The actor who plays Christian said shooting that last scene in that bear suit was actually terrifying to do. Poor guy 😂😂 this is one of my favorite horror movies of all time
The night scene where the young boy is almost drowned, which was left out of the theatrical version, solidifies that the Harga are focusing more on Dani, that Connie was later killed by drowning, and that Christian really is an irredeemable a-hole!
I first watched the theatrical version, then later watched the director's cut. This scene, to me, felt like a kind of test for Dani, like they were waiting to see how she would react this time, and based on the fact that she *did* react "the right way" (she did say "Stop!" and was moving as if trying to stop them from drowning the boy), that helped solidify their decision to take Dani as one of their own.
As a Swede I love this film, its so well researched! The painting of a bear and a blonde girl over Dani's bed isn't just foreshadowing, it's a very well recognised work by Swedish classical artist John Bauer. The girls walking backwards picking flowers is from a superstition. It looks different in different parts of Sweden, but basically if you pick 7 flowers and put them under your pillow on midsummer eve, you will dream of the man you will marry. Putting scissors in the baby's cot is also superstition. It's believed that iron wards off fairy folk who would want to steal away the baby and switch it with a changeling. Ättestupa was mentioned in viking texts. If someone lived long enough to be a burden they had the option to jump off a cliff and still have an honourable death. Likewise, the blood eagle is also from viking times. They'd open up the victim's spine and pull out the lungs while the person was still alive. The music, clothes, art is all very similar to our folk culture, and the dancing around the maypole is traditional. The dance until you die comes from a folksong called Hårgalåten, in which the devil dresses as a fiddler and makes all the young dance until they die. Also giving name to the commune, Hårga. Honestly, the least authentic part is the nature around the commune, it wasn't filmed in Sweden and it shows.
In that crying scene at the end, with all girls together, the ones already in the cult are not wailing with her or comforting her. They are mimicking her and controling the rhythm of her cries. This control over the rhythm can be used to put you in a suggestible state of mind and even control your emotions.
I don't think so. I think it's part of the "intense empathy" the other cultist also show when people are in pain. They wail, scream, "dance" and do those body movements in the end as well to empathize with the dying process.
Florence is a force of nature. I know the break up, end of a toxic relationship, is the main theme... but I feel like Ari manipulated us (just like Dani) to think the cult is "good" for her. At the end she seemed the happiest but her sanity was gone, like she accepted the nonsense of it all to live a better (fake) life. Cults members usually go after vulnerable people and make them feel like family. That's how I see the movie anyway lol Great reaction as always ❤
I've said this a million times and I'll say it a million times more, Florence Pugh should've at least gotten an Oscar nomination for "Midsommar" just as much as she should've for the movie she was nominated for in 2019, "Little Woman". She was excellent in "Little Women", that I am not arguing. But, there was something more raw in Pugh's performance in "Midsommar" that should've received recognition by the Academy. But, you know how they roll. They hate horror movies and so performances like this and Toni Collette in "Hereditary" (which I'm still mad about) go unrecognized by them.
The main theme is not break up from a toxic relationship.... not even close... it tries to focus on it, but this whole movie's theme is much deeper than that and it is very prominent that the theme is way more than just a bad toxic relationship.... and also if you notice from the very beginnings of everything, Dani was the only one they all were actually accepting to participate in most of everything... they made her feel welcome.
@@jbvader721 true. Florence and Toni were amazing. I don't care much about Oscars, its not only based on talent and performances, but yeah... they should've won awards for the movies.
The most frightening thing about this film is that it demonstrates how effective the cult's techniques are, because it's almost like we're being indoctrinated too. So many people end this film thinking that it's a happy ending (and I felt that way too the first time I watched it), but it's not until you stop and really think about it that you realise how bleak the situation really is. Dani's just swapped out one toxic relationship for another one, albeit one that seems more supportive and emotionally available, and once you realise that, you see that there's no happy ending waiting for Dani in the future
@@christianwise637 exactly. And that's why I believe Ari manipulated us, because most people will buy the community empathy that Dani needs (and will never have with Christian), and forget their weird intentions and behavior. The focus is the bad relationship with Christian and the fact Dani should have any love. When asked if the movie had a happy ending Ari laughed, then stopped and explained it is a break up movie he wrote during his own breakup. I do believe he tricked the audience, like Dani was tricked to believe everything she needed was harga. Her final smile scares me, like she was completely brainwashed... gone. But yeah... leaving a toxic relationship for another one.
At 46:19 - Being burned alive in the bear is a Viking torture. The fats drip out and the hide shrinks, so it's not clear which will kill him first - the burning, the smoke inhalation, or the being crushed by the shrinking bear-suit.
Amazing director, i love directors that know real horror isnt just cheap jumpscares but is actually a primal fear that existed since millenia..being jumpscared by a squirrel flying at your face while screaming isnt being afraid..what dany was experiencing while trying to call her family is real fear, or even the feeling of heart palpitating anxiety while waiting for something to come out at you from the dark is real fear, it doesnt even need a jumpscare, the jumpscare is the finishing touch (if its a good jumpscare that was done after building up a scene).
Ugh...I know pelle is a murderous, manipulative psychopath, but when he delivered that "do you feel held by him? " line I was ready to stuff someone into a bear.
in the beginning of the movie while Christian and the rest are together Pelle says to Christian "don't forget about all the swedish woman you're gonna impregnate in june". my jaw fucking dropped while i saw this scene the second time.
Boby Krlic did am AMAZING job with the score on this film, especially the opening and closing scenes! Dark music for the sad, depressing night time scene, Light music for cheerful, happy summer gathering daytime scene.
I’m so delighted you guys had an appreciation for this movie. I think it’s a masterpiece and most reactions I’ve seen to this are very negative. It’s cool how much you guys picked up on and I thought your commentary was insightful. Thank you for sharing! I am subscribed 😊
I watched the original Theatrical Cut of this film and was so amazed by it that I immediately watched the Director's Cut mere minutes later. A masterpiece. Great reaction!
