First Time Watching *MIDSOMMAR* | What Did I Just WITNESS?! (Movie Reaction) 

This movie demonstrates how real cults operate eerily well - they target vulnerable people, pulling them in with promises of family and community. But if you pay attention, the Horga are far more insidious then they try to appear. At the Attestupa ceremony, the two elders who were supposedly going to end their lives willingly, appeared anxious and fearful. Also notice how they were carried to the top of the cliff - so they wouldn't have the chance to back away. And that's what they have been doing to Dany throughout the whole film - manipulating and coercing her into playing her role. Even that scene where a bunch of Horga women were "comforting" her, they were really taking away her feelings and making them a property of the entire community, figuratively speaking. There no empathic link or psychic connection - they are just playing pretend. And in the end, even her choice of sacrifice was only the illusion of one - the Horga have already decided that Christian will be sacrificed long before he arrived there. And they made sure she will hate him by tricking her into witnessing the "impregnation ceremony" with simple reverse psychology. The last indication that a promice of peace and happiness is false - they feed the two other willing sacrifices a draft that will supposedly make them "feel no pain" yet we see them scream when fire touches them. The movie is a test if you yourself can look past Horga's indoctrination techniques, see with your own eyes, not what you are told you are seeing. The movie very skillfully tricks you into thinking this is a good ending for Dany, because that's what the Horga want her and you, the audience, to believe, but really, she just traded one manipulative and toxic relationship for another. Only now she has no hope of escape.

As a Swede, I approve of this 👌 It's actually very well researched and quite authentic in many respects. Clothes, drawings, music, is very close to what our own folk culture is like. Some of the music they dance to is actual folk music. The painting over her bed at the beginning is not just foreshadowing, a blonde girl with a big bear, but also an actual painting by classic Swedish artist John Bauer. Ättestupa is a custom that might have happened in viking times. If someone lives long enough to be a burden they had the option of ending themselves by jumping off a cliff and still end up in Valhalla. The blood Eagle is similar. Spine opened up, lungs on the outside, while the victim was still alive. The dance around the Maypole is traditional, but the dance until you drop is from a folk song, Hårgalåten (which also gave name to the commune in the film), in which the devil dresses as a fiddler and makes all the young people dance until they die. Honestly, the least authentic part of this film is the landscape. It's not filmed in Sweden, and it shows.

Dude, that poor baby is crying so much because it was purposely torn away from it's mother - they do this to all babies in their village so that - as they put it - the baby doesnt grow too attached to one person. Its just another example of their cruelty that is right out in the open but is easy to dismiss on the surface. A baby crying like that is in distress. You'd have to be totally heartless to ignore that. The villagers seem friendly but they're completely evil

Love Dani's catharsis at the end with the smile, she found her new accepting family, even if they are a cult 😅 movie really showcases how cults bring people in and manipulate them, the shared emotions, losing your personal identity.. wrapped up in this beautiful setting with harsh gore and amazing transitions, such a great movie. Glad you checked it out and enjoyed it!

Literally just came back from Midsummer celebration in sweden and go this in my recommended lol

At 28:33 - "What am I looking at?" Simon, who denigrated their "holy" tradition of Attastupa, has been punished with the "spread eagle." Simon has been stretched out, with his lungs outside of his back, to make it look like wings. (Whether they are really pulsing because Simon is still alive, or Simon is dead, and the lungs are pulsing because Christian is tripping, is left in the eyes of the beholder.)

Wow, I had a completely different view of Dani's path. Yes her family was killed, but after that? Pelle was taking the guys to Sweden to sacrifice them. Dani joins the trip and we see Pelle focus on Dani. He sees she is vulnerable, so will probably be an easy target. In fact, Pelle knows all their flaws(Mark's fixation on sex, Josh's obsession with his project, Christian's personality in general). So he can tell the cult elders and make their manipulation easy. They are all drugged on multiple occasions to make them easy to manipulate. That's also why she was allowed to see Christian having sex. That wasn't an accident. Dani is allowed to be the May Queen so she can choose to sacrifice Christian. Sacrificing him is Dani severing her last ties to who she was. At the end there with that smile, she is no longer Dani, she's a cult member. Pelle is even congratulated at the end for his success. He brought multiple sacrifices new blood for mating, AND a new May Queen. Dani is in a far worse position at the end compared to the beginning. She might have been alone in the beginning, but at least she was still Dani and she still lived among regular people. She's still alone as at the end. Surrounded by a cult is still alone since they are all brainwashed. They only do and feel what they are told to do and feel. At the end she's so drugged that it's possible she doesn't even know what's going on, that Christian is burning. The flowers pulsing is a clue that she was under the influence of some mind altering drugs.

Pelle is the perfect cult recruiter. And the leaders of the cult know it.

