34 Things You Missed In Midsommar (2019)
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Midsommar was a wild ride filled with visual metaphors, symbols, clues and secrets planted there by director Ari Aster. In this video I'll be breaking down the meaning of the movie, talking about some of the major themes such as the solar cycle and the circle of life, analysing the visuals, such as the "tea" trips, the symbols seen around the village and more!
Who are "the ones" and what is their purpose? What was the deal with Pelle and why was he so interested in Dani and Christian? What is with the unclothed people? I (attempt) to answer these questions and many more in this episode.
At the end of the video I'll be talking about the director, Ari Aster, and some of the trademarks seen in both of his films, but don't worry, I'll put a spoiler warning before I get into any of that!
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Other things you missed:
1) The woman that escorted Mark away from the table, the next time we see her she has a few fresh bruises/cuts on her face and lip. Signifying that Mark put up a fight
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2) In Dani's dream, she opened her mouth and blew out black smoke, referencing her sister who died from inhaling car exhaust fumes.
3)
Dani's family died during the winter; the seasonal end of the cycle.
4) The painting we see in the very beginning of the movie is a summary of the entire storyline
Mark is it you mark?? These are really good observations!
I noticed #4 the second time I saw the film. I was, "Holy s%^t, that's the entire movie!"
now i really need to see this painting
I didn't miss the 4th one but i didnt wanna take a look at it as i knew that's gonna be the story.
Did not understand why her family died!?!??
Christian's constant gaslighting of her was terrifying. Dani constantly was apologizing to him, making excuses for him, and ignoring her own needs.
Leelz247 I hate using this word, but that was low key triggering. Reminded me of my ex. I hated him immediately when he had his friends talking about how “abusive” she was.
Yup. Spotted that too.
That's what toxic people do they make the victims of their bullshit blame themselves.
so....after dealing on a daily basis for about at least 1 1/2 years with her crap (at least she lost her parents back 6 months + it's mentioned she is throwing her problems onto him at least for a year before that) he is a gaslighting boyfriend bc he needs at least a break from her ego trip? In a relation he is basically just having bc he diesn't wants to leave her alone in her misery? Sure Karen whatever you say.
@@herrschmidt5477 Exactly. Sure he might seem like a dick but he was put in an insanely tough situation. Not gonna act like he's completely innocent but being someone's emotional crutch day after day can make you completely numb to that person. They are both clearly in the relationship for the wrong reasons. Christian feels obligated to stay I'm the relationship because of Dani's horrible tragedy. But Dani clearly only stays with Christian because she thinks he's all she has left.
did anyone else realise how they kept using the number 9?! “its 9pm here” 9 sacrifices, 9 day festival, every 90 years?! idk why but the number 9 kept coming up.
Also in the way that they divided a person’s life into the seasons of nature, the years are multiples of 9: 18, 36, 54, 72
Nine is a magical number. Three, three times over.
The vikings had extra large human sacrifies every 9th year. Just saying...
Also don't forget the 9 inches we see flopping around towards the end.
@@snoocherific139 Which video is that? Sounds interesting.
The scariest part of this video is the way he pronounces Christian
its how they say it in the movie...
Was literally scrolling the comments for someone to acknowledge it. Thank you.
Agreed lol. Cringe everytime
Bryana gabaldon Chris-chean.
That is NOT how they pronounced it in the movie! Not the Americans anyway Lol This dude has absolutely no reason to pronounce it like that! He's not Swedish! It sounds forced and unnatural.
I also think that it's possible that the cult purposefully let dani win the competition to make her feel special, in turn being more likely to join the cult
The happiest I was in the entire film was when Dani suddenly knew how to speak Swedish with the other girl, because she was dancing.
MrJagermeister in the script, it describes that they were speaking gibberish. that was the point of, “we understand each other!”. since dani was so afraid of being outcasted and disconnecting herself from christian + friend group, that scene was supposed to represent her releasing the chains that held her back from being playful/silly with others. i highly doubt dani was able to learn the native language that fluently and whilst under psychoactive drugs...
Jesa Loves Her Cows I mean, I definitely didn’t take it as her drinking and dancing and learning a foreign language by some sort of osmosis, haha. I’d be curious if someone that spoke Swedish could confirm it was gibberish, though. Or her version of the Swedish Chef from the “Muppets”, haha. Anyhow, I loved it because she was *happy* for the first time in the entire movie, she bonded with someone outside of the group she came with, and she made a connection in that moment (even if it was entirely in her head or gibberish or whatever).
I mean, I’ve done mushrooms before and I felt like I could understand my dog for an evening, and they had plenty of other jokes and references to what it feels like to be tripping. (Especially the part where they argue about starting at separate times because they’ll be on different trips, or the guy telling everyone to lay down and not being able to settle until they do, or the way she saw herself in the mirror and ran out screaming, or the gorgeous representation of the trees and landscape and environment breathing and faces warping... the director and cinematographer/vfx crew definitely did some mushrooms/LSD at some point because I’ve never seen a movie nail it so perfectly).
probably "wilkommen" which means welcome in Swedish
MrJagermeister i am swedish and i can confirm it was complete gibberish. it resembled old norse language, though.
i also realized after rewatching it that when christian brings dani the cake after forgetting her bday, she blows out the candle just like the tradition “oh AH” breathing thing that the people do there
Well, it’s in reverse i think 🤔
also, Pelle says that both his parents died in a fire where the whole building was burned down,,, just like Christian in the Bear and the other corpses and two people!!! aaaa!!