That not true, pelle shows Dani a picture of last years may queen at the start of the movie. Also it's mentioned that they do it every year. The whole sacrifices thing is a 90 year thing.
The only thing cold from her original family was the sister. We don't know anything about the original family, but this "new" one isn't, it's a cult. Pelle manipulated Dani into all of this, like cult members do - they target the vulnerable and weak.
@@SerafiniAGaunt No. For sure. We don’t know what happens to the May queens either. But we do get several clues about Dani’s posthumous family. One of them being that her family didn’t openly show emotion or communicate. That’s one of the reasons the weeping mirroring scene was so pivotal for her character. A group not only validating her feelings but expressing them with her. I don’t think she ends in up in a good family, but completely understand the smile at the end as she finally lets go of her previous life.
@@jeffwilliams2828 I understand it, but not from a place of sympathy. I only see someone who was manipulated into their "family" because she was an easy target. The joined crying that they do was actually nothing more than another indoctrination tactic - if you noticed, they surrounded her so that they'd be the only thing she'd see, started mimicking her, and then they made it so that she'd be mimicking them. It's very subtle and very sneaky. The closest thing we get to Dani being able to process her emotions with someone else is Pelle, but even he only lets her do so to a certain extent before trying to sneakily manipulate her. It's a very scary tactic.
I watched this movie threetimes in a row to see all the details I missed. You can see in the beginning pictures an the wall in Danis apartment with the bear and the pictures in the sleeping hall show what is going to happen. After Dani becomes May queen the people took her through the nature while she is standing on the wood board you can see faces of her family in the trees! I love this movie because it is always daytime but mindf*ck all the time. Greetings from Germany❤
I hope y’all react to Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid too if you haven’t seen it yet. Ari Aster is one of my favorite up & coming directors. He hasn’t missed at all in my opinion, he keep making new instant classics left & right from Hereditary to Midsommar to Beau Is Afraid. Ari Aster even got praise for Beau Is Afraid from legendary director Martin Scorsese who is literally one of the greatest storytellers to ever Grace the movie industry. If Martin praises your work then you just know that you’ve done something right.
That's cool lol. I had put my tablet down to do something but still watching but the screen didn't flip so you guys was upside down and it just happens to be on the part where they have that shot where they're driving upside down and the road and sky is flipped lol but with the screen not flipping that shot was up right normal and you guys watching it was upside down lol. Funny watching moment lol.
Many thanks to Robert & Vanessa! 😱 As you both noted, despite the horrificness in this tale... it has a twistedly happy ending. 'Dani' lost her whole family at the beginning, had a rotten, selfish boyfriend... and it ended with her accepted into a new family that treasures her. Her smile said it all. Those traditions, by the way, were actually practiced by some ancient Nordic cultures. Perhaps that's Aster's starting off point; what if those ceremonies survived to present day in secret? It's a masterpiece, in my opinion! #LateToTheParty #AriAster #Midsommar
"Actually practiced by some ancient Norse cultures." Not really... stuff like the sex magic stuff were practiced, but all evidence we have of it is from the Christian or early modern periods... what sexual magic we know of from the ancient Norse was very different and more ritual, less charms and spells... human sacrifice was a thing... but very rare, not regular and ritualized like in the film, and very different when it happened... most sacrifice was animals, and they were actually eaten by the community after being sacrificed.. the exceptions were burials for people especially beloved by the community, who would be buried with intact sacrificed animals sometimes... burning was generally used for cremation for most people who weren't given the honour of that kind of ritual burial... some of the Midsommer stuff is more modern Swedish traditions, not ancient ones... the blood eagle is a thing in ancient stories, but it's there is disagreement if it ever actually happened, and if it did it was more of a "something some guys did to someone once" rather than a tradition.
At 47:51 - I'm not sure that Dani found what she wanted, but the emotional hits kept coming, so she is having a psychotic break. She is nuts, and she is in great danger. Everyone she knew from her grad school situation are dead and gone. Her family is dead and gone. She is at the mercy of these people who have decided, "You are the family, yes?" I don't think that is a happy smile, but a broken smile.
There's a lot of good Folk Horror films. Hereditary counts as one, along with Midsommar. Any film to do with cultish rites and a natural setting, really. A Field in England, The Witch, Children of the Corn, The Ritual, and The Company of Wolves are great titles in this genre, too.
Thanks for the recommendations. We already reacted to Hereditary on our channel. We'll add the others to the list. Except for The Witch, because we've already seen it.
At 27:44 - There are so many things going on, we almost missed it. Pelle was picking plants in the foreground, and people in the background had put the ashes from the elders on the tree. For an anthropology student, Mark is ridiculously ignorant. So... We watched the ashes being put on the tree, and Mark peed on the tree. Mark was in the wrong. Probably not wrong enough for what will happen to him...
At 20:23 - "Almost, like, put her in a state of calm..." Dani is not calm. She is in shock. She is still deep in mourning for her family, the suicide-homicide of her sister and parents. For these people to commit suicide... Dani is panicking and can't think of what else is going on around her.
And after Halloween you can watch "Beau Is Afraid" (also by Ari Aster), a very VERY different and unusual movie that I'd be curious to see your reaction to as well. ^^ (it's pretty long tho, just a heads-up)
This movie is so good! I forgot how much the boyfriend sucks from the very beginning so by then you are like YES BURRNNNNN. Also, Florence Pugh is the literal GOAT.
