Steven King’s story about Alicia and her mother almost made me cry bc I was in such a similar situation my religious parents also sat me down at primary school age to watch the Passion except the moment they realized that on screen torture wasn’t child appropriate the movie was stopped and a different one was put on, I genuinely don’t know why Alicia’s mother didn’t march out of that theater the moment her daughter became scared, poor child was traumatized and I’m so glad my parents had the decency not to do that to me and finish the movie when I was in bed and btw they fucking hated it, to them it was pure exploitation of smth holy

KZfaq recommended this to me after I just finished the incredible 7-hour breakdown of this movie on the Novum channel. So glad to have found it because I just cannot get enough right now

Kind reminder that real midsommar is not a cult and we do not do this 😭❤️ I know some people think the real midsommar is actually a cult when it's just a traditional holiday to celebrate like fertility and the longest days of the year and we eat whipped cream and strawberry cake and traditional food and sometimes go watch or dance around the midsommar pole like little frogs, wear flower crowns and a lot of people also drink a lot 😭 We wear summery clothes and especially like white or something pretty and some wear traditional clothing 😭❤️

I’m so glad to see so many people in the comments be confused about how people smiled and how people thought this was a good ending. I was so worried for a moment there.

Great analysis!

4:16 I assure you that I wasn’t smiling alongside Dani and neither was the friend I was seeing the movie with

A movie starring The Sea! That's really the main character and the setting.

Fantastic video, and just really solidifies my thoughts that DV perpetrators use the same tactics as cults. Also, so do very small, isolated, rural communities in the United States south, amd I am not even talking about religion. It's terrifying. I have to be on constant alert.

Midsommar, Hereditary, The VVitch are all movies where the evil wins at the end. I don’t think I’m brainwashed if I can see and acknowledge that.

Idk anyone that felt happy about the ending with the ending

i had hawaiian mushrooms before the movie and it was an outstanding experience.

I loved this so much!

If you smiled at the end of this movie, you’re a sociopath.

bro you need to be careful bc you are on the nose of something greater and bigger

Christianity, Alt Right…all cults covered ✅🙄

Midsommar: a feminists paradise

I didn’t find much happiness in the ending of the movie. They drugged Christian into taking a young girls virginity, and Dani chose him to be sacrificed because of it. So basically. The cult caused all of that to happen. And Dani was too brainwashed to understand why. She had very limited knowledge of what they did to cause that. But she still chose to sacrifice him.

Bro you really look like Hank Williams.

AMAZING performance with the Dani character.

Why is the assumption that the general audience is cheering at the end?

Who had a warm feeling at the end? I thought it was just an a little on the nose story of being in a pot of water heating up so slowly that you don’t realize it, or finding yourself as just another gear in machine of the status quo.

I thought this movie was garbage when I first saw it. Still think so. But the ideas of it are good. A lot deeper than I gave credit for because of this video. Great work man. Loved it That said. I didn’t smile when she smiled. I couldn’t stand her. The whole movie makes Christian out to be the bad guy. But she was constantly manipulative, overwhelming him and outright insufferable. Idk where this dynamic that she was the good one

This was the first video of yours i came across and i'm obsessed! This was fantastic! Thank you so much for all the work you put into this!! 🫡

i love that they made Christian a character, showed this movie to my bf so he knows 🙏🏼

Antisemitic? Wat is that?

Beautiful dissection of this movie's macabre attempts to weaponize Christianity. Even as someone that isn't a deist, the parts you showed of non-fundamentalist christianity's unconditional love, made me respect and understand its core message more. Amazing video

Midsommar traumatized me and that’s why it’s in my top 5 favorite horror films. Absolutely incredible movie

I thought it was common knowledge that she doesn’t smile because she’s “finally home” she smiles because she’s lost her sanity 😮

It's really scary to see people saying that Dani finds a new "family". A real family takes care of you at the same time that wants you to be independent and strong. It was all manipulation and Ari Aster really amazed me here, making people succumb to the cult's allures like Dani, even seeing all that is happening and knowing all the dirt secrets. Some people are still easy target prey even knowing all the truth. That's a really great video!

The Passion of Bull SHIT!!!

As a woman I no more, know or understand men, anymore than men know or understand me. My knowledge only comes from personal experience and society's warnings of danger from men. So if my experiences are bad I see and expect to see in each successive experience bad. I become so sensitized that I can no longer perceive any other outcome as possible.

It’s honestly terrifying how 1) I forgot this was a horror movie by the end until you said something, and 2) even knowing that, I still like Pelle despite him being a literal predator, still feel happy for Dani knowing she just got indoctrinated into a cult, and still hate Christian even though he’s a literal victim. The psychological mindfork is crazyyyyyy

I don't know what movie this dude watched... . . . And yet, it's interesting how this movie hit people so differently

When I hit the video essay jackpot and find one that leaves me pondering

I want to point out something about the advertising of the movie that was mentioned, because all this pretentious deep diving has me gasping for air. The advertising of the film was done by people who are professional at advertising and not by the makers of it. And I am almost certainly sure that they knew that if the trailer left you feeling like the film in its entirety does the majority of the audience that went to watch wouldn’t have gone.

Great review !! Luv from Portugal 🇵🇹 🥰

I got to a point in which I said: “this is getting too personal”

Watching this movie was like a weird experiment. i was like ᯅ̈ until the end

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"And yet she smiles and we smile" 4:06 WE? NOPE

I find it really hard to believe anyone either genuinely smiled or thought it was a happy ending.

I don't think Amanda was a saint. Even though she recognized how lonely and mentally unhealthy Maude was, she still belittled her instead of reciprocating compassion.

idk about y’all but i was NOT smiling at the end…

Hmm... I in no way got the impression that Dani was happy at the end of the film, nor was she not in danger of being killed by the Harga. I felt as though she was accepting her fate in the end. It did not feel like a happy ending for anyone but the Harga. Just my take.

It's like a Swedish version Wicker Man.

42:50 Also it's more common to have unmarried black couples living together raising kids. The data always states single mother, so conservatives assume it means the father chose tleave.o

Uh…smiling was the last thing I was doing at the end of that movie.

Your reading was interesting, but looking at the film from this perspective severely limits its potential for allegory. IMO the film is a character study that focuses on ego, in an existential sense. Gender is definitely explored as is masculinity, honour, pride, shame ect... but if you narrow it to gender, it narrows your understanding of the text. Maybe that's why you felt the need to write your own ending. But your ending was super Hollywood, spoon feeding very obvious messages about the topic you fixated upon. I think this film is far more complex and nuanced than that.

25:40 Alot like how I experience autism