So my boyfriend and I were discussing this and we were stuck on how that could be possible if that sacrifice only happens every 90 years? Unless it is every 9 years, I don't see how his parents could have been in the last one
It's likely he lied or his parents just had a freak accident.
Good catch Cameron LeMayQueen
Its probably just a symbolic coincidence, because yeah, the human sacrifices only happen every 90 years unless he is wayyyyyyyy older than we think he is haha.
The May Queen ritual is a anual thing, just the 9 sacrifices that happen in 90 years. Ari confirmed.
The villager also say "Welcome Home" only to Dani.
And she’s the only one they embrace in a hug when they first come in!
No One:
No One at All:
Zac: *takes shirt off for _context_ *
Ari Aster told me to.
I mean... I'm.ok with it
Idk I'd listen to that king Hahah
I knew Zac body was nice just by his outline of his chest but God Damn hes even more hunky.
Going thru comments n looked up to a skinny man. Smh
Dani doesn't actually speak Swedish in the dancing scene, they're both speaking gibberish but somehow understand each other
She does speak Swedish at some point tho. Just after she says I don't speak Swedish... She repeats it in Swedish
Good Mushrooms can do that
When they first get to the village & the others are running around playing a game they ask what they are doing & Pelle answers that they are playing "skin the fool". Later when Mark is killed it's revealed that he was skinned. At the end his skin is stuffed like a doll & dressed up in a jester costume so he looks like a "fool". He was the character added for comedic effect in the film, like a jester.
The crying scene when Dani finds out Christine is "cheating" on her was one of my favorite parts of the film.
The crying reminded me of a trick one might do with a baby. It's where you mimic their cry & they grow confused & sometimes stop crying.
Also the villagers do it a lot. When the man vreaks his legs with the jump & he screams in agony they all start screaming with him. In the end when the fire is happening they start crying & screaming when the people in there start. It's like a form of unity for them.
I know it's supposed to be weird & unsettling but it kind of calmed me. In my culture elders used to do a similar thing during funerals. When someone is grieving & starts crying a lot of them immediately go to them & start crying hard too. Soon a group of women are crying hard in front of a body. It shows unity & compassion. We don't do it much anymore but once in a while I still see the older women doing it. The younger generation not so much. I never did it but when my mother died I was surrounded by crying elders & it was comforting for me at least.
the moment when all the women cried with dani was my favourite part of the movie for this exact reason! it honestly feels so comforting? like instead of trying to convince her she's fine (aka christian's go-to method), they feel the grief and pain with her and support her in that way. a super powerful moment tbh.
What is your culture?
@@cutiekika native American
When ex-cult members talk about their experiences after escaping, many of them say that despite all the horrible shit that they went through, they do miss the sense of being bonded with your community. This movie was super accurate to accounts of how cults act and recruit
I’d be totally down for something like that
When Dani becomes the May Queen and is carried to the dinner table, you can see her sisters face in the mountains.
Amazingly creepy!
i tried but i cant see shit lol
I’m watching the movie now and I just spotted it!!
There is also a face in the trees
Her sisters face with the tube in her mouth appears quite a bit in the movie
Has anyone mentioned that this is literally a representation of what Stockholm syndrome is like?
I mean first off, Marc mentions Stockholm like three times. The four main cast were essentially taken hostage by pelle, much like the four hostages that were taken by the bank robbers in the Stockholm case.
She eventually goes from a skeptic of everything, to being conditioned into choosing to kill her boyfriend and join her captors as their “queen.”
nice one...nobody seems to mention it though...good job
i don't think this is something very accurate
they didn't actually where agressive to HER like it should happen in a Stockholm syndrome, for me it's much more like a family replacement or something like that.
someone even says "Welcome Home" to her
if that’s your interpretation that’s fine but ari himself said this movie is a breakup movie. dani let’s go of some one who was emotionally abusive to her and fines her new family
Wow you are so right! Stockholm Syndrome is code word for being gaslit in a cult.
goofy goober he says that out of the corner of his mouth though.
Finally a review of this movie that talks about the runes!
Their meanings can change a little between the cultures, but according to the old futhark:
-The rune that is "R" shaped is named Raidho, it was the rune about travel and the transformation that comes from this travel.
-The rune that is hourglass-shaped is named Dagaz, which was the rune about dawn, the day and deep changes, in a good way.
About the shape of the table, they are actually different each time. The one you point is named Othila, the rune of the family and it is the last rune. This rune is there because it is the last meal that those two old ones are eating.
Another shape of the table was an "I" shaped, that was the rune Isa, Is or Ice and it's meaning was "stop", as "you need to take a pause and ponder", and that is the last dinner we watch in the movie.
Every rune has more than just one meaning, so I'm just saying my interpretations.
Isa also symbolizes self-preservation, and isolation from the "outside world." I think it's supposed to show Dani going all the way inward, totally withdrawing from outside (non-cult) attachments and assimilating with these people who've sucked her in. She chooses to sacrifice Christian a couple scenes later.
It also sets up Christian's ritual: they make a path of flowers directly from the Isa table to the barn to have sex. He's on a lotta drugs, confused, cut off from Dani emotionally and physically, and feels the urge to escape or turn inward. So he withdraws down the convenient path they pave for him, and just like that - Dani and Christian are isolated from each other.
I took that Pellel was not just picking Dani for the community but as his future mate. I know he brought new bloods for sacrifice, but his interest in Dani is unique.
