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For some reason I found her frown when she was in the dress amazing She looked like a character from Kill La Kill
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I had a thought about the ending. We have talked a lot about the film condemning Christian's selfishness, but I feel like the ending might suggest the same about Dani I need to see this again, but my memory of the ending is that Dani is sort of crawling around and wretching and crying as the building burns, and then it cuts to the cultists screaming and thrashing around, and then back to Dani for the last shot where she's smiling, which felt like a continuation of the breathing scene with the other May queens. To me this solidified her place with the cult-- she sacrificed Christian the same as the other members sacrificed loved ones, so she's rightfully a part of their shared grief.
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RichterIX posted:To me this solidified her place with the cult-- she sacrificed Christian the same as the other members sacrificed loved ones, so she's rightfully a part of their shared grief. I think this is a really interesting read, and a very clever one, too.
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Jul 8, 2019 01:21
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One detail I only figured out a while after is that the guy who invites them tells Dani about his parents dying in a fire. Meaning they were sacrifices. Which may color his motivation to be one of the people who goes out into the world to find new bloods?
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Jul 8, 2019 03:35
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Dr. Red Ranger posted:So whenever the group finally makes it to the commune and one of the Elders welcomes them he says "welcome" to everyone except Dani, who he gets to last with "welcome home". It's a neat little bit of foreshadowing because you know it's telegraphing Dani's arc, which you could guess anyway, but nothing about how it's going to happen. A bit like a slasher movie showing you the killer's mode of murder long before it ever gets used. You're going to think about it the entire length of the movie now. holy gently caress I didn't know there was a word for this. I had a meeting with someone a few weeks ago and they had some hosed up dry mouth chapping noise as they were talking, and I just about had to leave the room because of how physically ill/insane it was making me. I just chalked it up to me being a weirdo. ... Uhhhh, Midsommar was really excellent and I loved it. The shaking, crying floral slug is going to be imprinted in my brain forever.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The horror elements also kind of didn't really do much for me. I liked the cliff scene, which reminded me a lot of the one in Songs from the Second Floor by way of, like, Lars von Trier, but the blood eagle was (besides being done better on Hannibal) just kind of...there? The only other bits I can recall are the guy getting bonked on the head and the face in the bathroom, and I guess the ending, but I wouldn't really call that scary. It keeps getting compared to Wicker Man, but in Wicker Man the protagonist has a belief system and a perspective and there’s a conflict way above and beyond “weirdos killing people”. This is much more like Wrong Turn by way of Hostel made by someone who really liked A Field in England. It was ok
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Jul 8, 2019 06:36
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Gaunab posted:Thinking back to the ending Dani in the huge May queen flower dress stoically sentencing Christian to death and watching the building burn is probably one of the funniest scenes in the movie. I was holding in my laughter. It was so absurd. I love this movie so much.
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Jul 8, 2019 06:39
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I loved this movie. Saw it on Friday and it's been floating around in my head ever since. I had a really palpable sense of dread for the entire movie that reminded me of the onset of a panic attack. I don't know if it was the knowledge that something bad was going to happen soon, or the scenes where characters were using hallucinogens and the visuals would start distorting, or the lighting or just feeling for Dani. But near the end, when you see them bringing the bodies to be sacrificed, specifically Matt's face on a loving doll made out of straw? I audibly said "hooooooollly poo poo" loud enough that my wife turned to me and asked if I was okay. I'll want to watch this again for sure, hopefully in theaters, so I can watch everything with the knowledge of the ending in mind.
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Jul 8, 2019 14:45
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A Fancy Hat posted:I had a really palpable sense of dread for the entire movie that reminded me of the onset of a panic attack. I don't know if it was the knowledge that something bad was going to happen soon, or the scenes where characters were using hallucinogens and the visuals would start distorting, or the lighting or just feeling for Dani. felt the same way - it really started getting amped right at the beginning of the attestupa scene because from the get-go i'm thinking oh god they're gonna jump when they get up there aren't they and that feeling didn't leave me for the rest of the movie. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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Jul 8, 2019 14:51
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Yes! I love that setup. It's so gradual. You first see the wall, then the "gravestones", then the precipice above the wall, and then the anvil stone. At that point, my body was tense and I stayed that way, too.