Thanks for reviewing this great film (director's cut, too). I recommend you watch the old version of The Wicker Man with Christopher Lee. I used to date a Swedish guy in Orlando, FL and celebrated Midsommar with him at his friend's house on the water. There was a fairly large Swedish community back in the day. Sad to say, there were no sacrifice, human or animal (kidding) but we did dance around the maypole (no one was crowned a May queen). Great food and lots of drinking! I believe Swedes are amused with Midsommar depicting them as...cult murderers. 😄
At 45:10 - "What is going on with their families back home?" As we've seen from Dani, I'm not sure that they HAVE families back home. Remember Simon and Connie from London? Ingmar was going to marry them. I'm guessing that their families, like Dani, are either non-existent or simply not important. In short... Besides the Harga, the people taking part in this 90-year festival are all unconnected to the outside world. Besides Dani, they are anthropology PhD candidates, who might travel for who knows how long. No one is looking for them. No one seems to care. They are the perfect victims for this cult.
Ari Aster's cinema is a cinema of manipulation. I love how he leads us to think that this ending is a good, happy ending for Dani, using all the clichés from various horror subgenres like the slasher (the Joker, the donkey, the student) to make us hate the male characters and commemorate their deaths, making us part of that cult by considering the murder of innocents something common. All this one-sidedness of the male characters is on purpose so that we are in Dani's shoes when they die, and thus celebrate the end she had. This is far from a happy ending. Dani lost her family and was in a toxic relationship, and in the end she ends up finding her "family" but not in a loving and spontaneous way. The fact that everything was orchestrated so that she would be the May Queen only proves how great this film is at commenting on religious indoctrination and manipulation, especially the fact that Aster makes us feel happy that Dani has found her "family". The community is as toxic as Christian, but Aster works too well for us to consider this a happy ending. Dani is completely crazy at the end and I love how Aster cuts it off and doesn't let us know if she actually chose Christian for the sacrifice. The cult was in charge from the beginning. There is no happy ending in Midsommar. Just like the infinite light of the sun, the film manipulates very well and makes us feel like we are in the shoes of a person who is dragged into a cult. A subtle masterpiece. Brilliant reaction, it's one of the best about this film here on RUclips! I love you!
"She's happy? She made it out?" Dude, she's in a cult that won't let her leave. She was high as hell when she smiled at the end. She is not happy. She's in a worse predicament than any of the other characters. It's one of the most devastating endings ever.
She will live a life of simplicity amongst people who love her. Also, who said she can't leave? Others leave all the time. She is in no danger. Plus nobody else will be in danger for another 90 years. She will be dead and gone by that time. Great ending. 👍
I think you missed the point that she's high. Do you think that everyone in the CULT will enjoy when Dani sobers up and has the realization of what she took part in with killing her boyfriend, although he was shit, stayed by her side and was drugged, raped into sleeping with an underaged girl who was groomed into doing so? She's gonna flip out, and they're gonna kill her. They only let people leave who fully drink kool-aid. She smiled at the end because she had a psychotic break from the horror. Also, they don't love her. They needed more numbers and mentally damaged people. She was simply a mark.@@LatetotheParty
@@LatetotheParty I'm not so sure about that. All we know of the cult revolved around this particular time and the customs around it. I think it's a cult, or a commune with very cultish vibes. I think that feeling happy for her in the end is the ultimate trick of the movie. I feel like anyone who feels like she got the happy ending here was indoctrinated themselves in away.
The movie is literally about breaking up with a toxic relationship. Per the creators. She found people who are empathetic to her experience. People who were open to knowing her life. And she Chose to go along with it all.
@@PuentesRE I don't think they were displaying true empathy. It was always driven by an agenda. Making someone feel heard and acknowledged can both be a mark of respect and a weapon to make someone more malleable to you. This is how cults get people. If someone is dealing with a trauma they feel like they can't share with anyone they might pick the perfect stranger to offload onto before they really get to know the stranger and realize they're not so perfect after all.
Awesome movies he does lol. Cool shirt lol. Yayyyyy Dani did awesome job in this lol. Very pretty scenery and clothes in this lol. So many pretty flowers and tapestries lol. Crazy beginning poor Dani reminds me of Halloween a bit especially when people say Michael motivation was to kill his family but he only killed his sister if he was after his family like that wouldn't he have did something like this lol. Did nothing to parents and according to sequels I guess he forgot his sister til she visited him then he's like ill wait fifteen years then ill get her lol. Whatever happened to the parents lol.
Its funny you say that cause in this cur there's A extra scene where Dani points out what you saying they all fools lol. He'll yeah Florence never a fool lol.
I'm doing that breathing thing now like the clucking in hereditary lol. Yeah mate with mia lol. She looks nice but I'd rather stick with Dani Florence lol.
Some people thought this movie had a happy ending. ?? It most definitely did not. Not only is Dani now an accomplice to murder but she has completely lost her mind. She lost everything and everyone and has now joined a murderous cult. She will likely take part in whatever deranged rituals they have in the future and will do what those two people did on the cliff once she reaches that age. It's not a happy ending. It's dark and heartbreaking. Her boyfriend and his friends sucked but they didn't deserve that.
It DOES have a happy ending albeit a darkly twisted one not unlike Eggers’ THE WITCH (2015). Dani, like Pelle in the movie who tragically lost his parents in a fire, now has a family that will support and carry her through her grief which was all but consuming her life.
It's a deceptive ending. We're glad for Dani finding comfort and community, but at the same we know that she's been targeted, drugged, and brainwashed by a cult. The beauty of the film's setting belies the truth of what's happening to the characters. We don't like most of them, but they're still better people than the murderous Harga.