Pelle was grooming Dani for the ritual. While she is granted the “choice” to sacrifice Christian, the whole group had been drugged and manipulated by the cult for every step. Except for the pissing on the ancestral tree part, but I suspect the group was doomed for the start.
Also, I think Pelle mentions his parents died in a fire, which makes me think that they were previous sacrifices like the scarecrow people this time.
Also looks like pelle wanted Dani lowkey
I think the first movie to use naked old people for scares was the OG version of Rosemary's Baby.
Good point. I guess I just meant which one kicked off this recent trend.
Wait is there a non-OG version of Rosemarys Baby?
@@limetreess Not currently, but I wanted to be specific in case there was a re-make in the works or anything.
S- CC gotcha! There probably will be seeing how they’re doing things these days lol amazing film tho
Scariest part of this movie and Hereditary for me
im from sweden, and no she didnt speak swedish when they dance,
she said: i dont speak swedish, and then she speaks what she think sounds like swedish and the swedish girl just repets that so the just speak random nonsens,,
they speak Swedish but they never sing a swedish word, just made up noises!
Glossolalia (talking gibberish) is a fairly common effect when taking strong psychedelics, to the point where people can't hold an entire conversation made up of non-words and still understand the meaning.
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so, they were pretending she was speaking swedish in order to make her feel good.
apolo apolon ya that’s what I felt.. they were all just high and speaking gibberish but pretending to understand each other
They were all taking strong psychedelics which makes this make sense. Nothing was an accident
Aesthetically this movie was absolutely astounding..def DISTURBING also
@Catharsis Alright sorry jeez calm down bud
@@adambulking406 Hahaha yeah what a grumpy fuck
One thing I noticed: when Christian and Dani arrive home from the party where she had learned about the trip to Sweden, Dani is standing at the door while Christian is being shown in a mirror.
Next, when Dani visits the guys and says she might join the trip, she can be seen in the mirror above the sofa. I think this represents her alienation from Christian and the squad.
I noticed in this same scene that when Dani closes the door, she has a picture of a red-headed girl like Maja on the back of the door. She looks at it for a couple of seconds and then stands in front of it and blocks Christian's view of it. Then later in the scene Christian looks over at it and stares for a long while, and Dani has to snap him out of it.
Ari uses mirror images quite a bit in Hereditary also.
Reflections in this movie seem to symbolize things not being as they seem in my opinion.
Christian claims he just decided about Sweden but that was not true and their relationship is not what Dani thinks it is.
Pelle talking to Dani about going to Sweden and you see her reflection.
Dani seeing her sister in the mirror while tripping.
Josh seeing who he thinks is Mark sneaking up on him only to discover it is Ulf.
You also have the upside down mirror effects after they arrive in Sweden and are driving that this trip is not what it seems.
Nobody seems to have noticed 2 things:
1- Annie from Hereditary appeared in the crowd for a second;
2- Dani's sister wrote "everything is black" in her mail before she killed herself and the parents and someone from the village refers to death/end as The Black One in a later scene when she's going over rituals
where was toni collette in this movie?
I need to know, is thus real?
Her mom (and also her dad) appears in the crowd. Similar looking, but not the same.
Actually I've heard the black one is referring to the origin of the bear. People so scared of the bear so they didn't say its name. Like calling you know who instead of voldemort.
@@manaash4316 i think they are exactly the same actors in the credits.
If you look closely at the painting as the movie begins, you’ll see Pelle leading the rest of the group while playing the flute - like the Pied Piper, leading them to their fate
Ha! Thank you! I saw the pied piper reference but I still couldn’t figure out how it connected to the movie for some reason 🤦♀️ feeling dumb but educated 😅
A24 seems to have a beautifully horrific aesthetic going on recently. Especially with the director behind hereditary and midsommar. So whoever is on the art and set department, congrats to them.
They also made THE WITCH and THE LIGHTHOUSE which are also great horror movies.
I was happy that I watched Midsommar second, hereditary was so freaking dark, i needed that midsommar ending.
The May pole is like kind of important in Scandinavian culture it’s not just a “phallic structure”
Ellie It’s not a “phallic symbol” at all.
It refers to the Swedish word “maja” meaning “to adorn with leaves”.
it’s phallic only in that it resembles a penis, that’s all phallic means
doesnt even look phallic. someone is obviously horny
@@realnuisance39 doesnt resemble a penis in any way.
Anna Kaunitz that’s cool I didn’t know that!! I knew it wasn’t supposed to be “phallic” but I didn’t know the meaning that’s neat. Lol now it makes even less sense for him to call it that
7:34 that is the reversed Othala rune. The Othala rune symbolizes inheritance, or heritage. However, its reversed upside down version is symbolic to taking for granted the love and affection of family.
Odal could also mean riches, and comfort, and is often also associated with children (im guessing that is why you said heritage).
Also could signify a sacred space. Division between outsiders and insiders. Taking in outsiders for the betterment of the inside group.
Something I think you may have missed, but I think the elder lady who jumped from the cliff looks very similar to how I would have imagined an elderly Florence Pugh to look.
I noticed this too! In fact I wondered if it was Pugh herself cast in a dual role. This is especially evident when the elder lady seems to make eye contact with Dani before the jump
FINALLY someone mentions this! It totally looked like an elderly version of Dani. I just can't figure out if the old man was supposed to look like an elderly version of maybe Pelle?
