Midsommar
2019
🎯 Verdict
✍️ Full Review
Well, that's one way to battle bereavement…. Nine-day trippy festivities recipe for healing from grief. Midsommar is why Florence Pugh is where she is today. Even though I personally have an innate sense of aversion to anything ritualistic, Midsommar here was truly a jarring and hypnotic experience. Even the way the camera moved, it felt like it itself was on mushrooms. Also felt like Aster sprinkled clues, signs and symbols all around which I totally couldn't focus on due to the graphic depictions of the cult customs, the ambient sounds, the haunting background score and the sudden and abrupt noise bursts inducing my mind into trance and prying it out of it.Which is great because it means I can't wait for a rewatch. It's also amazingly funny how despite being very niche in themes and clues, this horror film stays true to the formula of characters vanishing after splitting one by one. Whether it was a parodied design or sincere, I don't know. But, at least picking apart the group with the instruments being their personal indulgences through customized weaponizing of their own issues/weaknesses was a nice touch. Overall, great potential avenues for fresh new unique nightmares in future. Midsommar makes The Lottery read like one of those feel-good hallmark Christmas romcom stories. Shirley Jackson would have been disturbed to watch the daring bold nature of this.