This movie doesn’t have a happy ending. Ari aster gets confused about people thinking Dani got a happy ending just because she’s smiling. It’s worth the while to look up some ending explanations or Ari interviews to really get it. It’s also trippy watching ‘everything you missed’ videos because they’ll point out things like Dani’s sister has masked face being made out of the trees and bushes in the distance as she’s being carried in the platform after winning may Queen and you’re like, Ari HAD to know no one would catch that on their own lol
That's why people don't like this one as much as hereditary cause you don't really care about these people and this one is more of a slasher with bunch of dum decisions lol. Fools lol. But I like demi more than dude in hereditary lol. More beautiful scene try clothing more beautiful shots in this than hereidtary lol. I'm happy for Dani lol. Lots of awesome shots in this lol. Still love hereditary but that's like night and this is day lol each movie are does is awesome lol. Cooler opening in this one I think lol
31:16 I'm kinda sad you guys didn't notice the reddish drink the boyfriend has in comparison to the other yellow ones, that's the blood from the drawings since you're the most observant reactors I know
I love how the ending is the definition of a deceptive happy ending. I can see how you guys think it is a happy ending for Dani, considering that by the end, she is technically "happy" and feels loved by a group. But overall its definitely NOT a happy ending ha ha. She was emotionally manipulated into being apart of a murderous cult that killed five people.
yeaaaaaah, I didn’t not think it was a “happy ending” for Dani. to be a delusional part of a crazy ass cult is not exactly what you want for a person 🙊
That ending wasn't very happy. I think the whole movie is a way of showing how easy it is to compartmentalize atrocities for the sake of belonging thus indoctrinating anyone who thought she got a good thing out of the cult by end.
I’m so conflicted about Christian because he didn’t want to be in the relationship and he would’ve ended it if it wasn’t for her family’s death. Dani kept pushing to be in it even though she knew he wasn’t into her anymore. People always paint him as a POS, which he is in parts, I’m not defending him, but she kept pushing to be in a crappy relationship that she knew wasn’t working. Dani is no victim here. And she made me quietly mutter “F you” during the final shot at the movie theater because people like that are also the problem. Everyone needs to watch this a second time and pay attention at how Dani accepted her situation with Christian. There were a couple times where the door opened for her to finally confront him but she always said, “It’s okay. It’s fine” which was her also accepting her situation with him.
@@zuhnaiya yes, pay attention to her. It takes two to tango. He’s definitely awful and I can see how everyone sees him as the only guilty one in the relationship but she volunteers herself to the misery of her relationship. He said she was too clingy. The clues are right there. They both sucked at making good decisions. She basically guilted him into inviting her. She was definitely dysfunctional too. No one is responsible for the others happiness. That’s codependency. Dani shows it. All the times he was an ahole and she still kept him. Who’s at fault for that part, ha?
Looks like you were too busy making hair pie jokes and completely missed the fact that Christian's drink was decidedly more orange and darker than everyone else's
@@LatetotheParty Wasn't trying to be a smart arse. Just pointing something out that you seemed to have overlooked while commenting on/reacting to something else. There's no need to be a sarcastic dick about it
It's kinda sad that americans, even when researching a country can't get it right. "Yoddeling".. that's SWITZERLAND. Get it right ffs, Sweden, Switzerland. They don't even sound alike. Chocolate is Switzerland, Yoddeling is Switzerland. IKEA is Sweden, ABBA is Sweden, Spotify is Sweden etc etc etc.
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The actor who plays Christian said shooting that last scene in that bear suit was actually terrifying to do. Poor guy 😂😂 this is one of my favorite horror movies of all time
They cut his legs for putting in the bear
The night scene where the young boy is almost drowned, which was left out of the theatrical version, solidifies that the Harga are focusing more on Dani, that Connie was later killed by drowning, and that Christian really is an irredeemable a-hole!
Yea, this is actually the first time I see the full version reaction on YT.
I first watched the theatrical version, then later watched the director's cut.
This scene, to me, felt like a kind of test for Dani, like they were waiting to see how she would react this time, and based on the fact that she *did* react "the right way" (she did say "Stop!" and was moving as if trying to stop them from drowning the boy), that helped solidify their decision to take Dani as one of their own.
I’m so mad they got rid of if
Wow I’ve never seen this version!
As a Swede I love this film, its so well researched!
The painting of a bear and a blonde girl over Dani's bed isn't just foreshadowing, it's a very well recognised work by Swedish classical artist John Bauer.
The girls walking backwards picking flowers is from a superstition. It looks different in different parts of Sweden, but basically if you pick 7 flowers and put them under your pillow on midsummer eve, you will dream of the man you will marry.
Putting scissors in the baby's cot is also superstition. It's believed that iron wards off fairy folk who would want to steal away the baby and switch it with a changeling.
Ättestupa was mentioned in viking texts. If someone lived long enough to be a burden they had the option to jump off a cliff and still have an honourable death.
Likewise, the blood eagle is also from viking times. They'd open up the victim's spine and pull out the lungs while the person was still alive.
The music, clothes, art is all very similar to our folk culture, and the dancing around the maypole is traditional. The dance until you die comes from a folksong called Hårgalåten, in which the devil dresses as a fiddler and makes all the young dance until they die. Also giving name to the commune, Hårga.
Honestly, the least authentic part is the nature around the commune, it wasn't filmed in Sweden and it shows.
Ah, thank you for your comment, we appreciate understanding the context of the content that was shown in the movie more. :)
Awful movie.
@@AutoAlligator 🤣 Sure.
That's also why only the neonazi look up to the vikings.
Have you left a very similar comment on another RUclipsr's reaction to this movie or am I hallucinating? lmao.
Filmmaker Ari Aster seems dedicated to creating experiences that are difficult to forget and he accomplishes that.
He certainly has his own style and vision, will be one of the GOAT's eventually.
In that crying scene at the end, with all girls together, the ones already in the cult are not wailing with her or comforting her. They are mimicking her and controling the rhythm of her cries. This control over the rhythm can be used to put you in a suggestible state of mind and even control your emotions.
I don't think so. I think it's part of the "intense empathy" the other cultist also show when people are in pain. They wail, scream, "dance" and do those body movements in the end as well to empathize with the dying process.
Florence is a force of nature.
I know the break up, end of a toxic relationship, is the main theme... but I feel like Ari manipulated us (just like Dani) to think the cult is "good" for her.
At the end she seemed the happiest but her sanity was gone, like she accepted the nonsense of it all to live a better (fake) life.