YES
OMG YES I THOUGHT THAT TOOO
Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but the tree is literally the cemetery for the community and THAT'S why they were upset that Mike pissed on it. And they were literally scooping the two elders' ashes onto the tree right before he did
Wasn't that literally right on screen and shown in the movie? It isn't like that is some hidden secret haha
@@ShlomoMetzenbaum yeah, but it seems like CZ AND some other people's videos either didn't notice or forgot
MacabreMavens but why would they mention it
i mean yeah, that's the reason why elders were pissed at him and explained this to him
I feel like Pelle chose Dani before she even knew about the trip. I think he knew she'd be perfect because she's emotionally/mentally unstable and would be more willing to join. that's why the members spoke directly to Dani. Pelle had already told them he found someone proper to join.
no she doesn’t speak “their language” in the dancing competition. It’s not swedish. they are both just talking gibberish
The character names stood out to me. Christian for obvious reasons, but also Mark and Josh are biblical names. Dani could be seen as coming from Daniel, another biblical name who happens to be the one who survived after being thrown into a lion's den.
Dude looks like he could be a member of the village that did Midsommar.
that may pole looks a lot more like a uterus than it looks phallic, to me.
It is christianized. It should just be a pole but later on another pole was added making a cross.
One important detail I caught that no one else seems to have yet, is during Christian and Dani's fight about him going to Sweden if you look in the background there is a picture of a girl with long black hair running in fear ontop of a bed of yellow flowers. I believe this is a foreshadowing of Connie running through the woods to try to escape the Harga through the entrance they came.
A few things i noticed: when they separate Dani and Christian after their friends went missing overnight, Dani gets to help the women prepare “meat pies” (i think they called them). The camera then lingers on the pies in a weird way, which made me think they were filled with their friends’ meat. Could be, since many of the bodies’ insides were replaced with hay at the ending scene. They do have cows and chickens though, so I could be wrong.
Also, when Christian is sitting, waiting in the house, he is staring at a tile on the wall portraying a bear set on fire.
I mean, the camera focused more on the pie that Maya made maybe to emphasize that it had her pubes on it. Every pie was on the table except for the one that Maya made.
Something I wondered about as well, except I was thinking about the old couple that leaped to their deaths. Afterwards, as someone is freaking out, Siv says something like “everything is recycled”. Then we see the elders on the huge brazier. Later, after ashes from the fire are being removed, women are making the meat pies in the building just beyond.
'What are you making?'
'Meat tards'
At the ending dinner there is a strange pile of meat in the foreground with flies buzzing on it. It made me think they are eating the dead people.
In one review, they mentioned a table decoration in the shape of a human figure. I don’t know if the movie was trying to induce another layer of dread, and nothing more, but there are so, so many details pointing at consuming human flesh. Makes me think of the horrific literal interpretation of the quote in the gospels about “this is my body” and “this is my blood” at the last supper.
Bruh when you played that mariachi music that freaked me out 😂😂😂
he got me on that one too lol. very nice.
Hahaha saaaaame Tony
In some scenes you can see Pelle just spying on them in the background. Some scenes are harder to notice than others and it's so creepy.
I keep seeing reviews saying she saw him cheating on her and not calling it rape. Imagine it was a woman how upset would people be then? This is a person scared and unable to control what's happening to him because he's heavily drugged and forced into sex even so far as having one of the women pushing him to make him finish. That isn't cheating it's rape.
Sadly, many people have problems acknowledging the notion that men can be raped, too. Maybe it does not fit their idea of masculinity.
I agree with other
@@rainbowgirlism he literally had a love spell casted on him. HE ATE HER PUBES!!!
@@kylecavagnaro7907 ok I deleted my comment
That’s not just some woman’s breasts that is a famous photo of Sophia Loren & Jayne Mansfield, which if u know the context almost reminds me of Dani and Maya in the movie.
Sahara Akdeniz I think it was no mistake to include Jayne Mansfield, who has been a practicing satanist, and friend of Anton La Vey.
@@lindseyhanson2731 and she was decapitated...
Thanks I just went down a two hour Jayne Mansfield rabbit hole.
The guy strung up in the chicken coop not only suffered the blood eagle, a Viking era torture technique where the lungs are pulled through someone's back like the wings of an eagle, but the poor bastard is still alive and breathing at that point....
TheGamingNovice I think we’re not supposed to know if that’s true though? Since Christian is still high on the hallucinogenic tea. They had been seeing the trees and flowers breathe too.
Miranda whoa interesting thought!
Shit was gross af
Miranda that’s what I assumed when I saw it and I couldn’t believe he could possibly still be alive, but in another video someone researched ancient Scandinavian torture techniques and they used several actual methods! I love how they portrayed the drugs though because they were subtle enough to make everything feel just a little distorted and for us to question the level of reality
I read the script, and he is indeed alive.
when they carry her as may queen: the woods in the background form the exact shape of a frame of the scene of her dead sister sitting there with the tape around her mouth.
Things I noticed
1. The girl that leads Mark away when he disappears, she is seen again later with a cut on her cheek and a black eye, signifying Mark put up a fight before he was skinned.
2. You can hear Connie scream 3 times, once when Josh is being showed the book, and then right after it cuts to dani and she hears it too, then it cuts to Mark, and he hears it too. I’ve seen people point out her scream when josh was being showed the book but I haven’t seen anyone address anything else.
3. When Christian is naked running into the chicken coop, you can see one the harga members standing in the background watching Christian enter.
