Midsommar's Audiovisual Tricks

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  • @ZarrysLux
    @ZarrysLux 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2480

    *and Florence Pugh's acting is fucking good*

    • @Zatoka.
      @Zatoka. ปีที่แล้ว +1

      More than good. She's next level.

    • @gluttonousghost
      @gluttonousghost 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      that scene, you know the one i'm talking about. just wow..

  • @PeterPeh
    @PeterPeh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    Not only "Gassed" is a brilliant soundtrack by Bobby Krlic, but also "Fire Temple" which plays at the end, as Dani watches the temple with Christian inside slowly burn down. To me, this track is emblematic of Dani's emotional state at the end of the film.
    It is such a beautiful, but at the same time so terrifying and ambivalent Adagio! It is the soft and slow flowing string movements that are always accompanied by a subtle and glistening "fear", a foreboding just waiting to erupt. Especially at the end, when the melody at its climax slowly collapses into an atonal, shrieking and buzzing violin chaos, like the burning temple with the people inside itself.
    I have personally never heard anything so hauntingly beautiful and so horrific at the same time. Especially the last part of "fire temple" accompanied by Dani's smile in the final scene gave me the chills!
    Midsommar is an audio-visual masterpiece!

    • @SmConnally1984
      @SmConnally1984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I couldn't agree more. And also the delicate fairytale vibe to the introduction, Prophesy, and also (mainly) in The House that Hårga Built... something about the soft little notes that are plucked, it churned up so many emotions and thoughts in me. The soundtrack is incredible. I actually listen to it for pleasure.

  • @Bandstand
    @Bandstand 3 ปีที่แล้ว +392

    I might have to sub to you

  • @heavensdoor666
    @heavensdoor666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    How does this only have 650 views??? Finally a video that puts into words my love for the sound design and score. Great work!

  • @thetwelfth9987
    @thetwelfth9987 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    8:38 fun fact, those are cheap IKEA glasses 👉
    They really nailed the Swedish culture

  • @unknownunknown5244
    @unknownunknown5244 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Idk why I got scared more of this video than actually watching the movie. I never find this scary until now.

  • @savagegardenrox
    @savagegardenrox 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder if Aster was at all influenced by the sound design of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, "The Body".

  • @andrewsoto4140
    @andrewsoto4140 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Subbed. Another Aster fan will always get a sub. Can you check out Possessor? Lots of symbolism and nuance in the storytelling.

  • @katiejacobson543
    @katiejacobson543 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2428

    little detail i just noticed now: Dani’s last name is ardor stemming from the latin ardere meaning to burn. how cool!

    • @Agus_Tinax
      @Agus_Tinax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Yes. Ardor in spanish means burning.

    • @alissarmoussa947
      @alissarmoussa947 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      in portuguese 'ardor' refers to a burning feeling

    • @sharknado623
      @sharknado623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      In Italian "ardore" means a burning feeling or passion, even a burning flame.

    • @jaycook6639
      @jaycook6639 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      This is cool, thanks!

    • @pudu666
      @pudu666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Agus_Tinax nope...

  • @brodypenn
    @brodypenn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2714

    Terri's corpse and then Dani's crying was some of the most intense and depressing movie scenes ever. The way it was done with the music and cause of death and long shots makes it my favorite scene, but so terrifying.

    • @heysatan8
      @heysatan8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I know what you mean, i feel exactly the same way about the death in Hereditary and the reaction to it. Deeeeply disturbing in how realistic it felt. Best acting and directing ive ever see

    • @Harmonic_Divergence
      @Harmonic_Divergence 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      that scene with Dani crying made my dog howl when i watched it with him it was so powerful

  • @Minam0
    @Minam0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5020

    The gas mask shot still upsets me when I think about it and the face in the trees. That reveal just felt so purely evil in a way that's hard to explain.

    • @Shiny0285
      @Shiny0285 3 ปีที่แล้ว +365

      I literally never noticed the face in the trees until just now.

    • @daltonhilton5870
      @daltonhilton5870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Time?