Cults members usually go after vulnerable people and make them feel like family.
That's how I see the movie anyway lol
Great reaction as always ❤
I've said this a million times and I'll say it a million times more, Florence Pugh should've at least gotten an Oscar nomination for "Midsommar" just as much as she should've for the movie she was nominated for in 2019, "Little Woman". She was excellent in "Little Women", that I am not arguing. But, there was something more raw in Pugh's performance in "Midsommar" that should've received recognition by the Academy. But, you know how they roll. They hate horror movies and so performances like this and Toni Collette in "Hereditary" (which I'm still mad about) go unrecognized by them.
The main theme is not break up from a toxic relationship.... not even close... it tries to focus on it, but this whole movie's theme is much deeper than that and it is very prominent that the theme is way more than just a bad toxic relationship.... and also if you notice from the very beginnings of everything, Dani was the only one they all were actually accepting to participate in most of everything... they made her feel welcome.
@@jbvader721 true. Florence and Toni were amazing. I don't care much about Oscars, its not only based on talent and performances, but yeah... they should've won awards for the movies.
The most frightening thing about this film is that it demonstrates how effective the cult's techniques are, because it's almost like we're being indoctrinated too. So many people end this film thinking that it's a happy ending (and I felt that way too the first time I watched it), but it's not until you stop and really think about it that you realise how bleak the situation really is. Dani's just swapped out one toxic relationship for another one, albeit one that seems more supportive and emotionally available, and once you realise that, you see that there's no happy ending waiting for Dani in the future
@@christianwise637 exactly. And that's why I believe Ari manipulated us, because most people will buy the community empathy that Dani needs (and will never have with Christian), and forget their weird intentions and behavior. The focus is the bad relationship with Christian and the fact Dani should have any love.
When asked if the movie had a happy ending Ari laughed, then stopped and explained it is a break up movie he wrote during his own breakup.
I do believe he tricked the audience, like Dani was tricked to believe everything she needed was harga.
Her final smile scares me, like she was completely brainwashed... gone.
But yeah... leaving a toxic relationship for another one.
At 46:19 - Being burned alive in the bear is a Viking torture. The fats drip out and the hide shrinks, so it's not clear which will kill him first - the burning, the smoke inhalation, or the being crushed by the shrinking bear-suit.
The way Robert had to verbally specify that he doesn't like Christian 😂
He's terrible. Just terrible.
Amazing director, i love directors that know real horror isnt just cheap jumpscares but is actually a primal fear that existed since millenia..being jumpscared by a squirrel flying at your face while screaming isnt being afraid..what dany was experiencing while trying to call her family is real fear, or even the feeling of heart palpitating anxiety while waiting for something to come out at you from the dark is real fear, it doesnt even need a jumpscare, the jumpscare is the finishing touch (if its a good jumpscare that was done after building up a scene).
Ugh...I know pelle is a murderous, manipulative psychopath, but when he delivered that "do you feel held by him? " line I was ready to stuff someone into a bear.
Lol! Same here!
SAME 😂
You both noticed the "3 screams of Connie". Good job!
Watching the director's cut for the first was the best decision. I remember reading the original script for this film and it was even more insane.
in the beginning of the movie while Christian and the rest are together Pelle says to Christian "don't forget about all the swedish woman you're gonna impregnate in june". my jaw fucking dropped while i saw this scene the second time.
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I NEVER CAUGHT THAT AT FIRST!
The music during the sacrifice scene is absolutely beautiful! That makes it so much more horrifying!
Boby Krlic did am AMAZING job with the score on this film, especially the opening and closing scenes! Dark music for the sad, depressing night time scene, Light music for cheerful, happy summer gathering daytime scene.
I’m so delighted you guys had an appreciation for this movie. I think it’s a masterpiece and most reactions I’ve seen to this are very negative. It’s cool how much you guys picked up on and I thought your commentary was insightful. Thank you for sharing! I am subscribed 😊
The thumbnail says it all, doesn't it? Can't wait!
Loved the National lampoons Christmas vacation reference/joke thrown in there. “The blessing!!!”
I'm really sick, and watching you react to it is giving me so much joy. Thank you for being you
Hope you feel better. 💜💙
Midsommar is the greatest film about a Christian doing missionary work with a pagan. :D
I watched the original Theatrical Cut of this film and was so amazed by it that I immediately watched the Director's Cut mere minutes later. A masterpiece. Great reaction!
look at robert guessing everything... & florence is phenomenal in this.
I loved this movie too. The second watch is even better as you notice little things in the background that makes it even richer.
You said it yourself, the festival happens every 90 years. Presumably there wouldn't be any former May Queens who are still alive lol
That not true, pelle shows Dani a picture of last years may queen at the start of the movie. Also it's mentioned that they do it every year. The whole sacrifices thing is a 90 year thing.
OMG the Police Academy shirt though - I couldn't stop looking at it LOL!!!
I love how you got the ending. She lost her cold family and gained a warm family. Very unique movie and not the most common reaction to it.
The only thing cold from her original family was the sister. We don't know anything about the original family, but this "new" one isn't, it's a cult. Pelle manipulated Dani into all of this, like cult members do - they target the vulnerable and weak.
@@SerafiniAGaunt No. For sure. We don’t know what happens to the May queens either. But we do get several clues about Dani’s posthumous family. One of them being that her family didn’t openly show emotion or communicate. That’s one of the reasons the weeping mirroring scene was so pivotal for her character. A group not only validating her feelings but expressing them with her. I don’t think she ends in up in a good family, but completely understand the smile at the end as she finally lets go of her previous life.
@@jeffwilliams2828 I understand it, but not from a place of sympathy. I only see someone who was manipulated into their "family" because she was an easy target. The joined crying that they do was actually nothing more than another indoctrination tactic - if you noticed, they surrounded her so that they'd be the only thing she'd see, started mimicking her, and then they made it so that she'd be mimicking them. It's very subtle and very sneaky. The closest thing we get to Dani being able to process her emotions with someone else is Pelle, but even he only lets her do so to a certain extent before trying to sneakily manipulate her. It's a very scary tactic.
