in this scene. i physically cannot rewatch this without crying. her wails are gut wrenching and truly heartbreaking
This scene is so demented and cruel. There's just something particularly horrific about being murdered by someone who is mentally ill. There's no rational reason for it. It's just senseless and disturbing. I feel so bad for Dani. She knows something is terribly wrong, but she's powerless to do anything about it. Its a perfect nightmare.
Florence is one hell of an actress.
Midsommar is one of my favorite films, and I cry during this scene every single time. I feel so much of Dani's character within myself- and not just the grief part.
When I lost my Dad in 2020, I wailed and fell to the floor the same way. People rushing you to grieve and not being supportive while you're in a 24/7 stupor trying to numb the pain with medication. I was impressionable and vulnerable, and still am.
Unlike Christian, my fiance was there night and day, but as for 80% of my other friends, they were all a bunch of Christians... I think that's why I commiserate with Dani's character so much.
@@dootdoot94xo44 woooooosh
I can't believe my friend thought Florence Pugh "didn't do that good" in this movie because he didn't like the tone of it. He said he first accepted her as a good actress when we saw Fighting With My Family.
This is pretty much exactly how Ari wrote it in the script. Amazing
Hearing this type of pain in real life will forever change you. It's a pain that is terrifying to contemplate, which is why it works so well in this movie.
Pugh's acting in this opening alone was top notch. It's rare for a person to act out crying so damn realistically.
i felt physically sick after watching this scene, and i wondered if there was that audio that makes people feel sick somehow laced into the violin. nope. just pure talent.
I mean, partiality. The main droning of the violin is an incredibly dissonant tone. It's a half step modulation and that is the most dissonant interval that can be recognized in music theory. Its very ugly(in a good way) and really plays on your fight or flight. Not go go full music nerd, but I think this scene would not have had as extreme of a physical reaction without such a fantastic score.
As soon as those drums start around 2:52, I got chills when I was in the theater. I also LOVED the music because it reminds me a lot of FLYING LOTUS' "Fire is Coming"... ("There's a fire in the street, everybody move your feet. There's a fire in the street, everybody move your feet").
the opening notes mimic emergancy sirens
my tears fall when I started to hear her crying.. traumatic. amazing acting
Look how it goes to the next scene at the last second here. It’s even more crushing than her screams. Because when someone you care about dies, especially when it’s someone in your personal world rather than a celeb, life seems like it suddenly stops caring and goes on like nothing happened after a certain amount of time and leaves the mourner in the dust. Even just that can make a mourner have some really ugly thoughts because that feels like an insult when someone meant so much to them and the world carries on just because they didn’t know this person.
best opening scene I've ever seen
It certainly sets the scene pitch black
For me what makes this scene so terrifying is how mundane and plausible it is. It's not a supernatural monster, a serial killer or some unlikely scenario: it's something that could possibly happen to any of us.
2:06 real acting.
Such a magnificent score!
This scene and Hereditary scene when *spoiler* Annie (Toni Collette, amazing actress) founds the body of her daughter and starts crying/screaming... Dear Ari Aster, how do you do it??
She is so damn good. She deserves an award.
She is playing the sister of Black Widow. Can't wait to watch.
the music is by far the greatest part about this scene. the long, single note instantly triggers a gut feeling in the viewer that something horrible has happened. i went into this movie completely blind (courtesy of my friend, will never forgive her) and i was shaking as soon as i heard the song playing.
Of course you were shaking. You’re a a lil ‘ incel😂😂.
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She is an excellent actress.... This scene was so realistic
I remember the crying part was really loud in the cinema I watched it in, when it first came out a couple years back. It was so haunting and in your face. Not to mention this whole part of the opening scene. And seeing this clip again just made me get chills. That’s raw emotion right there. Not just tears and a frown - real raw grief. I’m sure a lot of us have heard these types of wails at funerals by those that lost their loved ones, or us, that have lost our loved ones.
i remember my first time watching this and i was iffy about it but damn, just the cinematography and the use of music/sound and her wailing cries i was instantly hooked. i never felt that about a movie so fast.
this scene was exquisite. I have never winced harder in a horror movie... no amount of body horror can evoke the kind of reaction that Ari Aster has been able to get from me - for me personally at least. I've never been simultaneously sick to my stomach and had chills. I hope Aster makes movies for a long, long time.
Good God this is the kind of real crying you hear at actual funerals. That plus the music is soooo disturbing but really speaks to the skills of Florence Pugh
Honestly? This is the most haunting scene I've ever witnessed. Hereditary's big tragedy was well done in terms of acting, but the whole situation lacked realism... This scene lacks nothing, and the sheer trauma directly on display. Jesus
The Realistic Cry of Agony and Loss, the Score in the background, the tone. This Movie gives me absolute CHILLS!!! Amazing Movie and Amazing Acting!
Look at the sublime cinematography of this scene. Aster use uses a reverse construction to what is normally seen: first of all we hear the scream of Dani, preamble of what is going to happen. Tension building is masterful: we hear the scream, we don't know what happened, but we know something horrible has happened. Then this beautiful sequence-shot: no tight or frenetic editing, but slow framing. No jumpscare.
This is what real horror looks like.
Ok so as a Swede I've had very mixed feelings about this movie ever since I first saw the trailer BUT-
This scene is genuinely horrifying and I gotta applaud the actors and the rest of the crew for their work on it.
One of my favorite films ever. Truly an artistic and horrific masterpiece. Every element, a shot, everything. Also one of the best movie representations of anxiety and trauma I have yet to see.
Had to job shadow an ER once, this scene sends chills down my spine Everytime, because the wailing is so god damn real. I’ve listened to a mother break down as her child passed in the room we were attending to him in, and I get flashbacks when I see this scene
I'm still haunted by this. The grinding, gnawing music. The camera work. The wild, horrible sobs. Wow.
The color grading as well
her crying is the exact kind of hysterical grief crying I've heard at funerals. truly one of the best actresses currently working
What is this girl even doing… give her an Oscar now because it’s just unbelievable how great actress she is.
Florence Pugh was nominated for "Little Women" which came out the same year and it fit the Academy's view of what deserves Oscar nominations. Hot take but Pugh gave the stronger performance in Midsommar and should've been nominated for this too.
I felt the true pain and grief this scene evokes, and started crying in theater. Masterful cinema, masterful directing, and masterful acting, couldn't ask for more. And this was just the first minutes of the movie.
The great thing about both this, and Toni Collette crying in Hereditary when she learns what happened to her daughter, are SO gut-wrenching because she and Pugh are so convincing you feel what they are feeling
I received a call 2 months ago from my parents walking into my sister’s apartment and finding that she had taken her life. This was my exact reaction as my girlfriend held me. This scene is insanely real and so heartfelt.
Without a doubt the most emotionally horrifying segue into opening credits ever ever ever
this sequence is pure delight.... from the soundtrack to Florence Pugh's cry... This is ART!
this scene chilled me to the bone, ari aster is going to be a seriously big name in horror in the coming years. hereditary was a gem as well.
The fact that she took the parents down with her is just cruel..