    • @elilass8410
      @elilass8410 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@daltonhilton5870 6:27

    • @Kateiswriting
      @Kateiswriting 3 ปีที่แล้ว +419

      What's really unsettling is when the film makes you feel safe, even though you know it shouldn't. There's something so seductive about it and that's part of the horror.

    • @FekraaToy
      @FekraaToy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Shiny0285 عبدالله

  • @KenzieBenzieee
    @KenzieBenzieee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7122

    The tube in Terri’s mouth felt so aggressive. And taking her parents with her had this possessiveness, it made me so uncomfortable.

    • @bellapaton7512
      @bellapaton7512 3 ปีที่แล้ว +380

      That part was terrifying

    • @adaharrisonn
      @adaharrisonn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Well it wasnt really her that killed them or herself. It was Pelle.

    • @TheWelchProductions
      @TheWelchProductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +537

      @@adaharrisonn Where did you get that idea? Terri committed a murder-suicide, gassing her parents and herself while they were asleep.

    • @adaharrisonn
      @adaharrisonn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +326

      @@TheWelchProductions because it was part of pelle's orchestration, at the end you realized he was the one who lured them up there all along and had been planning on doing so from the beginning and had to get rid of people who would stand in the way, as well as the mural at the beginning shows that that event was going to happen. There's of course not proof in the film that it was him but it was highly hypothesized because he had to do something to begin to break Dani down emotionally to get her to agree to going on the trip.

    • @skyandclouds5625
      @skyandclouds5625 3 ปีที่แล้ว +248

      @@adaharrisonn that's what I think too. Dani even said the message was weird and didn't sounds like her sister.

  • @fatuousinnovatorofsadness4640
    @fatuousinnovatorofsadness4640 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6229

    Dani's trauma is also represented by yellow. You see it become more prominent as the film goes on and even in the opening shot; from the color surrounding her parents and sister to being the thing she puts he boyfriend inside of and burns into pieces, covered in a flower dress that is itself half yellow.
    Burning the trauma she hates.
    Wearing the trauma she needs.
    And it conveys this message to us only through color throughout the film.

    • @flux.aeterna
      @flux.aeterna 3 ปีที่แล้ว +294

      Well spotted!
      Yellow is also very fitting for this film, since it typically represents sunlight, joy, flowers, and at the same time also is the color of warning signs, caution tape, and some poisonous animals. It’s a perfect and fitting device to use in a film that dresses horror in the warm light of day.

    • @Crazymota
      @Crazymota 3 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      One of the flowers in the film in the beginning, the part where they are walking through the forest, the little yellow flowers are apparently St. John's wort which has antidepressant properties to it... Dani suffers from anxiety for sure and likely depression.

    • @Jay-qh6uv
      @Jay-qh6uv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Her sister is also wearing a yellow shirt and uses a yellow hose to commit the murder/suicide. Her parents are sleeping in yellow sheets.

    • @lubby9438
      @lubby9438 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      The sun entrance to Hårga is also yellow, adding to the warning theme of the color.

    • @Crazymota
      @Crazymota 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lubby9438 yes!!!

  • @katdroidd
    @katdroidd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6951

    Interestingly, Dani's cries are blended in to the music at the beginning of the film, while Christian's cries at the end are masked by the music. We know this because someone removed the music layer of the end scene to reveal the actors sounds.

    • @spacepulse836
      @spacepulse836 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      oh God those sounds...

    • @4to5MouseHive
      @4to5MouseHive 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      which videos show this?

    • @4to5MouseHive
      @4to5MouseHive 3 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      @@katdroidd jesus that's haunting. Is there a video that describes how Dani's cries are blended in the music at the beginning?

    • @missbluesea
      @missbluesea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      The cleverness/intertextuality/intersection of this movie and its elements is endlessly impressive! ❤️👌

    • @efoxkitsune9493
      @efoxkitsune9493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      That is so impressive...
      I don't think I have the stomach to listen to it, but wow.

  • @leo_vfx_jpeg
    @leo_vfx_jpeg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9247

    Terri's gas mask shot is an absolutely terrifying piece of imagery that still haunts me to this day.

