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Saw this today, loved it. HEREDITARY and MIDSOMMAR feel like dark and light sides of the same moon, in the way they handle grief. I'm really interested in the occult, especially non-"orientalized" occult depictions, things like American folk magic, European witchcraft, etc. That stuff shows you things you find aaaallllmost familiar but puts a creepy spin on them. In the same way, any of us who have been around (or who have been) someone who suffered a major tragedy know how that kind of thing makes the griever felt out of place, uncanny, eerie against "normal" life. I like the way occult fuckery stands in for the mysteries of a grieving heart. I don't know if this film hit me quite as hard as HEREDITARY, but it hit me in a different way for sure and I really responded to it. I think it's beautifully shot and I think the score and sound design are incredible. It wasn't a mallet to the skull like HEREDITARY but it was such a creepy slowly ratcheting uneasiness. I wonder which will stand the test of time better (if either) (hopefully both!). Weird question about sound design, mid-movie spoilers just in case: during a scene towards the middle, Josh and Christian are starting to argue about their thesis and later Dani goes to sleep and has a bad dream. Was there a ringing phone-type sound effect behind it, like the sound of the phone from the beginning? I couldn't tell if it was some alarm in my theater or a callback to the phone call, but it was really unnerving. quote:Any ideas on what happened to Will Poulter's douchey character? He was killed off screen, but I *think* it showed him half-naked in the temple when the other character was trying to photograph the holy texts. He appeared swollen like he was having an allergic reaction? They skinned him. Remember how they were playing "skin the fool"? He was the vapin' fool. Someone was wearing him like a mask in the book temple but they show his straw-stuffed skin corpse later in the yellow pyramid. That Dang Dad fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jul 3, 2019 |
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Thom and the Heads posted:re: that particular sequence:  that makes me, like, existentially nauseous
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Groovelord Neato posted:
Very much so, which made me think of how I felt after watching a film like, say, Rosemary's Baby. It's such a deliciously evil way to make horror more horrible
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a new study bible! posted:So what's the moral of this movie? Shared emotional vulnerability forges uncannily strong bonds.
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