4. Another detail about connies death is Mark tells all of them at one of the dinner scenes that he saw Connie “trying out for the Olympic sprint team” meaning he saw her running presumably for the last time
As mentioned in the movie, it's the Elder Futhark rune system. The "R" rune is Raidho, which usually stands for travel -- a "trip" would be more appropriate for this movie. The other rune (hour glass looking one) looks like Dagaz, but tilted at 90 degrees. It means day, so very appropriate.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned that the painting in Dani’s room is Swedish artist John Bauer’s painting from his fairytale about a princess and a bear. Also Dani’s parent’s wallpaper is a Swedish style of folk art flowers. (Both a foreshadowing) Also midsommar is pronounced: meed-some-are
I loved this movie and it impacted me so much because I have serious anxieties about family and relationships. This movie to me was less about the cult and more about the main character, the entire movie is her processing through grief and finding a new family. There's so much I can say about this movie but I can only say that this director continues to surprise me and I thank him for impacting me the way he did.
I think this interpretation is actually more on the nose than what the director has said his vision was! He was going through a breakup himself when he wrote the script and he said it’s really a breakup movie, but in my opinion it’s not about her romantic relationship explicitly, but rather who she feels is her family. Remember when Pelle asked (regarding Christian)“do you feel at home with him?”
This movie affected me personally too, and I like your take from it. Don’t you think we could all use a group of powerful ladies to cry in synchronization with!?
While the movie ends on a sweet note from Dani's perspective, Ari Aster has said that this is only day four of the festival. Dani might not survive all nine days, and if she does she'll be severely traumatized. This is a horror movie, after all.
She did not find a new family, she traded out one abusive relationship for another
Did anyone notice when the elders are explaining/announcing the final ritual of the burning of the building/that Dani has to choose someone to sacrifice that they're speaking in English? Its the only time they're not speaking Swedish because the scene is from Dani's perspective and she can understand them now.
There are plenty of times the elders speak English to the group.
When they explain to Connie thet Simon left for the train station
The scene where the elder woman explained to Christian that Maya was pining for him
The woman explaining to Dani the tea for the competition
This is small and I can't figure out what it would mean in a larger context, but at the end when the living cult members are given that substance, one of them is told "to feel no pain" while the other is told "to feel no fear." Yet the one specifically told not to feel pain is shown screaming in agony as the flames cover him, and the one told not to feel fear is shown panicking. It's just interesting to me that they would show the cult's mysterious substance failing at what it's supposed to do.
The symbols are Norse Runes. The C shape is pethro, meaning leaving your life up to faith, the hourglass syblom is Dagaz meaning new beginnings or the start
The runes they use have a much deeper meaning to the context of the film. the R one Raidho or Rad symbololises the personal journey and our inability to communicate it to others. the arrow is Tyr or tiwaz which is symbolic of the Norse God of battle, the one that looks a bit like an eggtimer is dagaz, it symbolises the daily cycle, Othila the one that looks like an upside down fish, is about recieveing spiritual inheritance, The double X symbol we see on the yellow circles is Inwaz or inguz symbolises unity, and harmony, but it can also symbolize the love between two partners, an undying bond. I haven't seen this film yet, but all of these runic elements seem to tie into the storyline complicitly.
i jumped straight to this too! i love that the first shot he showed us was of perth and othila on a ritual scene. a pretty good summary of what cults are. also the inverse algiz on the bear guy's clothes- unfortunate indeed
I have to ask how did u come to know this : )
@@soulsymphony5111 I studied and read runes for a good few years
@@cherryblossom7944 impressive,can I ask what's your field of study? :)
@@soulsymphony5111 At present Herbalism, But I studied in Runes, Tarot, colours, guides, totems and animal medicines, and practised for many years as a teaching medium and psychic.x
This is the second movie where he takes off his clothes. It's also the second time my mother entered the room and saw me watching this so ... my life is a horror and I'll tell you if I survive.
One more thing I noticed: During one of the meal scenes, the whole table had a glass of a pale yellow-looking drink. Christian's was the only one that was a shade darker, more orange-looking. And after he put it down, the camera focused on his glass for a short moment.
the painting of the "love story" showed one panel of the girl putting her period into her the liquid of her crush's drink
@@teamgileto I must have missed that part of it. I saw her putting her pubic hair in the love potion but not her period. Makes sense, though. Nice catch!
@@teamgileto You mean "menstrual fluid." "Period" is just another name for the menstrual cycle days when the fluid is shed.
Period blood.
There was a face in the trees when they carry Dani to the table after the May Queen competition. In the upper left hand corner of the screen.
I thought I was the only one that saw that. Glad someone saw it
Where? I see a few people mentioning this but I can’t see it. What’s the time frame? Maybe I’m looking at the wrong pic idk
@@eunjiyeol there's no pic of it online that I could find.
@@eunjiyeol ruclips.net/video/12OW2rDaGII/видео.html possibly a representation of Dani's sister the colors on the trees makes it look something like a hose attatched to the face
very good catch, I would never see that. This movie is packed with details.
ok two of the biggest theories I came with out of this movie from clues given throughout is:
1. Pelle's parents were sacrificed in the ritual when he was a kid. He talks about being an orphan and even mentions his parents died in a fire. The trauma from watching his parents burn alive in this ritual most likely forced him into integrating into the community as he had no one left.