I watched this movie threetimes in a row to see all the details I missed. You can see in the beginning pictures an the wall in Danis apartment with the bear and the pictures in the sleeping hall show what is going to happen. After Dani becomes May queen the people took her through the nature while she is standing on the wood board you can see faces of her family in the trees! I love this movie because it is always daytime but mindf*ck all the time. Greetings from Germany❤
I hope y’all react to Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid too if you haven’t seen it yet. Ari Aster is one of my favorite up & coming directors. He hasn’t missed at all in my opinion, he keep making new instant classics left & right from Hereditary to Midsommar to Beau Is Afraid. Ari Aster even got praise for Beau Is Afraid from legendary director Martin Scorsese who is literally one of the greatest storytellers to ever Grace the movie industry. If Martin praises your work then you just know that you’ve done something right.
It's on the list. We will be sure to do a reaction to it. Not sure when, but we definitely will.
@@LatetotheParty cool. I can’t wait to see your reaction then, hahaha
Beau is Afraid is my favorite of his three features. And I am a HUGE Aster fan.
@@seanl324 I’m a huge Ari Aster fan too. But Beau Is Afraid is probably my second favorite of his, with Hereditary still as #1.
At 20:51 - "Why are they wailing?" They are crying in sympatico with the guy who is lying is severe pain.
I'm glad you are reacting to the director's cut...it makes it much clearer how awful Christian was.
That's cool lol. I had put my tablet down to do something but still watching but the screen didn't flip so you guys was upside down and it just happens to be on the part where they have that shot where they're driving upside down and the road and sky is flipped lol but with the screen not flipping that shot was up right normal and you guys watching it was upside down lol. Funny watching moment lol.
Many thanks to Robert & Vanessa! 😱 As you both noted, despite the horrificness in this tale... it has a twistedly happy ending. 'Dani' lost her whole family at the beginning, had a rotten, selfish boyfriend... and it ended with her accepted into a new family that treasures her. Her smile said it all. Those traditions, by the way, were actually practiced by some ancient Nordic cultures. Perhaps that's Aster's starting off point; what if those ceremonies survived to present day in secret? It's a masterpiece, in my opinion! #LateToTheParty #AriAster #Midsommar
"Actually practiced by some ancient Norse cultures."
Not really... stuff like the sex magic stuff were practiced, but all evidence we have of it is from the Christian or early modern periods... what sexual magic we know of from the ancient Norse was very different and more ritual, less charms and spells... human sacrifice was a thing... but very rare, not regular and ritualized like in the film, and very different when it happened... most sacrifice was animals, and they were actually eaten by the community after being sacrificed.. the exceptions were burials for people especially beloved by the community, who would be buried with intact sacrificed animals sometimes... burning was generally used for cremation for most people who weren't given the honour of that kind of ritual burial... some of the Midsommer stuff is more modern Swedish traditions, not ancient ones... the blood eagle is a thing in ancient stories, but it's there is disagreement if it ever actually happened, and if it did it was more of a "something some guys did to someone once" rather than a tradition.
That smile shows insanity and the cult won and got her at her most vulnerable.
Best reaction to Midsommar I have seen! Subscribed!
At 47:51 - I'm not sure that Dani found what she wanted, but the emotional hits kept coming, so she is having a psychotic break. She is nuts, and she is in great danger. Everyone she knew from her grad school situation are dead and gone. Her family is dead and gone. She is at the mercy of these people who have decided, "You are the family, yes?" I don't think that is a happy smile, but a broken smile.
You'd think they'd told their families they went to Sweden so they know they went there lol
That comment landed as soon as Dani smiles lol. Yayyyyy lol
Great reaction. Love your take on the story. Thanks😊
There's a lot of good Folk Horror films. Hereditary counts as one, along with Midsommar. Any film to do with cultish rites and a natural setting, really. A Field in England, The Witch, Children of the Corn, The Ritual, and The Company of Wolves are great titles in this genre, too.
Thanks for the recommendations. We already reacted to Hereditary on our channel. We'll add the others to the list. Except for The Witch, because we've already seen it.
And obviously The Wickerman (the original; NOT the Nic Cage remake lol))
My vote to The Company of Wolves, definitely! 👍👍👍
11:21 the word FAMILY triggered her to a bad trip!
The whole tourist department of Sweden jumped off the cliff after seeing this movie...
It's all about Family...Found Family.
At 27:44 - There are so many things going on, we almost missed it. Pelle was picking plants in the foreground, and people in the background had put the ashes from the elders on the tree. For an anthropology student, Mark is ridiculously ignorant. So... We watched the ashes being put on the tree, and Mark peed on the tree. Mark was in the wrong. Probably not wrong enough for what will happen to him...
This and hereditary are best of the decade
At 20:23 - "Almost, like, put her in a state of calm..." Dani is not calm. She is in shock. She is still deep in mourning for her family, the suicide-homicide of her sister and parents. For these people to commit suicide... Dani is panicking and can't think of what else is going on around her.
This movie is amazing.
Dude I love the police academy shirt
And after Halloween you can watch "Beau Is Afraid" (also by Ari Aster), a very VERY different and unusual movie that I'd be curious to see your reaction to as well. ^^
(it's pretty long tho, just a heads-up)
Every shot beautiful especially every shot of Dani lol
Im happy you watched the directors cut! It just really gives you a better idea of what a crappi guy Christian is
If you watch original The Wicker Man, watch the Final Cut that has a runtime of 94 minutes
Thanks for the info!
That flower hat is cool I want one lol
Yayyyyy celebrate Dani for how awesome she is lol
I have mixed feelings about this film as a whole, but it's an acting tour de force by Florence Pugh. Her portrayal of grief...man.
