What just happened here??? First time watching Midsommar movie reaction 

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Mason’s optimism is hilarious. Yep, everything is going to be just fine.

Mason trying to rationalize everything is hilarious 😂

Mason Quinn acting like everything is normal during the weirdest shit cracks me up every time

I absolutely love this movie, I find a lot of people hate it or misunderstand it. Dani going from not being able to show her grief around her “friends” and feeling like a burden, to being able to absolutely break down with the women who cried with her and made her feel validated. Of course she would join the cult after that, she never felt more welcomed and loved.

This is not a crime drama. This is a psychological horror drama about cults. Cults never make sense because they don't use their common sense. And as you guys mentioned, the characters weren't good people and it's hard to empathize with them. A lot of audience sympathize with Dani, who in the end finally is happy to find a group of people who emotionally connected with her. She finally found peace.

Some details: - The opening tapestry summarizes the plot from start to finish. - "What is she so happy about?" The end line of the script explains it: "Dani BEAMS. She has been embraced by a new family. She is Queen. She is not alone. A SMILE finally breaks onto Dani’s face. She has surrendered to a joy known only by the insane. She has lost herself completely, and she is finally free. It is horrible and it is beautiful."

I watched a really interesting video on youtube, an ex cult member was analysing cult scenes from movies and Midsommar was featured. They referenced the scene in which Dani is surrounded and the other women begin to mimic her cries. He said this is a real and genuine technique thats definitely used in real cults to create a hive mind mentality. It dismisses her feelings, making her less of an individual and removes her autonomy. It adds to the feeling that all you have are the people with in the cult. Apparently in some cases it can even be trance inducing, particularly if done in a particular rhythm. Think we see that sometimes in even positive ways, say when we are at festivals or concerts and everyone sings along even when the music stops. We all feel part of something great for just a moment. Made the scene even more eerie when re-watching it.

As a Swede I absolutely love this film, the attention to detail and research they did is amazing! The painting over Dani's bed isn't just foreshadowing, a bear and a blonde girl, but is also q very famous painting by the Swedish classical painter John Bauer. The aesthetics, clothes, art, music, it's all very similar to our folk culture. Ättestupa was mentioned in viking texts. If you lived long enough to be a burden you could jump from a cliff and still have an honourable death. The blood eagle is also from viking times, the victim had their spine split open and lungs pulled out while still alive. The dancing around the maypole is traditional, and the dance until you expire is from a folk song called Hårgalåten (which also gave name to the commune, Hårga) in which the devil dresses as a fiddler and makes the young people dance until they die. There's a brief scene where girls are walking backwards picking flowers. This is from an old superstition, it looks a little 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. Honestly, the least authentic part of this film is the nature around the commune. It isn't filmed in Sweden and it shows.

What’s funny to me is how many people thought this was a happy ending. Cults are never a good thing 😭

Another great reaction, boys! I couldn’t stop laughing at Oak trying so hard to “be respectful” of a pretty blatantly despicable cult, lol. It’s okay to criticize crazy behavior, we ain’t gonna cancel you guys. 😂

I was in India when this movie intially released. By the time I returned back to Norway, the movie was almost done with its theatrical run. I managed to catch the VERY LAST SHOWING in my local theatre. It started around 2100. I arrived and discovered that I was the ONLY PERSON IN THE THEATRE lol. Over the course of the next few hours the movie proceeded to freak the fuck out of me. At a certain point I thought that everything in the frame was slowly warping and I was going crazy. And I couldn't look around at other people to check if I was seeing things or not lol. I rode my bike back to my dorm 2300 onwards and to date it remains the most on-edge I've EVER been lol. At a certain point, while walking my bike up a steep hill, I properly JUMPED cuz I thought some man was creepily waving at me through a basement window. Turned out it was just a plant on a windowsill with a knick knack next to it lol. It took me like an hour and a half to fully relax and calm down after I reached my dorm. the 2-min noodles I made def helped lol So yeah, this is one of my favourite horror movies XD

This movie never fails to leave me with goosebumps💀 like cults are genuinely so damn scary. You don't even need crazy rituals like this to get manipulated and never be able to escape

I love that a lot of Ari Aster’s work explores how grief can affect people. Dani was so vulnerable & so looking for connection. Unfortunately, that’s exactly the type of person cults prey on. FYI, the medication Dani takes at the start is Ativan, an anti-anxiety medication.