2. This is kind of a long one to explain but it's one I can't stop thinking about and immediately wanted to discuss after leaving the movie. I don't think Dani's sister committed suicide and killed her parents, I think someone killed Dani's sister and parents and framed the sister. Even when Dani is talking on the phone about the email from her sister she says "It doesn't sound like her, even Christen thought so" Also having family members and friends who have bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses,, this is a really bizarre way to go out. I feel like most people with bipolar in a psychotic break would not do something so detailed and planned out, they would do something rash and quick. I think Pelle or someone in the cult may have known about Dani's sister's mental illness and knew they could frame her. Pelle knew Christen was going to break up with Dani soon (the deaths being the only thing that really kept them together), and even if he hadn't broken up with her Dani still may have not gone to Sweden because she would have had family to comfort her while her boyfriend was away for three weeks. I feel like there are more hints during the movie to indicate there was more to the murder suicide. Any thoughts?
When they first get to Sweden, on their way to the commune, they noticed some attractive women and commented on the women there in general. One of them replied that the Vikings "would take the best women from other lands and dragged them back home with them" and I couldn't help but think that that was what Pelle had been doing with Dani all along. The others were just sacrifices.
@@crossover8621 You're totally right ahhh
I think you might be right. Was there tape along the bottom of the door to the room Terry was found in? I can only remember on the parents' room. And it seems weird to me that she would tape the tube to herself like that; if she wanted to die by carbon monoxide poisoning, she could've just stayed in the garage or sat in one of the cars. The tubing was only needed to get the poison to the parents' room, everything else was unnecessary. That entire scenario was premeditated, and the email dani got made it seem impulsive. It just doesn't fit. Plus I think that if she was far gone enough to want to take her parents with her that she would've also waited to take dani too. Like, I've been suicidal before AND I'm bipolar, and I wouldn't be able to take someone else with me and make it even more painful for my surviving family members. And I really hope that that isnt how my illness is gonna be represented lol
@@golden-gardenias78 I don't know if there was tape under her door. But there was around her tube which is truly an odd thing to do. I think you are totally right. Representation is so important, it sucks seeing mental illnesses be blown out of proportion, really unfair.
Pelle's parents were not killed in sacrifice as that only happens every 90 years. I do have my own theories about Pelle killing the family the flowers surrounding Dani's picture in the parents room being the biggest indicator that something is afoot. He also never bad mouths her to Christian like Josh and Mark and genuinely seems excited that she's joining them. The artwork in the opening also has a skeleton(wearing boots) that detaches itself from Dani which I feel like indicates something Pelle? Chrtistian? who knows. I theorized that it's Pelle, who was her brother thought to have been killed, and he's attempting to breed another oracle. In the final scene Pelle's dubbed unclouded like the current oracle is said to be, however he's sitting off to the side in what appears to be a big puffy cloud. But then there's the circumstances of Christian and Majs's kid was she his sister?
Dani's Blanket that she uses on her bed in the sleeping quarters/barn is the same pattern as the carpet from The Shining. Looking at the scene on RUclips, the blanket looks similar, but isn't the same as I thought of at first.
Another theme in Ari Aster's movies is deformation.
Yeah, something like that.
@@CZsWorld The daughter in Hereditary who was meant to be the vessel, and the Oracle who is always a product of inbreeding in Midsommar. The deformed characters are always special and important in some way.
@@emilymurdoch6713 Good point --and kind of similar to the Eastrail 177 universe in that regard.
Welp dam Zac I was not anticipating you with no shirt...
I...
I need to sit down from all the blood loss.
God my nose!
And I thought that only happened in anime.
@@CZsWorld I'm a dude but... that was hot. No homo
@@CarlosRivera-vk5ou lololololol...
@@CZsWorld anything can be anime if you try hard enough
I'm here for it and I approve. 👏👏👏
Bruh Shaggy got pretty fit man. 😂
Wasn't lying about using 2% of my power.
She wasn't speaking their language during the dancing competition. She was high and was speaking gibberish, thinking she was having a conversation lol
Did anyone see that chick with the ankle brace on towards the end?? So weird
Yeah why is that?
1:08 isn’t that the jerk from the maze runner
Not Justin Y. Yess 😂😂😂
and he plays a jerk in this too
And a jerk in Narnia too
He is a jerk everywhere. Must be his face.
and a jerk in Toy Story too
In sweden you allowed to have intercourse or "byxmyndig" as they say in the film at age 15 so maya is still spring. To "Maja" in swedish means to put flowers and green leaves on something to make it beautiful. Therefore the name of the pole "majstång". There is a lot of swedish in the movie that is perfect. But during chanting and singing usually rubbish or some kind of old norse language.
All settings looks very fake and very unswedish in buildingstyle and especially the nature and rocks is really fake. Still a great movie thou.
It was actually filmed in Hungary
I noticed that too. The embroidery looked so very Slavic, and then I read that indeed it was, yet with Norse runes added later. Also many of the actors look a lot more eastern European than Swedish, which was also the case. I still loved the film, but to someone who is familiar with Sweden and Swedish culture it was a bit distracting.
@@lindseyhanson2731 there was alot of Swedish actors in it
The film was actually a US-Swedish co-production, and many of the actors are Swedish. I thought the buildings are meant to be un-Swedish in design, since even though the village is located in Sweden the villagers and customs are completely disconnected from modern Sweden. And the singing, I presume, would be meant to be derived from some ancient custom and language predating modern Swedish. Sort of like the Middle English of Beowulf sounds nothing like modern English, because languages evolve over time.
