Is this you on your pfp?? 😭😭 if yes I'm gonna start feeling jealous are you scandinavians all models or is it just the media that portrays you like that
This is actually a very well researched film. Flowers, may-pole, dancing, music and clothing, are very clearly inspired by our traditions today, but even the other parts have historical accuracy. Ättestupa was indeed a custom during viking times, when someone grew old enough to be a burden they had the option of an honourable death by jumping from a cliff. The blood Eagle was also a way of torture in the viking times, they open you along the spine and pull your lungs out while you're still alive. There's art in Dani's room at the start (a blond little girl with a big bear) which is by a classic Swedish painter, any swede would recognise. The "dance till you die" ceremony comes from a folk song called Hårgalåten (see how they got the name of the whole community from that?) In which the devil disguises himself as a fiddler and makes all the young people dance until they die.
From what I've read, "it is now generally accepted among researchers that the practice of suicide precipices never existed", and as for blood eagles, "there is continuing debate about whether the rite was a literary invention, a mistranslation of the original texts, or an authentic historic practice." (From Wikipedia, both quotes with multiple citations) But of course, whether or not either of things really happened in history, the film does a great job of playing on the fears of these cultural legends.
@@OAnIncurableHumanist you are correct , most of these practices are lies made up by the church during the christianization in order to make norse mythology look bad. Atleast thats the consensus among historians over here in Sweden
As a swedish viewer your jokes didn't offend me at all! You should all come over, I'll offer drinks totally without pubes and menstrual blood :p you can pet my bear too! Jokes aside midsommar is a real holiday. Just celebrated it last week or so. Drinks, big green pole, flowers are accurate. The rest not so much haha
@@erinraecowin whatever. they accepted her for who she was, unlike her horrible boyfriend. and she ends up in a much better place at the end of the film than where she was at the beginning.
So which of you four is 1. The one who defiles a sacred tree? 2. The one who has the worst 'shroom trip? 3. The one who wins the dance marathon and becomes the May Queen? 4. The one who's secretly already a member of the cult and draws the others in?
As a Finn, I approve of the final few seconds of this video. Our midsommar is a bit more chill, less being burnt alive and more drowning from crashing your boat while blackout drunk
At around 33:45 after Dani is carried on that platform, keep your eye on the trees in the background. They are shaped like Dani’s sisters face with the hose in her mouth.
I keep hoping that I’ll finally see a reaction where someone realizes that Dani’s sister’s face (gas mask and all) are hugely camouflaged in the bushes/trees in the background as Dani is slowly running and crying in her huge May Queen flower Snuggie
So when they burn him in the bear costume, the score covers it up but you can watch the clip without the score and you can HEAR Christian even though he's paralyzed, it's so creepy
This movie is so tremendous. So much mood. And the pacing is perfect. Love it. Now, to truly see it as it should be. Watch it, lights off, without talking over each other.
I noticed that in this movie that the two outsiders who are shown taking the least amount of drugs were the main ones who were really upset at the first sacrifice. They were also the outsiders who had a close relationship. They were also the ones who really were going to leave even if it meant walking out. They were also the first ones the cult got rid of one way or the other. t don't think that's a coincidence. Meanwhile, Christians group was the group where they were all distant or even sometimes hostile with each other, and they were also the ones we saw taking the most drugs. The point being that I don't think Christian's group had their shiat together, that's mainly why they didn't try to leave. They weren't thinking straight and were not on the same page. Imagine trying to get Mark, who only wanted to get laid, to leave with you on an hours long hike across the Swedish countryside when he could be back at a village full of young women. Josh only went there for the once in a lifetime research opportunity. It might've been possible to agree to leave if they were close friends but those guys were about as close as friends as Christian ands Dani were as boyfriend and girlfriend.
@@matt4at Looking at it that way, it gives new context to the conversation they had when he claimed to have dated her and she denied they dated. Also when Simon said 'are we going to ignore the bear' he snapped "It's a bear". So yeah, now that you mention it, he was showing some hostility towards them.
I disagree that it’s a silly film. The opening is crucial so you can see : A, the level of trauma she’s experiencing making her ripe for radicalisation by the extremists; and B, the sheer emotional inadequacy of her partner which is then offset by the subsequent offering of community, mass empathy and belonging.
@@MetroplexBias How do you feel about the opening? Critics seem divided on whether the tragedy at the start is necessary, or whether it should just have them already arriving at the commune with their emotional baggage only referred to throughout. I think it works as it is.
Enjoyed your reaction, guys... seen a handful of others, but appreciate y'all actually made me laugh with you... instead of just as a nervous giggle; since this film is genuinely disturbing 🤗😁
I remember getting baked before going to the theaters to see this movie, not at all knowing that It would start off like that. Ari Aster, you're messed up man. Great movie tho
So glad you guys saw this one. You should check out more A24 movies! This one has a cult following. People have tattoos of that last shot, dude in the bear, the A house... She was ripe for the picking for these people.
Omg YES to The Alienist and Mare of Eastown! I do think Mare is more reaction ‘worthy’. I’d add Sharp Objects too (if you haven’t watched it, definitely do so!) ✨✨
PLEASE SELL THIS VIDEO AS A COMEDY SPECIAL! I know this was a movie reaction video, but for just shear laughs, this was comedy gold, beginning to end guys!!!!! "...but Josh had to take pictures of hand turkeys..." - that one made me pee my pants!
Hi! I’m new to this channel. I would like to recommend a foreign film for you guys to react, it is actually a horror/mystery/thriller South Korean masterpiece called “The Wailing”. Please react to it soon if you guys are interested in foreign films.✌🏼
My interpretation is SPOILER that everything after Dani's mushroom trip is her fantasy/wish fulfillment. Obviously, the "commune" is not a working farm, and no one lives there. It's more like a picture in the children's book illustrations that you see in Dani's apartment. It all looks like what an American into folklore and anthropology might have a nightmare about in a foreign land. Not to mention everything makes Christian and the other jerky guys look bad, and makes her loved and wanted. Shortly, Dani will wake up, dump Christian, and settle in Sweden, hopefully with a hunky Swedish guy by her side.
While I understand why these kind of videos exist - man am I happy that I could enjoy the tension and atmosphere for full 2.5 hours without someone talking crap every 2 minutes. Way to ruin a good movie.
I think it was all planned. That peele guy knew she lost her family knew how shotty her boyfriend is and friends so brought them all there on purpose to sacrifice all of them and have Danni win may queen and he can get with her lol. All those people knew shell win. Let her win lol.
I even heard someone in some reaction theories that these people orchestrated all that and made it look like the sister killer the parents so then shell be upset and had all this planned but they had a hand in her family murder so shed comes d be part of their group