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Jul 8, 2019 15:19
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bort posted:Yes! I love that setup. It's so gradual. You first see the wall, then the "gravestones", then the precipice above the wall, and then the anvil stone. At that point, my body was tense and I stayed that way, too. it's great when you realize that pelle wasn't joking when they asked what happens at 72 and he makes the throat gutting gesture.
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Jul 8, 2019 15:26
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Speaking of the attestupa, two things about that scene for me very subtle way to slip in "cell phones dont work" without calling unnecessary attention to it, really liked that And more importantly, how much did Josh actually know about the attestupa? He seems to know what it is but still is shocked and horrified with everyone else when it happens. Like, he knows the two old people will be the participants and is taking notes, but freaks out with everyone else when they actually die. Did he assume it was gonna be a tamer or more neutered version?
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Jul 8, 2019 15:33
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Mel Mudkiper posted:And more importantly, how much did Josh actually know about the attestupa? i looked it up afterwards and the word means exactly what happened but my guess is he expected them to jump off out of view and also not having the coup de grace with a mallet.
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Jul 8, 2019 15:37
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Someone captured the mural at the beginning of the movie and it is INCREDIBLE https://www.reddit.com/r/Midsommar/comments/cadpc2/spoiler_the_mural_flashed_on_the_screen_in_the/ Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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Jul 8, 2019 16:56
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Someone captured the mural at the beginning of the movie and it is INCREDIBLE Thanks for this. Much like the obituary at the beginning of Hereditary, as soon as the movie was over I was wishing I could go back and look at the mural again.
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Jul 8, 2019 17:10
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lol giving Mark the fools cap is some excellent medieval pagan tapestry shade
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Blast Fantasto posted:Thanks for this. Much like the obituary at the beginning of Hereditary, as soon as the movie was over I was wishing I could go back and look at the mural again. I love the use of umbilical cords as also hoses
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Jul 8, 2019 17:15
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Real talk I spent most of the movie scrutinizing the artwork in the background I think it was when Christian told Josh he was gonna do his project on the village that the whole time I was just looking at the mural in the background about puberty and sex EDIT: I might buy an avatar of the little drumming skeleton. That dude rules  Look at him, you know he is shaking his hips with the music Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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Jul 8, 2019 17:16
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Groovelord Neato posted:i looked it up afterwards and the word means exactly what happened but my guess is he expected them to jump off out of view and also not having the coup de grace with a mallet. I took it as scholarly knowledge vs actually seeing it happen. From the night before, he definitely knew what it meant and had that tense "I'm about to watch something horrible on YouTube" hand-on-face but for real.
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Jul 8, 2019 17:24
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Someone captured the mural at the beginning of the movie and it is INCREDIBLE It's by the artist Mu Pan: http://www.mupan.com/ and is on his website... http://www.mupan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/midsommar_color_web.jpg
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Ape Agitator posted:I took it as scholarly knowledge vs actually seeing it happen. From the night before, he definitely knew what it meant and had that tense "I'm about to watch something horrible on YouTube" hand-on-face but for real. I read his attitude as assuming that they would be doing it in a way that was more like paying homage to the original tradition, rather than literally hurling their elders from a cliff. Too bad they didn't do it the Monty Python way, and chase them with sexy naked people. Olympic Mathlete posted:It's by the artist Mu Pan: http://www.mupan.com/ and is on his website... Oh it's adorable. His garden of earthly delights painting is real good too, maybe Aster's next movie can end with a lion hydra. Or that pooping T-Rex. Magic Hate Ball fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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Jul 8, 2019 17:59
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I read his attitude as assuming that they would be doing it in a way that was more like paying homage to the original tradition He asks “an actual one” and gets the response “pretty darn actual”. I think it’s just not the sort of thing you can prepare for.