Hereditary: involve demons
Midsommar: involve mushrooms, lots and lotsa mushrooms.
2:52 he was screaming in agony because he fell on his legs and not on his torso or head. I think that was pretty obvious. There were no historical or past factors that made him "sad"
Yep, I agree. A person can be completely peaceful about death but feeling pain and agony at the same time, there's nothing strange about that, not even in our culture.
You should check the scene where the old people are eating before they sacrifice themselves. They give each other super sad looks and don't look fine with the situation at all. they don't show it while the others are looking at them but never when they aren't watched. they know its supposed to be an honor to kill themselves at 72, but they're still afraid of death and you can tell from the scenes before.
Dani doesn't actually speak swedish in the may queen competition. They are high and speaking gibberish but understand each other through body language and emotions in the trip.
Hereditary legit freaked me out, I have a nice sound system so I could really submerge myself in the film and boy oh boy, I couldn't sleep for about a week. I hope this film will do the same for me.
I'm pretty sure it messed you up didn't it?
@@felin_de_la_nuit of course.
@@vaper1986 Oh hi! You actually responded lol ✌🏼
@@felin_de_la_nuit Yep, are you aware of A24's next horror flick "The Green Knight" it looks promising.
@@vaper1986 No actually I wasn't aware but thanks for the heads up! Even though idk if I'm ready for another of their horror films anytime soon after Midsommar. I just watched it got the first time about a week ago and my mind is still not fully cleansed from it 😩😅
I found it to be her finding a new family. Like why she smiles at the end becouse she knows she is home ??
in the beginning, there’s a flower crown next to dani’s parents bed which could signify pelle’s involvement in killing them and guaranteeing that dani goes on the trip with him
I noticed the A-frame of the treehouse in Hereditary and the A-frame house in Midsommar being quite similar
cus Ari Aster ;)
other things you missed, there’s a scene that someone asks “what are they playing?” (the swedish children), and peele answers “skin the fool” which happens to mark who is the quite literal fool, they skin mark and turn him into a puppet, you can see that when they’re carrying him to the yellow temple
Btw the "phalic structure" made of plants is a traditionall midsommar decoration so yeah...
I forgot why i wrote this.
nothing phallic about it.
Well actually it is phallic by definition. Even if nowadays it kinda lost it, traditionally this is a symbol of the God's virility, so definitely phallic 😮
@@avril149 oh, i shoulde know that. fan...
Contrary to the elder man being in agony, but seeming so calm leading up to his jump, the woman had a clean splat, but looked very distressed from the dinner table right until she jumped (maybe she calmed down some on locking eyes with Dani).
Eldar Futhark is the runes seen in the movie. Menstrual blood and Pubic hair are mixed in as a spell to make Christian fall in love and it is actually the process on the comic as well. As for on the feast table that is called a Goddess Fertility cake and is probably containing the above mentioned ingredients as well as a few other unsavory items. Some of the Sacrifices had branches coming out and at angles looked like antlers. This would represent the horned god Ceranus. The entire movie is a dark ritual as each event is needed to facilitate the next. This isn’t openly practiced anymore but while the movie gave a cult twist ceremonies like this were common in many civilizations as the dude opposite of Christian doing his thesis states to the cult elder and was promptly ignored. Also the girls around the pole form a spiral not a circle ⭕️ this is an occult symbol also
Someone pointed out that the glass placed in front of Christian was a more reddish-orange than the light yellow lemonade looking stuff that everyone else was served. They show it from a couple different angles. Their assumption was that his drink contained the menstrual blood of Maya in addition to the pubic hair pie.
The girls around the pole formed concentric circles. This comes up a lot in norse mythology and metaphysics.
I think it was first shown as a spiral, then concentric circles
The man who "prepares" Christian for the sacrifice grabs a piano wire which implies that they cut off his limbs (or at least his legs) so he fits into the bear. Also a piano wire is used in Hereditary.
I'm surprised you were not able to find much on the runes, as they're common runes and their meanings are pretty easy to find. Example, the one that looked like a C with its ends crunched in is called Perthro, which means to change or changes are coming. Or at least, that's what my digging told me.
Damn it's a real life buff shaggy 😂 on a side note I wasn't expecting that I honestly assumed you'd be a little scrawnier
Pele talked about his parents dying in a fire so it's likely they died in the same kind of ritual seen at the end of the movie
DSEDITZ I think the 90 yr. thing was only a half truth.
That “phallic structure” is called a maypole, and it’s used for both midsummer and May Day festivals for children to dance around.
did anyone notice how when they were sitting at the table eating the pies, christian was the only one with a slightly pinkish drink supposedly because of Maya's period blood ?
Nope. She cut her labia.
But if Maja was having her period during midsummer, she could not have gotten pregnant. That is not the fertile time. I think she just put pubes in his meat pie, not blood in his drink.
That is actually a traditional Swedish midsummer spell. Period blood put in someone coffee makes them fall in love. Some details in the movie is very accurate. But we haven't sacrificed humans in several hundreds of years. Maybe we should start again to make sure society becomes whole again hehe :) But the traditional way of sacrifice is hanging from a tree.
Those runes can also be seen in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. Another game based on Scandinavian culture.