Hereditary is a very dark film, literally Midsommar is like the polar opposite, since it's mostly in the day and bright light

Lmaooo at the AI generated combination of Chris-es 😂😂😂

I had the same reaction when my father called about my mother's passing 10 years ago. I really appreciated how raw the emotions were in this

This is the brightest horror movie I’ve ever seen. Ari Aster did a great job of illustrating that sometimes the worst horrors are in the daylight. (Also did not catch that line @ 9:10 until now!) I think Dani and Christian would’ve naturally ended things if they managed to have a proper conversation. Both Dani and Christian were in unsupportive spaces, Christian’s was due to his friends; he did one worse by enacting that same lack of support to Dani even though she was willing to talk things through. Dani’s concerns seem to have been constantly invalidated to the point that she even suppresses them until they come front and center with a vengeance. Nobody deserved what happened to them.

Btw, there's a theory that Pelle killed Dani's parents and sister, cause there's a flower wreath in their room.

10:30 this gotta be one of the most accurate roasts ive ever heard💀

I understand hating Christian, but I didn't enjoy watching what happened to him in the slightest. Let's be clear, he was raped by the community, being coerced to sex while not in his senses...Then he was paralysed, not being able to move an inch as he had his legs sawn off (to fit in the bear costume) and then burned alive. You can find a clip of that scene in youtube where they have removed the music, and you can hear his muffled creaming before the other sacrifices start burning... And because bear skin is greasy, his skin was probably frying for a good while before he passed out from the smoke. I couldn't wish that for the worst person in the world, let alone Christian who was sort of just a crappy boyfriend. I think making Christian into such an asshole serves the purpose of making it make sense Dani would turn against him, and turn to the comunity for support. But I don't think the viewer should be rooting for this ending, aside from its artistic value. Let's be very clear: It is a cult, and a cult is never good for you. They're not truly accepting and caring of Dani, they are love-bombing her as toxic communities do. Her feelings aren't heard, they are being turned from her real, individual feelings into these fake communal feelings, where everyone screams and hides her screams underneath theirs. Dani's smile doesn't mean she's found true happiness: She essentially lost her mind, and went from one toxic relationship into a way worse one. And as you said, Pelle was the one who manipulated everyone and made this happen. He's probably brainwashed himself, but still, he is much more of a villain than Christian, and I would have rather seen him burn. But obviously, that would not have been as perfect of an ending for this film.

Ari Aster is such a genius, nothing less

Yeah, echoing some other comments Christian is an abusive dickbag who deserved bad things, but even he didn't deserve to be raped and gruesomely murdered. And Dani's fate is equally awful, although I guess she does have a slim chance of escaping one day.

The actor who plays Christian is great in the new show The Peripheral too, where he stars with Chloe Grace Moretz.

The strange thing about the Johnson’s curse censor is so subtle, so *chefs kiss*

To die by jumping off a cliff is grotesque, cruel, and scary. I don’t for a minute think that was in any way an interesting perspective on ending your life when elderly. Also as monumental a dick as Christian was he did not deserve to be drugged, raped and burned alive. This cult was inhumane. None of them deserved to die. And Dani smiling at the end to me indicated she had completely lost her mind to this grotesque and murderous cult.

The roasting of Christian made my day lmao (No pun intended)

Lmao those babies comment had me in tears. There’s no way anybody was sleeping through that for a week.😂😂

man I loved your comments on this - so many more interesting views than others I've heard. Really great!!

There are some amazing videos out about all the Easter eggs I suggest watching.

Golly, and I thought MY last breakup was bad! *rimshot*🥁

No truth to it. I invite you to sweden for the next midsommar to prove it. Just dont tell anyone where your going.

That pulsating flower is very bothering lol

Love this movie.. can't wait to see more from this amazing film maker!

A beautiful movie about cults, I recommend the original Wicker Man also

The christian actor is Jack Raynor and he is excellent in the movie sing street. I would recommend watching it!

I love this movie so much ❤️

professor to Christian: "this guy looks AI generated" LMAO THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT TOO! He looks unnatural for some reason Edit: 10:31 i'm deceased 💀 (i thought he was Chris Pratt at first)

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the second i saw his drink i noticed it was a different color than the rest because i'm justifabily paranoid about period blood

Say what you want about Aster's writing, of which I am a fan, but he's an amazing filmmaker.

Best breakup movie ever.

I'm not even halfway through your video & I love your review because you hate Christian as much as I do! LOL

i enjoyed it but it does feel like a remake of the 1970's movie the Wicker Man

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish would be pretty sick

Geez ur so beautiful....sorry lol but yea this movie is so in the style of Hereditary. I think this ones more disturbing cuz she traveled with people who don't like her lmao I would know right away

This might be random but you got nice skin bro 👍

As a Wiccan/Pagan that practices Midsommar - this is actually very accurate. Obviously not the horror elements, but a lot of the rituals and beliefs are aligned with old day Midsommar, and some of it crosses into present day practices. I think that's why this movie wigged me out. 😅

If your gonna take pictures from your phone turn off the flash

Ugh This movie

I really enjoyed most of the deaths though xD because of the sh*tty characters.... I was very happy for Danny... weird movie. xD Makes you feel uncomfortable but actually glad for the outcome.

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Atrocious film

i absolutly adore florence pugh, i love this movie for what it doest.but i really dont understand chris characters acting....it really didnt fit in.