    • @themcmexchange2938
      @themcmexchange2938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +909

      the opening of midsommar made me contemplate leaving the cinema I had never felt that level of dread watching a movie for the first time ever I questioned "what have I got myself into", ari aster films just hit different, a master of psychological horror.

    • @johnrobinson2228
      @johnrobinson2228 3 ปีที่แล้ว +247

      Yes after that visual I turned off the film and didn’t come back to it for maybe a week or more. It disturbed me in a way no other piece of art ever had before.

    • @danielaardila5081
      @danielaardila5081 3 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      By the time I watched this movie my older sister had tried to commit suicide, watching this scene reminded me a lot of that died, fortunately the way she did it wasn't enough to kill her and I have no idea how Dany was alive after that point, seeing or hearing that someone you love might be death or tried to die is something that I don't wish on anyone. I'm not terrified of that image, I'm saddened by it.

    • @leo_vfx_jpeg
      @leo_vfx_jpeg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      @@danielaardila5081 I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah it's a disturbing scene, and with the additional baggage of familial homicide I can imagine it can be triggering to those who've experience something along those lines...

    • @leo_vfx_jpeg
      @leo_vfx_jpeg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@themcmexchange2938 He knows what gets under our skin and I love him for that.

  • @michaelj1729
    @michaelj1729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1277

    I love Ari Aster's way of directing and every little details he incorporates in every scene specially that bear painting in the beginning while Dani sleeps under it. Midsommar might not be as horrifying as Hereditary but damn it sticks with you after you watch it. Deeply unsettling.

    • @ChanelROETV
      @ChanelROETV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yeah it definitely sticks with you, I couldn’t sleep right for like three days

    • @mothsforeyes
      @mothsforeyes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Rewatching both Hereditary and MidSommar after I lost both my parents last year (mum a week before Christmas) has reinforced MidSommar as my favourite of his feature length films. The way he captures grief throughout both is astounding, but MidSommar really captures the ubiquitous, seemingly banal sting of grief in such a painfully accurate way. At least for me.

    • @GlennDavey
      @GlennDavey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hereditary was meh for me. Didn't quite hold together. But Midsommar I haven't seen because it already terrifies me on an intellectual and emotional level. So there's that.

  • @Strega_del_Corvo
    @Strega_del_Corvo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12008

    Florence Pugh really should have won an award for her performance. I’ve never seen someone display grief so well.

    • @AriDrag
      @AriDrag 3 ปีที่แล้ว +777

      It was superb. I think the only person who rivals her is Toni Collette in Hereditary. I lost a pregnancy once, and her grieving on the bedroom floor after her daughter was killed was a almost identical to what happened to me.

    • @Lilbuckets2
      @Lilbuckets2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      It was breathtaking to watch

    • @canyounot4706
      @canyounot4706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      I think another actor who displays grief well is Ewan McGregor. The man can shatter your heart when the director calls for him to cry

    • @Alyzvettema
      @Alyzvettema 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      I swear tho every time she cried, i was in tears. I just believed everything she was putting out

    • @brainglow_lightbright
      @brainglow_lightbright 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Yeah for sure. But if Collette wasn’t even nominated for her performance in hereditary then Pugh didn’t have a shot unfortunately

  • @TinyLifeboat123
    @TinyLifeboat123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +925

    I just realised the yellow burning triangular house looks like terris mask ... and the smoke comes out the door, where the pipe would be

    • @naan000
      @naan000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      omg... you're right...

    • @sarahl701
      @sarahl701 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      OMG

    • @miramuchachito296
      @miramuchachito296 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Omg. This film has so many hidden details. So much for onr pair of eyes. Masterpiece!

    • @foolishlord192
      @foolishlord192 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Including her past inside, all burned away.

    • @johanaklaudyova8764
      @johanaklaudyova8764 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      A triangle is also a magical symbol for fire. So many clues in this movie fr

  • @mischr13
    @mischr13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1549

    I saw the images she's seeing of her sister as something haunting her. It's fucked up, but my brother died by suicide and even though I never saw him, I would wonder what he looked like. I don't know why I would imagine such a thing, I'm glad I never saw him like that but it doesn't stop my brain from going there...