I think I can understand what Oak was saying at the end about endlessly dealing with someone who has mental issues. There's a point where you don't have the energy, you're worn down, exhausted, fatigued. Doesn't make you a bad person, everyone just has limits.

i’m really into psychology so i love the aspect of how grief and depression can make a person so vulnerable, feeling like a burden on others and constantly compromising to make the others around u more comfortable/satisfied even if it’s affecting you negatively - also the way it shows how it can make a person more vulnerable to falling into the brainwashing of a cult, something that can actually happen is what makes it all so terrifying

The scissors in the baby crib could have a meaning of 'cutting' the attachment between parent and child, cutting of that development of empathy. In an earlier scene a woman holding the baby tells Dani “Her mother is on pilgrimage. It helps them to detach.” And a point is made in showing that the baby keeps crying and no one comes to help it calm down. In this way they raise people to be detached, unempathetic, so they will more easily accept their practices of human sacrifice and killing old people and visitors. And it could be partially based on real practices, it looks a bit similar to how in some cultures superstitious people would put a small lump of metal under a pillow of a child who has nightmares or in general is a fearful child (scared of thunder etc) to "help it against fear". I'm from Eastern Europe and my grandmother did that to my brother when he was a kid, we found a lump of some metal and were like what the hell.

Pelle bringing in Dani made me think of Mark (skin the fool) in the car saying, “Oh, the women here. What is it that makes them hotter?” Josh replies, “Well, the Vikings grabbed all the best babes from other countries and dragged them over.” That’s what Pelle did with Dani.

I have seen this movie 6 times and I just now realized when he forgot her birthday he said "i'm sorry I thought it was yesterday" even if he thought it was yesterday he still didn't say anything

As a Swede I was quite surprised about the attention to detail, they even had some Swedish actors involved. The culty stuff is obviously not real in relation to midsommar but a lot of other things they had like the pole, dancing around the pole, paintings and flower crowns are.

Pls guys after this consider hereditary movie

also, josh and pelle both knew what the Attestupa sacrifice was. and they did not care to tell the girl who just lost her parents. thats unforgivable. to put her through something equally if not more traumatizing.

Twice we saw how the word "family" triggered Dani's trauma. After she becomes May Queen at the diner table, a young woman starts gleefully telling her repeatedly that she is now family and Dani is finally over that trigger.

I think it's really cool how they managed to make such a beautiful tradition into something disturbing. Here in Denmark we celebrate Midsommer aswell, however ours consists of making fake witches and burning them on a bonfire 💀

i swear to god mason always looking at positive vibes throughout this video is crazy 😂

Oak getting creeped out by absolutely everything hahaha. "He has an immaculate sense for people?!?!"

As a Swede, we do NOT claim this movie lol this shit is scary 🥲 We do celebrate Midsommar, it’s pretty big here lol. But we make flowercrowns, eat midsommar food (crawfish, shrimp, potatoes, eggs, sour cream with dill, herring, meatballs, strawberry cake and so on), sing short songs and drink or as we call it (snapsvisor). It’s popular to celebrate it by the coast with a big group of friends/family or the countryside! Or you just gather a group of friends and get wasted lol. The movie had alot of similarities from reality, except that the movie is a cult 🙃

*Oak looking at the lemonade glass with period blood in it* "Ooooh the, the, the, the - yeah..."

The thing that stood out the most was Florence's acting in the beginning. She let it out when she was crying and it was powerful. The music set the tone for the rest of the story and while I knew things were going to go bad, I didn't know how and it made the film unique and special.

"What just happened here?" Cults. Cults happened, and they're freaky and they're real. Probably why I preferred this movie more than Hereditary, nothing scarier than reality.

A film that makes horror in daylight, in the clear, in a candid place, beautiful in that way, full of angelic people with Shangri-la behavior and good vibes, this idea is perfect and a great social critique too. In fact, I like it when horror subverts expectations, like, turns something seemingly innocent into a disaster. In Ari's hands, discomfort is right, and it's a compliment. Midsommar é my favorite film of his. I could spend hours citing scenes and symbols, but I leave that to specialized critics. I loved the reaction.