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Jul 8, 2019 18:02
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Too bad they didn't do it the Monty Python way, and chase them with sexy naked people. Uh have you seen the movie? Thet had chasing people with naked people thing down
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Jul 8, 2019 18:02
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Uh have you seen the movie? Thet had chasing people with naked people thing down But not off a cliff! Owlofcreamcheese posted:He asks “an actual one” and gets the response “pretty darn actual”. I think it’s just not the sort of thing you can prepare for. I suppose. I thought that segment, and the bit right after, was kind of off-kilter character-wise, but I also felt like I couldn't really get a read on him.
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Jul 8, 2019 18:08
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There's even a little face in the foliage between the third and fourth panels  edit: Annabelle beat it at the box office 
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Jul 8, 2019 19:01
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bort posted:There's even a little face in the foliage between the third and fourth panels Annabelle is a part of a huge franchise produced by New Line and opened in over 1000 more theaters than Midsommar did. They were never really in direct competition.
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Jul 8, 2019 19:09
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I'm more disappointed in people's choices.
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Jul 8, 2019 19:10
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I want it to make a tiny profit because I would rather Aster has a career of making tiny small budget masterpieces than deal with the expectations of a bigger budget. I admire A24s willingness to put out bleak traumatizing horror films that get awful audience scores and make a small profit and that should never change
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Jul 8, 2019 19:13
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it actually got a C+ for a cinemascore which is like an A+++ for these types of movies. lol 
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Jul 8, 2019 19:23
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People are just loving dumb and any movie that’s even slightly off-kilter is going to get dopes making GBS threads on it.
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Jul 8, 2019 19:37
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People were talking about walkouts earlier, and we had one at our showing even though it was just me, my wife, and two other dudes watching alone. It was during the blood eagle scene. Which I found a bizarre time to walk out, because the movie is like 95% over that point - wouldn’t you just want to see how it ends?
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Jul 8, 2019 19:45
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when saw came out the couple in front of me walked out right before the reveal.
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Jul 8, 2019 19:58
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Most walkouts I have seen was Suspira remake
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Jul 8, 2019 20:00
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I really loved the suspiria remake, but for different reasons than the original. It was certainly better than midsommar.
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Of the 6 people in the audience, a couple walked out of the new Chucky remake with about 15 minutes to go..I don't get it either..I mean, yeah, I do get it, that movie was very mediocre but that seemed like a weird stance to take at that point. I had the inverse happen to me once..I was like one of 3 people to go see tragedy girls in its 3 day run or whatever..the movie is about to wrap up in this batshit climax 5 minutes before the thing ends and these two drunk chicks walk in, sit directly in front of me in the empty theater and just chat about nonsense the entire time remaining, then complained loudly that the movie had ended so soon. Made it all the worse that the last bit of the movie was by far the best and the rest was sort of a slog leading up to it zer0spunk fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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Jul 8, 2019 20:18
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Someone captured the mural at the beginning of the movie and it is INCREDIBLE Holy poo poo. Also, if you were staying after the attestupa you're in for a penny, in for a pound, mate! Just sit back and enjoy the ride! One other pedantic point: Whether people ever actually hacked open victims' chests and pulled out their lungs to make a "blood eagle", there's no way you could do that and the person actually breathes. You breathe by your diaphragm and the muscles in your chest wall creating negative pressure in the chest cavity which forces the lungs to expand and draw in breath via negative pressure, the opposite of blowing up a balloon. Once you've opened up the whole chest to get at the lungs, no way they can expand on their own.
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Zwabu posted:Holy poo poo. the lungs were “breathing” because he was high as gently caress on mushrooms
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Jul 8, 2019 20:21
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Speaking of attestupa,  at Christian saying "we've got to keep an open mind" when dude has just had his melon bashed open by a giant hammer.
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Blast Fantasto posted:the lungs were “breathing” because he was high as gently caress on mushrooms I know, I know
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