    • @rentacop7038
      @rentacop7038 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      That's terrible I am sorry for your loss but I think that its better that you didn't see him when that happened that type of visual can be very traumatic same thing happened to my uncles my uncle knew he was dying and went to bed and passed away in his sleep and my other uncle found him dead in his bed and it destroyed him completely

    • @cristinagibson3157
      @cristinagibson3157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Sending you light and love💖🌌 I had a friend that committed suicide...my mom knew the funeral director and I heard all the details. She had a closed casket. I'm still haunted by her and wondering about that night when she was alone.

    • @workchannel8053
      @workchannel8053 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I'm so sorry for you loss. I don't think it says anything bad about you that it's something you wonder about, though. Our brains seek to understand the things that hurt us, and while it can give us some unpleasant thoughts it's completely natural. I hope you're doing ok ❤️

    • @joogullae3456
      @joogullae3456 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Goddamn

  • @ckotcher1
    @ckotcher1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2458

    Once again Ari uses daytime and brightness 🔆 and proves its more terrifying than darkness because there’s nowhere to hide. And of course he incapsulates grief perfectly. Unlike most movies where someone cries and then you never see them grieve again, Dani’s grief haunts her and the audience the whole movie.

    • @heysatan8
      @heysatan8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Just like in Hereditary. *spoiler alert* The way the brother reacts to accidentally killing his sister. How he cant look back at her body and just goes to bed, completely numb and in shock, and then the mothers reaction upon discovering the body.... it was the most realistic and disturbing depiction of s traumatic event i have ever seen! It blew me away and i still cant believe both actors didnt win an academy award for it

    • @ckotcher1
      @ckotcher1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@heysatan8 Excellent point! I found that one of the most realistic and therefore unsettling portrayals of shock and grief as well. People don’t burst into tears right away, they go into shock and freeze or let out an almost inhuman wail. Granted, everyone has a different reaction. But most movies are written to make grief so fake and over the top. And I think both actors in Hereditary (Toni and the son) were robbed at the Oscars as well.

  • @schrodinger1374
    @schrodinger1374 2 ปีที่แล้ว +375

    The image of Terri’s gas mask feels personally terrifying to me. I’ve never lost someone to suicide, but have struggled with it myself. I can usually handle cliche depictions of suicide (hangings, shootings), but this just felt so real. It was like looking at your own corpse. Had to turn off the movie and come back to it later.

    • @Goldlucky13
      @Goldlucky13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      same. i had gnarly ideas for myself in my head. seeing something that isn't as dramatic/romanticized/cheap gore really rocked me. hope you're doing well these days :)

    • @ilonakonradsheim3988
      @ilonakonradsheim3988 ปีที่แล้ว

      In a weird way… it felt like a deja vu for me… I didn’t even get the scene in that moment but it felt like … I knew it in some way. And at the same time so far away and alienated.

    • @RockandRollsince1992
      @RockandRollsince1992 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Watching movies like that when you are close to the same mindset or already in it is extremely terrifying. I felt the same when I watched Joker.

  • @rotroom
    @rotroom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +587

    I never noticed her sisters face in the trees before that shit is terrifying

  • @cassinipanini
    @cassinipanini 3 ปีที่แล้ว +663

    I didn't notice half of these things like the undulating mountains, WOW

    • @Tina_95
      @Tina_95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Same here! This is one of my favorite "horror" movies and I've watched it so many times and never even noticed how much the background is just moving around during the May Queen part. Wild stuff!

    • @GlennDavey
      @GlennDavey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The mountains and the flowers I'm thinking "oh so it's like acid, got it." Probably the best representation of psychedelics I've seen for a while.