I've watched so many series/movie reactions from you guys, and I love how you each have a different reaction to gore or cringe 🤣 Oak: Shouts at the screen or has a look of disgust Answer: Covers his face while chuckling and tries not to let it break him Mason Quinn: Laughs in the face of cringe and points at the screen while trolling the other two 🤣🤣 Never change! ✌

I felt Dani's grief in this movie and it always makes me cry. Idk, it was more than just a movie about a weird cult to me.

Oh god I can already see the disgust on y’all’s faces in some scenes lol

I really like this movie. It's such a great depiction of grief and manipulation of grief. The human emotions portrayed in this movie is just amazing. Florence Pugh was unreal.

The length worked for me because it's a novel of a movie. It's like an adult fable. I just love how absorbing the story was, especially how it was told. I always thought that there was an interesting exploration between loveless relationships and friendships to those with cults. There was always something onscreen telling different parts of a story. I'm sure someone has recommended Aster's previous one, Hereditary. Comparing the two, I can say I definitely appreciate the humor in Midsommar.

No matter how many times I watch this I will never not be disturbed or fall out of love with Florence Pugh. It’s such a good movie.

This movie is incredible and one of my favorites. I wish i could go back and experience it for the first time. Second film directed by the already iconic Ari Aster who’s directorial debut was “Hereditary”. Aster said he didn’t even have time to celebrate the release and subsequent success of Hereditary because he was immediately off to begin filming this! I really look forward to more of his work!

The film's about relationships, basically. More specifically, a break-up. Danny didn't feel valued and in the end chose to let go. You can see how the villagers shared her pain with their cries and yelling and such. For the first time ever, she felt a support she hadn't had from her boyfriend. I love how tragic, yet poignant the ending sequence is, though. That's the genius of this film, and there's a great line from the script that goes: "She has surrendered herself to a joy known only by the insane. She has lost herself completely. It is horrible, and it is beautiful". All that coupled with the great visual effects that symbolize the drugs and the hallucinogens, plus the fantastic soundtrack make this an absolute treat. It is kinda hard to understand at first, though. Ari Aster truly is the current horror movie king. Him and Robert Eggers have made some of the best stuff in horror atm.

I always have the feeling that Ari Aster was challenged to make a horror film that takes place entirely in daylight. This is the result.

Oh what a ride this was...Florence Pugh❤️🥰❤️

Majority of the movie was filmed in Budapest so not very Nordic nature which is a bit unfortunate. Our forests have quite the fairy tale feel to them. Already when the trailer came out most Nordic realized it wasnt filmed in Sweden. That being said, its a wicked flick! Having celebrated many midsummers it was fun seeing a dark side of a light & fun celebration. Just missing the frog dance around the pole 😆

This is disturbing movie but i loved it

I love when a horror/thriller film like this does not rely of cheap jump scares. Also, I realize this is a very disturbing film for most people, but my goodness is the whole film gorgeous looking.

I believe Ari Aster called it the most disturbing break up film. The film is so layered it needs to be seen multiple times.

Hope you were strapped in tight for this one! 😂 Movie's nuts...lol. Pugh's performance was fantastic ❤

This movie bears watching several times to truly pick up on all the nuances. Each watch will give you another facet depending on who you focus on. Christian sucks, but he didn't deserve that and if you think Dany has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

This is one of my favorite horror movies. In a way it's very cathartic? lol. It's very hypnotic and relaxing despite the disturbing bits because it's so visually pleasing, and even though Dani joined a literal cult by the end, from her perspective she got what she wanted: to feel loved and supported by a community, and a "happy" ending is so rare in horror movies. And it was pretty satisfying seeing Christian get punished, even if he didn't deserve a terrible death. There's a lot of perspective at play. Like we know everything that happened is Bad, but at the same time it's easy to get sucked into the cult and accept it all as "normal" or "good." A testament to the good writing. Also having a lot of prior knowledge/context for the viking inspirations and stuff and an interest in folk traditions really took away a lot of the shock of things for me. I was like "this is fine :)" Very interesting movie in how it affects people differently. I imagine it was a really awkward viewing in cinemas lol.

The best part of this reaction is watching Mason trying to rationalize all the red flags at the beginning😭😭😭

Can’t tell you how many friends started looking at me weirdly after this film came out 😂 I like to say yes that’s a pretty standard midsummer celebration for us..🤷🏼‍♀️

I loved this movie Florence Pugh at such a good job.

