Dani is not having a good time. Some serious family drama puts her in a very bad place emotionally and her dingus boyfriend is beyond worthless. While in this fragile state, she makes the fateful decision to join her college student boyfriend and his buddies on a trip to a remote area in Sweden to study a midsummer celebration put on by a commune. Once there, it quickly become obvious to the viewer that these people have watched Herschell Gordon Lewis' TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! way too many times, but our heroes don't realize this and continue on as things get more and more sinister. It's great.
MIDSOMMAR is an awesome movie experience. I saw it in the theater four times. The story itself is very good, but the thing that I enjoyed most is the feel and construction of the movie. It's hard to explain, but the whole thing just felt ominous and hateful. I loved it! Beautiful photography, outstanding acting, perfect pacing, unnerving stuff going on in the background, Florence Pugh looking absolutely gorgeous, synchronized screaming, synchronized hypermourning, synchronized sex moaning, suicide, a hammer smashed face, an Austin Powers reference, a celebration of death, people who you don't want to see naked...naked, a woman with an unexplained fresh cut on her face, a bear and so much more. Including a badass ending that left me wanting more. It honestly felt like the movie was just revving up to the perfect speed and...it ends! I loved it. Ari Aster is quickly becoming one of my favorite modern directors.
Not sure why, but I think MIDSOMMAR would make an interesting double feature with SOCIETY.