  • @pearhouse6350
    @pearhouse6350 3 ปีที่แล้ว +566

    I experienced several back-to-back traumas right before seeing this movie in the theater with close friends (they thought I should get out of the house etc).
    Maybe it was the timing, but I found this movie weirdly and deeply comforting.
    I tried to watch it again recently, and only then did I actually start to get a sense of any discomfort. I was confused - I didn't remember the movie being this unsettling.
    The world just flows differently when you're grieving. There's a disconnect. When you're in it, Dani is a comforting lens of solidarity. When you're out of it or were never in it at all, Dani is a constant reminder of deep discomfort that we either find unfamiliar or all too familiar.
    The fact that the film works so succinctly and objectively with the concept of grief is a marvel of its own.
    The arguments you brought up about how the sound design and visuals work in tandem with the portrayed emotions of Dani is something I never noticed before, and probably one of the most prominent roots of the visceral success of this film.
    Thank you for your analysis!

    • @dude5336
      @dude5336 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I experienced the same thing! When I saw this movie in theaters I had just experienced some horrible stuff (having to do with exactly how danis family died) so when I was watching I thought the ending was so comforting and I found myself wishing I had experienced a support system like she did in the end.I recently rewatched and now that I’m older and a little more healed I was in shock that I ever thought the ending was positive. So weird!

    • @mjodrbirnavalkyrie5830
      @mjodrbirnavalkyrie5830 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Ditto. I watched this movie soon after my dad died by suicide, and found myself happy for Dani who found a support system in her grief where mine was mid-Pandemic. Now a few years healed and I can recognize the cult's love bombing and manipulation of Dani. Which seems obvious now, but to someone who's grieving it could feel like home. Which is one of the reasons I love this movie, that was the horror of it for me. I could have been Dani.

    • @nahleighodriscoll9226
      @nahleighodriscoll9226 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Absolutely agreed. Dani's isolation in her grief gave me some peace of mind because I'd always have to remove myself when I was struggling to keep it together, so not only did I feel the disconnect caused by the grief itself, but a disconnect from my loved ones. The deranged peace she found at the end made me feel hopeful lol. I remember watching this with friends and they'd joke about certain scenes or found it massively disturbing - and it is! - but I remember feeling very irritated with them and further distanced because I'd connected with this film emotionally. Grief is one of the most surreal experiences of anyone's life, and I feel like Midsommar depicted this so amazingly.

    • @cats1900
      @cats1900 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I am so glad to see this comment. I also have experienced this strange comfort.

    • @sydposting
      @sydposting ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There's an unattributed saying: "Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed," or something along those lines. Films like Midsommar completely embody that spirit. Some days, you watch it and you notice new details that disturb you in how much was going on in the background. Other days, you wish you were in Dani's position, invited to this impossibly bright and happy place and made into the Most Important Person. It's a rare story that gives you this feeling, and I love it.

  • @lorenatorquato5047
    @lorenatorquato5047 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4050

    Dani's/Florence's cry is never, ever leaving my brain. It moved me in a way I cannot describe.

    • @kaija9035
      @kaija9035 3 ปีที่แล้ว +279

      its because it isnt pretty. just pure pain in her voice. what an amazing actress she is

    • @theknack
      @theknack 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Same, in the cinema it was so loud/powerful.

    • @blipflipped6680
      @blipflipped6680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      First time she wailed, I felt overwhelmingly distressed, and so sorry for Dani. Like, the film's barely started, and I already wanted to hug her cuz' that's something NOONE deserves to go through.
      But the second time she wailed, after seeing what her boyfriend was doing, I literally cried. By that point, I've followed her story the whole time, invested in her, sympathized with her, rooted for her, saw how terrible Christian is to her, so I cry with her and it was so powerful seeing her purge and let out all of her pain, anxiety, heartbreak and grief she repressed for so long. Florence was so phenomenal, but her crying was so damn authentic and emotional. Crying is the soul's cleansing, it's not meant to look "pretty", and she let LOOSE - which is 100% realistic. She's amazing.

    • @Crazymota
      @Crazymota 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@blipflipped6680 god yes, 💯 to all of this. Her crying made me cry, her anxiety gave me anxiety (I do already have anxiety). I felt like a mirror to her. I have yet to watch this movie and not ugly cry and I've seen it at least 6 times.

    • @MisterWub
      @MisterWub 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Just as painful as Toni Collete’s cry in Hereditary. I’m not sure which one is worse.