I live in Denmark, the downstairs neighbors to Sweden and in Midsummer, we light huge bonfires all across the country, typically near the shoreline. We put a fake witch in the fire, fill her up with fireworks so it sounds like she is screaming when lit ablaze.... everyone is drunk, dancing, music playing and we look forward to it every year 😍 we call it Skt. Hans. I wish everyone could experience it. I'm not trying to recruit 😂

I've seen this movie multiple times. I never caught that pele said his parents died in a fire. He watched his parents get sacrificed...

When your boyfriend takes you somewhere weird but you end up having fun.

I’m not really big into horror but there are a few movies like this one and The Shining and a handful of others that I can really appreciate from an artistic aspect. What’s interesting about Midsommar is how different it feels from traditional horror with all of the bright scenes, vibrant colors, and soft naturey aesthetics. I also like the really symmetric sets/shots (similar to the Shining).

I get where Answer is coming from, but The reason why they show you everything is because they want you to feel stuck in this situation that you don't understand, they want to see you uncomfortable and weirded out, if they didn't linger on the weird nude party scene for as long as they did it wouldn't have made you as uncomfortable as it did. The movie isn't supposed to be scary. It's supposed to be weird and uncomfortable.

The faces at the end is literally the same face I made when I finished this movie 😂

I love how speechless they are at the end

45:22 Danni was not happy at the end. She probably wasn't even aware of what was happening since she was drugged by the cult people. The cultists took advantage of her grief and manipulated her to join the Harga.

i really like this movie, it makes you feel such complex emotions. the horror of cults and how they prey on the vulnerable, scary stuff

Re: Putting the scissors under the baby's pillow. I've heard of folklore/superstition in the US where putting a knife under the bed of someone in pain is done to "cut the pain in two." I would guess that the baby was teething and the scissors were meant to reduce the pain.

1:00:52 - Mason haven't seen True Detective Season 1? Oh what a great opportunity for a reaction, TD S1 is absolutely brilliant!

The second I saw this, I screamed!! Dropped everything for this, so pumped to see the reaction!

Guys this is definitely not a cultural thing xD this is a movie about cults and the methods they use to recruit people. In this movie we see how they are constantly being handed sustances, sleep deprived, Danny was love bombed by the Pele and the whole cult, Pele targered Danny because she was in an incredibly vulnerable state and even Christian in the end was r~ped because he was in no state to concent. The funny thing is that the movie even gaslight us the audience to believe Danny is happy and in peace at the end but we do not know if she is save (what happened to the old may queens??) or what type of life she will have (will she have to convice people to join? will she be forced to have kids and hand them over?) so is kinda like people how thinks she has a happy ending because she was finally over Christian or "has a new family" were also indoctrinated/conditioned by the cult just like Danny. Is a great way to show how easily any of us can be sweped into a situation like this one and how hard it would be to get out.

This is a disturbing one and things are already pretty disturbing in the real world don’t know if i can go through it all again right now but I will try for you guys loOL ❤

Very, VERY uncommon film, and I think it is a success in its own rights. Such a difficult take to make a horror movie with so much light and open spaces in the first place. And it really did the job making me feel unconfortable and horrified in many different ways. It also offers a rewatchability for another layer of analysis. Really a great movie imo ! 👍

It requires the extraordinary of a director/writer to make phycological horror via bright and vibrant images. Whatever one thinks of the film, Ari Aster's ambition and cinematography is off the scale.

I didn't read all the comments, so someone else may have mentioned (and I'm still watching, so the guys may say it) but the fact that they were given drugs FIRST THING (before even reaching the compound) should be a huge red flag. I don't care if they were just mushrooms.

Have to strongly disagree with The Answers "moves slowly" critique. The long drawn out shots are essential for creating that level of tension and creepy feeling around the movie. Too much jumping to action and you'd lose that ever-present anxiety.

That's what cults do: they fulfilled a need she had so deeply that in the end she was willingly trading anything to be part of that, even if she wasn't fully aware of her actions due to the drugs. Florence Pugh's acting was amazing!

I’m so excited to watch your reaction! This is part of my list of favorite relationship/breakup movies!!!

This is easily one of my favorite horror films. Also, this movie does a great job of visualizing the effects of hallucinogens lol

Sharing your experience and what you’ve felt dealing with someone who is bipolar is completely valid and ok. It’s YOUR experience and as someone who is dealing with a family member who is bipolar I completely understand how tired you get of the cry wolf tactic that you you can only deal with so many times before you start to desensitize yourself with things like that.