More disturbing minutes, yay! Let's put on our flowery crowns guys!
They sitting there staring at her like Michael be staring at Laurie lol
Yay
I like to joke that my biggest regret of 2019 was only choosing to watch this twice in theaters.
Sequel would be called Midwintar
"That escalated" xD
This movie is so good! I forgot how much the boyfriend sucks from the very beginning so by then you are like YES BURRNNNNN. Also, Florence Pugh is the literal GOAT.
The Sacrament (2013) is a great “Cult/Community”’movie
Added it to the list.
this kinda gave me Suspiria vibes, both versions are cool.
I live 1 hour with car from where it is supposed to be filmed😅
8:20 Yelena always blips when she goes into the bathroom
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Thanks for reviewing this great film (director's cut, too). I recommend you watch the old version of The Wicker Man with Christopher Lee. I used to date a Swedish guy in Orlando, FL and celebrated Midsommar with him at his friend's house on the water. There was a fairly large Swedish community back in the day. Sad to say, there were no sacrifice, human or animal (kidding) but we did dance around the maypole (no one was crowned a May queen). Great food and lots of drinking! I believe Swedes are amused with Midsommar depicting them as...cult murderers. 😄
At 45:10 - "What is going on with their families back home?" As we've seen from Dani, I'm not sure that they HAVE families back home. Remember Simon and Connie from London? Ingmar was going to marry them. I'm guessing that their families, like Dani, are either non-existent or simply not important. In short... Besides the Harga, the people taking part in this 90-year festival are all unconnected to the outside world. Besides Dani, they are anthropology PhD candidates, who might travel for who knows how long. No one is looking for them. No one seems to care. They are the perfect victims for this cult.
So much easier to watch this and communicate all the weirdness, and not just sit there - trapped in the movie theatre, destroyed 😅
I never want the party to be over lol
Ari Aster's cinema is a cinema of manipulation. I love how he leads us to think that this ending is a good, happy ending for Dani, using all the clichés from various horror subgenres like the slasher (the Joker, the donkey, the student) to make us hate the male characters and commemorate their deaths, making us part of that cult by considering the murder of innocents something common. All this one-sidedness of the male characters is on purpose so that we are in Dani's shoes when they die, and thus celebrate the end she had. This is far from a happy ending. Dani lost her family and was in a toxic relationship, and in the end she ends up finding her "family" but not in a loving and spontaneous way. The fact that everything was orchestrated so that she would be the May Queen only proves how great this film is at commenting on religious indoctrination and manipulation, especially the fact that Aster makes us feel happy that Dani has found her "family". The community is as toxic as Christian, but Aster works too well for us to consider this a happy ending. Dani is completely crazy at the end and I love how Aster cuts it off and doesn't let us know if she actually chose Christian for the sacrifice. The cult was in charge from the beginning. There is no happy ending in Midsommar. Just like the infinite light of the sun, the film manipulates very well and makes us feel like we are in the shoes of a person who is dragged into a cult. A subtle masterpiece. Brilliant reaction, it's one of the best about this film here on RUclips! I love you!
Robert, who is that on your shirt? They look familiar. Thank for another great video!
It's Sweet Chuck and Zed from the Police Academy film series.
@@LatetotheParty Thanks! I thought that looked like Bobcat Goldthwait!
The Wicker Man, 1973 British film. Please try.
"She's happy? She made it out?" Dude, she's in a cult that won't let her leave. She was high as hell when she smiled at the end. She is not happy. She's in a worse predicament than any of the other characters. It's one of the most devastating endings ever.
She will live a life of simplicity amongst people who love her. Also, who said she can't leave? Others leave all the time. She is in no danger. Plus nobody else will be in danger for another 90 years. She will be dead and gone by that time. Great ending. 👍
I think you missed the point that she's high. Do you think that everyone in the CULT will enjoy when Dani sobers up and has the realization of what she took part in with killing her boyfriend, although he was shit, stayed by her side and was drugged, raped into sleeping with an underaged girl who was groomed into doing so? She's gonna flip out, and they're gonna kill her. They only let people leave who fully drink kool-aid. She smiled at the end because she had a psychotic break from the horror. Also, they don't love her. They needed more numbers and mentally damaged people. She was simply a mark.@@LatetotheParty
@@LatetotheParty I'm not so sure about that. All we know of the cult revolved around this particular time and the customs around it. I think it's a cult, or a commune with very cultish vibes. I think that feeling happy for her in the end is the ultimate trick of the movie. I feel like anyone who feels like she got the happy ending here was indoctrinated themselves in away.
The movie is literally about breaking up with a toxic relationship. Per the creators. She found people who are empathetic to her experience. People who were open to knowing her life. And she Chose to go along with it all.
@@PuentesRE I don't think they were displaying true empathy. It was always driven by an agenda. Making someone feel heard and acknowledged can both be a mark of respect and a weapon to make someone more malleable to you.
This is how cults get people. If someone is dealing with a trauma they feel like they can't share with anyone they might pick the perfect stranger to offload onto before they really get to know the stranger and realize they're not so perfect after all.
This movie was the real Wicker Man remake.
Apostle 2018 Gareth Evans !)
Ik you guys did this specifically for me 😋 (delusional btw)
But all jokes aside YESSSS IM SO EXCITED THANK YOUUU SM
Awesome movies he does lol. Cool shirt lol. Yayyyyy Dani did awesome job in this lol. Very pretty scenery and clothes in this lol. So many pretty flowers and tapestries lol. Crazy beginning poor Dani reminds me of Halloween a bit especially when people say Michael motivation was to kill his family but he only killed his sister if he was after his family like that wouldn't he have did something like this lol. Did nothing to parents and according to sequels I guess he forgot his sister til she visited him then he's like ill wait fifteen years then ill get her lol. Whatever happened to the parents lol.
Its funny you say that cause in this cur there's A extra scene where Dani points out what you saying they all fools lol. He'll yeah Florence never a fool lol.