  • @abigaileldritch
    @abigaileldritch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +603

    This movie is exactly what it feels like when you live with trauma. It lingers in every single nook and cranny in your brain.

  • @stantwitter1016
    @stantwitter1016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +556

    This is why I don’t understand how Midsommar receives Zero nomination from the Oscar

    • @SteelyDanzig
      @SteelyDanzig 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Because the Academy doesn't like genre movies unless there's a big star attached to it

    • @TheWelchProductions
      @TheWelchProductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I’ve lost all faith in the Academy a long time ago.

    • @shatteredscry
      @shatteredscry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@SteelyDanzig and that right there is the bias to nominations 🤦‍♀️ it’s a shame when people don’t get credit where it’s due.

    • @CausticSpace
      @CausticSpace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Award shows are just elites jacking other elites off.

    • @jbvader721
      @jbvader721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      The Academy always has and always will hold an unfair bias against horror.

  • @Fyctiongal
    @Fyctiongal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +636

    I felt like that horrifying imagery of the family’s death was Dani’s own picture in her mind of it. I assumed that they would have told her on the phone what they found and she then conjured up the image of her sister and parents. Which is horrifying of course. Brilliantly sharing Dani’s trauma with the visual language of cinema 🎬 just subbed to you I love your insights

  • @heysatan8
    @heysatan8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +895

    One of my favorite things about this movie are the psychedelic effects bc of how incredibly accurate they are. As someone who’s done lsd and mushrooms, these effects are the most realistic depiction ive ever seen in film. The undulating mountains and trees, the pulsating flowers... incredible.

    • @GlennDavey
      @GlennDavey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Same here, but gotta add I also thought the undulating mountains served double duty to also represent GAS in the atmosphere...

    • @shaylarobinson3934
      @shaylarobinson3934 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GlennDavey GAS? i’m a little confused

    • @GlennDavey
      @GlennDavey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@shaylarobinson3934 remember how the sister and parents died. The movie is about her grief and guilt.

    • @ShatteredWindowpane
      @ShatteredWindowpane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@GlennDavey That's a cool detail I never noticed. Thanks for that

    • @WobblesandBean
      @WobblesandBean ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yuuuuuup. The subtle undulating of the hills, pulsating, even the air seeming to wave and roll like water was very accurate.

  • @mooni0724
    @mooni0724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +478

    despite Dani never really seeing terry's corpse, it makes sense how it would follow her. she never saw her family when they died, and even if she were given a description it wouldn't be enough to fill in all the gaps. so in response she makes her own reality, she *imagines* what they felt, what they looked like, and how it all went down. it's a natural thing to do during grief i've discovered. i know my grandmother died in her sleep, and everyone says it was peaceful and painless-but i wasn't there, i didn't see it, i don't know all she might've felt in that moment. so somedays i still catch myself doubting, and imagine a reality that's way worse than it actually was

  • @ThomasFlight
    @ThomasFlight 2 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    Absolutely love this breakdown! Midsommar is one of the most unsettling movies I've seen and I've avoided examining it because I don't want to have to watch it that much, so I appreciate you doing the dirty work.

    • @SpikimaMovies
      @SpikimaMovies  2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Much appreciated Thomas. It was definitely painful to be in 'Midsommar mode' for a few weeks. Not to mention listening to that song repeatedly. Phew, that was a dark time.

  • @SpikimaMovies
    @SpikimaMovies  3 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    What's your favourite moment from Midsommar?
    *Also, in the Director's Cut, before Christian gets put into the bear, the man exposes Christian's legs and unravels a razor floss before cutting to the next scene. He may have cut Christian's legs off to fit him in the bear :D Have a wonderful day. (Was making my booklet and just thought I'd share this with everyone. Cheers)

    • @Zeburakeki
      @Zeburakeki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The ending!