This was filmed in Hungary, not Sweden. Just a little bit of trivia.

This has been one of my favorite movies since it came out and the extended cut is so good. Shows each characters motivation more and it’s a great cut

Wow...this movie went over their heads.

I will admit that at first I did feel a tiny bit of relief/satisfaction over Christian finally being removed from Dani's life no matter how violently (though obviously if he had been a real person I wouldn't have) but realistically she wasn't gonna be ok let alone happy after everything that happened. Dani had replaced neglect with an even worse abuser. She was no longer ignored & alone but now she was essentially controlled & obviously unable to leave. The Helga act like they love Dani but they almost certainly picked her because she was so obviously vunrable with very few people actually going to question where she had disappeared off to. So how can an attachment built from delibretly & repeatedly breaking someone down mentally, ever be healthy? The answer is it can't. The Helga "love" Dani but it's all bassed on manipulation, like a magnificent play they're just acting out where the only one (outside of the university guys) not aware of what's going on is ironically the very girl that's been picked for the lead role. The Helga fawn over poor lonley Dani but only because they want something from her, after that need has been met what would Dani's life in Helga really be like If she was even left alive after the May Queen ceremony (because the movie states that there had been a previous May Queen so it's up to the audiences to wonder what might happen to previous May Queens especially as no matter the attention lavished on her during her time in the cult Dani is still technically an outsider as she was not brought up a Helga)? She would have to cook what every other woman cooked, eat what every other person in the cult eats, clean when all the other women clean, wear what every other woman wears, take copious amounts of drugs, dance when the other girls dance, have sex with the men that are picked out for her (after potentially having to put her pubes in thier food & her menstrual blood in thier drink) while a bunch of old naked women chant behind her, bear children (only for them to not even really belong to her as 'babies in Helga are raised by everyone'), have to take part in/witness more gruesome rituals, then kill herself when she gets "too" old (having to make sure to "land right" or else face getting bulgened to death with a giant mallet). Dani, understandbly, couldn't handle the stress any more so she gave up, she surrendered every last bit of morality/sanity she had so she didn't have to deal with the pain anymore but by doing so she gave up her entire identity as an individual with the ability to say no. This is quite clearly shown as, after the initial adoring attitude of the crowd during the May Queen ceremony they immediately get Dani up in the air, though a surposed sign of respect & adoration for thier new queen it leaves Dani phyically as well as mentally unbalanced (especially as, like usual with the Helga, no one warns or explains what's about to happen) & quite vunrable as at any point the Helga could let go of the podium they've placed her on & let her fall. The second instance is when they're at the table about to eat. The Helga let Dani enjoy the a small sense of power for a brief moment (having her sit at the head of the table & be the one who decides when everyone could start eating) but it is only an illusion as when they dangle the unappealing fish in Dani's face, force it into her mouth against her wishes & then do nothing but laugh while she retches over the side of her make shift thrown they are sending a very twisted message to the audience if not directly to Dani (who's probably too mentally distressed by this point to untangle what's really happening to her anymore) & the message is clear. Dani may be wearing the crown & that may grant her a certain amount of "special treatment" but we should never forget who actually pull the strings. Dani is the Helga's toy, a new born baby to laugh & fawn over but her actual comfort & right to autonomy are non existent to the Helga, after all in her desprete need for "acceptance" she had traded it in, unknowingly, as soon as she had let them crown her (obviously her fate was actually sealed the moment she set foot in the "commune" but the Helga didn't really let up on thier 'we love you' act with Dani until she'd gone past her breaking point mentally). When Christian & the others are burned alive it isn't just them that die, Dani as we had known her throughout the story dies to, gone is the distraught insecure orphan desprerate not to be abandoned again & in her place is someone else, a Helga. The cult had finally won, Dani was one of them now & I think the reason why they no longer seemed to focus on her anymore (she was left to choke on smoke & stumble around in her entriley impractical flower costume crying) is because they knew they no longer needed to get her to accept their way of life as her's, after the very last remains of her old toxic life are burned away Dani had finally surrendered completely to the way the Helga's lived, she had been fully indoctrinated. The Helga knew that Dani was no longer going to try to leave or object to all the terrible things the cult dose, which is what the Helga had wanted all along. They'd hurded thier trumatised prey through a maze of horror into a castle of flowers until she was so emotinally exhausted she no longer had strengh to care that they'd trapped her there.

