Midsommar (Ari Aster, July 3, 2019) Movie • Page 14

i know whatever he does next will be amazing but I will be sad he's leaving horror for now, both these movies are game changers for the genre imo

 

he also just said he has 2 ideas for his next movie and they would both complete this "trilogy" so idk

 

When did he say he’s leaving the genre? I’ll follow him wherever but that’s a bummer.

 

Just left the theater feeling a terrible amount of dread so it did its job.

 

He’s said in interviews that this is his last horror movie for “a while” I believe, I have no doubt whatever he does will be great but selfishly I still wish he continued to keep fuckin me up

 

More thoughts later, literally just walking out of the theater, but I can say I really enjoyed this, however, as soon as they mentioned the May Queen I predicted how it would end almost down to the final shot

 

I think I like it more than Hereditary tho. It’s a god damn gorgeous movie

 

Ari understands how to capture the initial shock of grief so well. Both Hereditary and this display that feeling perfectly.

 

Really wanted to like this and the cinematography/Florence Pugh are terrific.

However, I did not find this scary at all and it just felt unpolished. Also the "shocking" scenes were more disgusting than anything to me. Was legitimately off put towards the end. They didn't really tie everything together and for a movie that felt pretentious and was supposed to be meaningful, it didn't have lot of meaning to me.

 

My thesis on this is that he told us nothing about Hereditary and in fact willfully misled us about the plot, so he wanted to prove he could make us feel just as stressed and freaked out if we knew everything that was going to happen.
It’s a gorgeous film. I think I loved it, but I’m gonna have to see it again. As someone who was so in on Hereditary, I’m glad that he was able to capture and reveal something else in this genre.

 

This felt way more arthouse than horror to me. It worked 10,000%, I think it’s better than Hereditary, which I loved

 

A very The VVitch esque ending

 

Oh! I am also curious about the construction of the score, mostly because I want to know if tones/notes above or below the human hearing range were used. There were a few scenes where I felt legitimately faint or dizzy and it wasn’t just the druggy scenes. In the beginning when she is sobbing on the couch, when they cut to the title card, I legit felt like I might faint. After that, I kept an eye on my Fitbit and my heart rate was going steadily up throughout. A little too much to attribute to just being a stressful movie! Maybe I’m just more of a weenie than I thought.

 

The theme of embracing people who actively care about you and ditching those who don't hit pretty hard, at least for me.

The difference between Christian comforting Dani at the beginning of the film, cold and reluctant, and the commune women literally mimicking Dani's cries and breathing to empathize with her at the end of the film was really stark and affecting.

 

Nah I got dizzy a ton during this too, it’s not just you. I attributed it mostly due to the various aerial shots though

 

For me it was a lot of scenes that didn’t make sense. Like the places where it made visual sense, I was dizzy but i was like okay, we are on drugs! Sure!
Florence is such a force in this movie. I also couldn’t help but feel she is so soft looking and perfect for this role and character arc. Really good casting.

 

Ppl out here rly doing drugs before seeing this. God bless you I cannot even imagine a worse way to set myself up for failure lmao.

 

I felt like it was very ”Hereditary” ending, with the grieving, neglected person becoming an idol of sorts.

 

Fuck I can’t wait to see this

 

I got that too. It's like a much messier, bloated version of the Witch.
But for real, I liked this movie but I would have LOVED it if it were 45 minutes shorter. This DID NOT have to be two and half hours long. I read the article somebody posted earlier where he said the initial cut was almost 4 hours, I can't fucking imagine how boring that cut is.

 

You don't need to cut to somebody breathing heavily looking scared 5 times in a row to convince the audience they're having a bad time. Aster either thinks "this looks so good I'm going to milk it and I don't care about the pacing" or "the audience is fucking dumb they don't know what a panic attack looks like, even though I mentioned she has panic attacks a couple times already"

 

I 100% understand hating how slow this movie is but I kinda loved the pacing

 

It didn’t need to be quite as long, it probably would have worked at 2 hours 5 minutes or something, but I never felt the pacing was off. I think that might partially come from the arthouse-y elements that some might not be as used to. But this movie can just lose or shorten a couple scenes and probably get across the same stuff.

 

Agreed. I can see where it could have been shortened and it wouldn’t have lost anything but I also don’t mind it as it is

 

yeah, it definitely felt long, but I attributed most of that to the dread building up inside of me and not really knowing how far from the end we were, like, I could have seen it cutting to black at almost any point during the third act. and I don’t necessarily think that was a bad thing.

you could see that just in the difference between Christian and Palli(?)’s reactions. the women with Dani was a nice mirror to the women around Christian/Maia, and the group reaction to the burning of the temple in the finale was similar, too. it’s definitely their coping mechanism with what they were experiencing, but I don’t really know if was helping or hurting Dani overall.