Sometimes its best to be alone then surrounded by nut jobs! 😂
They orchestrating it but what if she fell would they be like oh its ok keep going but what if she drops multiple times lol.
Has Will poulter played a role where he wasnt a Bellund JW
This was a fantastic movie that I never want to see again. So disturbing and uncomfortable.
I'm doing that breathing thing now like the clucking in hereditary lol. Yeah mate with mia lol. She looks nice but I'd rather stick with Dani Florence lol.
There wouldn’t be any May Queens alive because you die at 72 and this ceremony is done every 90 years. 🤷🏻♀️
Very true.
Some people thought this movie had a happy ending. ?? It most definitely did not. Not only is Dani now an accomplice to murder but she has completely lost her mind. She lost everything and everyone and has now joined a murderous cult. She will likely take part in whatever deranged rituals they have in the future and will do what those two people did on the cliff once she reaches that age. It's not a happy ending. It's dark and heartbreaking. Her boyfriend and his friends sucked but they didn't deserve that.
But at least she's happy. 🌞😊
It DOES have a happy ending albeit a darkly twisted one not unlike Eggers’ THE WITCH (2015). Dani, like Pelle in the movie who tragically lost his parents in a fire, now has a family that will support and carry her through her grief which was all but consuming her life.
It is a happy ending, for Danny. Not for the outside prespective
It's a deceptive ending. We're glad for Dani finding comfort and community, but at the same we know that she's been targeted, drugged, and brainwashed by a cult. The beauty of the film's setting belies the truth of what's happening to the characters. We don't like most of them, but they're still better people than the murderous Harga.
This movie doesn’t have a happy ending. Ari aster gets confused about people thinking Dani got a happy ending just because she’s smiling. It’s worth the while to look up some ending explanations or Ari interviews to really get it. It’s also trippy watching ‘everything you missed’ videos because they’ll point out things like Dani’s sister has masked face being made out of the trees and bushes in the distance as she’s being carried in the platform after winning may Queen and you’re like, Ari HAD to know no one would catch that on their own lol
If we're happy at the end of it, it's absolutely a happy ending.
Everyone gets a chance at whack a mole lol.
That's why people don't like this one as much as hereditary cause you don't really care about these people and this one is more of a slasher with bunch of dum decisions lol. Fools lol. But I like demi more than dude in hereditary lol. More beautiful scene try clothing more beautiful shots in this than hereidtary lol. I'm happy for Dani lol. Lots of awesome shots in this lol. Still love hereditary but that's like night and this is day lol each movie are does is awesome lol. Cooler opening in this one I think lol
Yeah, you’re only supposed to like Dani so the rest of them can be killed sacrificially.
these two were effectively Manipulated by Ari like how i was manipulated the first time
31:16 I'm kinda sad you guys didn't notice the reddish drink the boyfriend has in comparison to the other yellow ones, that's the blood from the drawings since you're the most observant reactors I know
Freaks lol. Blur that awesome scene lol. That's A romantic sensual face lol she don't need to close her eyes lol.
I love how the ending is the definition of a deceptive happy ending. I can see how you guys think it is a happy ending for Dani, considering that by the end, she is technically "happy" and feels loved by a group. But overall its definitely NOT a happy ending ha ha. She was emotionally manipulated into being apart of a murderous cult that killed five people.
If we're happy at the end of it, it's a happy ending.
@@LatetotheParty Fair enough 😂
yeaaaaaah, I didn’t not think it was a “happy ending” for Dani. to be a delusional part of a crazy ass cult is not exactly what you want for a person 🙊
They don't see themselves as crazy and delusional, though?
@@hennakettunen8755 I guess. that’s why I said it didn’t seem happy “to me”! I’m not a cult member, so to me what happened to Dani is kinda tragic.
That ending wasn't very happy. I think the whole movie is a way of showing how easy it is to compartmentalize atrocities for the sake of belonging thus indoctrinating anyone who thought she got a good thing out of the cult by end.
*carbon monoxide poisoning
I’m so conflicted about Christian because he didn’t want to be in the relationship and he would’ve ended it if it wasn’t for her family’s death. Dani kept pushing to be in it even though she knew he wasn’t into her anymore. People always paint him as a POS, which he is in parts, I’m not defending him, but she kept pushing to be in a crappy relationship that she knew wasn’t working. Dani is no victim here. And she made me quietly mutter “F you” during the final shot at the movie theater because people like that are also the problem.
Everyone needs to watch this a second time and pay attention at how Dani accepted her situation with Christian. There were a couple times where the door opened for her to finally confront him but she always said, “It’s okay. It’s fine” which was her also accepting her situation with him.
Lol
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@@zuhnaiya yes, pay attention to her. It takes two to tango. He’s definitely awful and I can see how everyone sees him as the only guilty one in the relationship but she volunteers herself to the misery of her relationship. He said she was too clingy. The clues are right there. They both sucked at making good decisions. She basically guilted him into inviting her. She was definitely dysfunctional too. No one is responsible for the others happiness. That’s codependency. Dani shows it. All the times he was an ahole and she still kept him. Who’s at fault for that part, ha?
It is difficult to say anything possitive about this dreadful movie so well done I guess.
Looks like you were too busy making hair pie jokes and completely missed the fact that Christian's drink was decidedly more orange and darker than everyone else's
Oh no! The world is over! 🤣
@@LatetotheParty Wasn't trying to be a smart arse. Just pointing something out that you seemed to have overlooked while commenting on/reacting to something else. There's no need to be a sarcastic dick about it
It's kinda sad that americans, even when researching a country can't get it right.
"Yoddeling".. that's SWITZERLAND. Get it right ffs, Sweden, Switzerland. They don't even sound alike. Chocolate is Switzerland, Yoddeling is Switzerland. IKEA is Sweden, ABBA is Sweden, Spotify is Sweden etc etc etc.