The flower wallpaper in Dani's parents room and the flowery crown over Dani's framed photo made me think the cult had something to do with their deaths. Also, after Dani's crowned the may queen and they pick her up, you can see and image of her sister with the exhaust in her mouth in the trees 😵
hey! Norse Pagan here!
so the R shaped rune is Raidho, which represents journey
the hour glass shaped rune is Dagaz, which means day or new beginnings
the rune that made the table shape is Othala, which represents family or inheritance
Anyone notice the odin/old man face in the trees when she was crowned may queen and being carried to the feast table, there's actually so much going on in this movie every second, that a real symbolic review could be like a 2-3 hr video or longer in itself
I thought it was her sister's face. The trees seem to form a tube heading to a mouth that's covered, such as how her sister killed herself.
After a 2nd watching it actually looked like Christians face. I think. It happens so quickly. I can't wait for it to come out on dvd. I would have liked to see the directors cut. They showed it in select theaters, none near me. Once I have it on dvd I can truly analyze it
@@dxpvxo711 I found this after a bit of searching: imgur.com/gdsCoUk
To be fair, I'm not sure it looks like any one person's face. It's hard to make out features beyond eyes and nose. The reason I thought it the sister is because of the shape the trees made, looking as if a hose going to a covered mouth.
I did see the Director's Cut in theaters. The shot is the same between the two, as I recall. It's not going to be on DVD, but iTunes will have it as an exclusive.
This movie had me shook !!!! The cliff scene had me shocked ASF wasn't expecting it to be so harsh💀
That shirt looks really good on you, dude. Another great video. I really enjoy your content.
6:44 PERTH that symbolizes mystery or something that is hidden and OTHILA that represents security and protection for the family.
6:52 Its name is RAIDO and means movement and adapt to the flow of life and renewal, also refers to the four elements.
7:22 Is DAGAZ but rotated and means "Daylight"
7:33 It's OTHILA upside down and it's the rune that represents the family, specifically the protection of the family or, in this case, the protection of the community.
7:37 The shields have a mixture of the runes INGUZ and GEBO, represent fertility, maturity and growth; and sacrifice or "act of giving" respectively.
Just as a note, that "phallic structure" is actually a pagan symbol of Litha (Midsummer) and it represents (from my research, anyway) exactly what you are talking about with the cycles and rebirth and such. Just something I found interesting and thought you might appreciate! 🥰
Pel talked a lot about his family dying in a fire, I think they died as a sacrifice years earlier.
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Dani's sister and parents (who are probably at the end of the "life cycle" and notice it's also winter) might have been killed by the cult or Pelle, nobody would suspect a thing because of her sister's illness. Also Pelle is very kind and seems to like Dani from the beginning, and the "Welcome home" greet only to Dani and not others.. It's like Pelle had planned this for a long time
totally agree with this theory and said the same after watching it for the first time last night! def seems like Pelle planned it all along...
I really doubt it. When she finds out they are going to sweden, its many months after the death of her family. It's likely that when Pelle found out about their death, he made the steps happen to get her to the festival too because she would make a good member due to her grief. He also probably notified the group about her ahead of time, because again, many months passed between the deaths and the festival.
Kimberly Doolittle true. and Pelle never invited Dani, Christian did, really last minute. In the leaked script online it says Pelle acted surprised and kind of froze when he found out she was invited so I think he got the idea to try to get her to join the cult and stay with him at that moment.
@@isabellane2131 Yeah, I agree more with that actually! It seemed like he chose the group of guys he did because he thought they would made good sacrifices since they were selfish and foolish, so the core guys were the "pre-chosen" that the cult mentions at the end. But since Dani was coming, Pelle had to make it work since he couldn't sacrifice her- she wasn't the chosen and he cared about her trauma. He almost seemed relieved after he processed the idea that she was coming along like an "aha" moment. I think he realized since he couldn't sacrifice her, she also couldn't go out in the real world after the festival to tell everyone what happened either; he had to make her join the cult somehow. Then he probably notified the elders before they got there about the change in plans.
Always thought of that and I think it makes a lot of sense
The attention to detail in this film is so marvelously crafted. ♥️
Can we talk about the genius camera work?
Like those conversations through mirrors and the car shots. wow
Damn CZ you RIPPED
He is.
Its Christian, not KRISSED SHEE AHHHN.
BringMaCKtoLife Dani pronounced it the second way
Dani absolutely does not pronounce it Crease T yawn... she pronounces it Krist- yun. I *just watched the movie Again to make sure. At 21:21 and 21:40 and every other time she says it... she says it Krist-yun.
@@djyonkyo6636 yeah if she pronounced it that way that's just a bad American accent.
loved your thoughts on this! got my sub!
I know I'm late to the party but is it bad of me to have liked the way it ended and even wanted to see Dani and Pelles relationship blossom. I was all for this culture man. Never thought I'd say that in my life.
When he pointed out that Christian suggests keeping an open mind and Dani is freaked out, I realized something. Technically here, Christian is more open to the culture but as he says this, he shows no feeling. Dani on the other hand is full of feeling. She rejects the culture because of it but it's ultimately because of that feeling that she embodies the culture perfectly. This is a movie about intuition, emotion and connectivity. Therefore it is a movie about embracing the feminine.
Probably why the Critical Drinker didn't like it, he seems to be a bit of misogynist, this movie was probably like garlic to a vampire to him
When i first heard about this movie and saw the trailer i was so confused
I love how when he started talking about *naked old people* he *actually* took off his shirt. 😭
another thing i noticed is that pelle mentions when talking to dani that his parents also died and says something along the lines of in a fire. at the end of the movie when the ritual happens i understood what he meant and i’m guessing my fire he meant that burning ritual...