Answer has no patience. Every second of the movie was important. Don't see "Killers of the Flower Moon," Answer, it's 3 hrs 26 min.

I love the look on Oak’s face at the end. The far away, wtf did I just watch look 😂

They do accurately capture the way in which things move when you’re on LSD.

This is definitely a CULT! 😬

2:30 perhaps the most despirited, "yeah dude, we saw" I've ever heard XD

Really happy to hear the end discussion and how Oak got so much out of the movie. Great reaction!

This is one of my favorite movies❤❤❤ so unexpected. Glad you guys did this.

Midsommar is actually one of the most beautiful Festivals I've ever experienced. I was a stranger in Sweden and everyone was so lovely. Just a lot of dancing and singing. This movie really put a bad name on this wonderful culture. I still like this film!

Most of the movie were shot around Budapest, Hungary. The director went to Sweden and the farms around the actual place inspired how the commune looks like, but it was filmed just outside of the capital of Hungary, and at Korda Studios in Etyek (also Hungary) where a lot of Hollywood movies get filmed lately.

This movie actually inspired me to start learning Swedish! I’m almost two years in, now.

I would like to recommend "It Follows", it is a great indie horror, and "The Last Unicorn", because everyoe have to see it at least once.

Disconcerting: (adjective) causing one to be unsettled. This movie in a nutshell.😩

always disappointing when the ending of this movie goes RIIIIIGHT over people's heads

Swede here and I love answering questions! Weed and mushrooms are very much illegal here, even for medicinal use, and are generally very frowned upon. The scissors in the crib was for protection of infants (before they had the chance to be baptised) based on the old belief that certain creatures would come and take the human child only to replace it with their own. Disabilities and the like were often explained as the "healthy" human child had been replaced with a disabled non-human child. So Ättestupan has a complicated history in that there are no legitimate historical documents that mention it. It's most likely the idea of it was used as a deterrent of crime and unwanted behaviors. But it's never actually been used in this kind of aspect so no worrying about offending the culture on this one Oak 😊 The bear in the cage is not a cultural thing. The pants license is a real thing, it's when you turn 16 so this college guy is literally impregnating a recently turned 16 year old 😅 It's not really an old folk tale or anything, but Midsommar is one of the biggest holidays of the year in Sweden with lots of food, dancing, May poles and old folklore and traditions. But it's really them just taking the holiday and traditions and using them as background for the horror element. Also, while the movie takes place in Sweden with a lot of Swedish actors, it was filmed in Hungary so that cliff (the Ättestupa) is not in Sweden. Sorry for the very long post but I love talking about this 😂

Now you guys have to watch Hereditary. Same Director, completely different story, but a masterpiece.

the collective frowns when the movie finished made me lose it

The scissors thing is done in many cultures, including mine. It’s to cut any ill intent that may be sent to the baby, since babies are more susceptible to energy, good or bad.

I genuinely would watch anything you guys reacted to 😂❤️ love you all!

Only thing I got out of this movie is that Florence is a phenomenal actress. Her breakdown at the start was so visceral it shut an entire rowdy UK Friday night movie theatre up and put us all in to somber silence. Aside from that, if you're doing scary movies for Halloween.. I'm genuinely surprised I havent seen you guys do Sinister yet. One of the best.

I was so excited when you announced you'd react to this masterpiece. I absolutely love this movie. The actors did an amazing job, the way they shot it was just incredible and the story is great. Florence Pugh is excellent in this.

What i think it's really interesting about this movie is that is both really unsettling and also really beautiful. I remember the first time i saw it i was also disturbed but with time it really grew on me. I think it's brilliant for Ari Aster to find new ways to see horror in really contemponary ways, this being the terror of a clash of cultures and not being able to understand the meaning behind it. This movie also makes me think about (being mexican) we are always tought about how when the spanish came they saw the mesoamerican cultures as mearly barbaric people who needed to be saved when it was just another way to understand the world. And how the western culture was violently imposed to "save" this people. So i believe this is a great movie for that reason, bringing a cultural debate to horror.

She found the family she needed. People who will share her happiness and pain.

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❤