    • @TheLazyReviewer
      @TheLazyReviewer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      That fucking opening scene!!! Holy shit one hell of a way for the film to start. But also the scene where Dani breaks down and the cult mimics her crying that was unsettling and somehow endearing

    • @braydongreen9943
      @braydongreen9943 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Cliff scene lives in my mind rent free always

    • @rjrentie1107
      @rjrentie1107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      The cult's mirroring of Dani's heartbreak scene. That scene always freezes my blood every time i see it

    • @DiinoZenny
      @DiinoZenny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The cliff scene. The beautiful blue of the clothes, the white of the rocks, and the red. That music too.

  • @IVISMiLESIVI
    @IVISMiLESIVI 3 ปีที่แล้ว +654

    This guy needs to analyze Annihilation if he hasn't already. That movie is beautiful and terrifying. The soundtrack is equally so.

    • @OttoSomething
      @OttoSomething 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      That movie is one of the few movies I have ever seen that I immediately re-watched after my first viewing. It was an experience.

    • @patthomas2013
      @patthomas2013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      The books are really great too! Highly recommend if you're into sci-fi

    • @IVISMiLESIVI
      @IVISMiLESIVI 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@patthomas2013 I'm not one for books but I might make an exception for this.

    • @AAFinkle
      @AAFinkle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@IVISMiLESIVI I got sucked into the books just to understand the world more, I rarely do that, and it was enthralling

    • @KayMarieD
      @KayMarieD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@IVISMiLESIVI they are short if that helps. I'm slow at reading and I finish in a day. That and I couldn't put it down

  • @malako777A
    @malako777A 3 ปีที่แล้ว +526

    I just want to hold Dani and just tell her that she is not alone...

    • @kaija9035
      @kaija9035 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      but that is part of the horror... she is alone and so are you. which makes this movie so genius

    • @jayreese8522
      @jayreese8522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      That's exactly what got her into Harga - them embracing her and saying that she wasn't alone.

    • @WhiteChocolate74
      @WhiteChocolate74 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      She's a sweetheart

  • @mollytaylor8122
    @mollytaylor8122 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    5:40 "The line between noise and music becomes clouded."
    Honestly, I feel like that sentence perfectly sums up the entire plot of the movie. At the start of the movie, Dani's life has been nothing but dissonant noise - a sister to constantly watch out for, a boyfriend who is distant and somewhat emotionally abusive, etc. The cult takes advantage of this by placing her in the middle of the Midsommar festival. The place is an absolute dream, where reality is mixed up and the impossible becomes truth...but Dani is constantly at war with herself, questioning whether it's a good dream or a nightmare. By the end, she has gone through so much trauma and confusion that she loses the ability to tell the difference between heaven and hell - music and dissonant noise - entirely.
    So, in a way, I suppose the entire movie was foreshadowed in the first 12 minutes by the "music" score alone.

  • @elsakristina2689
    @elsakristina2689 3 ปีที่แล้ว +328

    I love horror movies, I love Sweden and so far I've only been able to watch this movie in full ONCE. It made me that uncomfortable. Hearing Dani crying and screaming is the most heartbreaking sound I've ever heard in a film. It completely overwhelms you, it makes you hope and pray you'll never have any reason at all to cry like that. When it shows her sister dead, I can't even look at her. It's the most horrifying movie opening I've ever seen. Ari Aster is a GENIUS. He's definitely one of my favourite filmmakers. He understands anxiety, despair, trauma, how it manifests and its impacts so deeply.

    • @heysatan8
      @heysatan8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Have you seen Hereditary? There is a very similar scene in that with toni collete scream crying that shakes you to your very core. Deeply disturbing and realistic and heartbreaking. Ari Aster is a genius, agreed

    • @michelleang9870
      @michelleang9870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's because Ari was going through a breakup/divorce when he made his movies. He knows what grief is.

    • @elsakristina2689
      @elsakristina2689 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@heysatan8 I saw it a couple months after I first watched Midsommar. Wasn’t able to rewatch that for a year either.

  • @personperson4708
    @personperson4708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    I almost sense a jealousy in Dani from the dream sequences. Terri took her parents to be with her - they are together in death as a family. Terri looks over at her from the bed, possessively near their parents

  • @GettinSpooky
    @GettinSpooky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +338

    omg I have seen this movie so many times and I never noticed the flowers or the mountains. HOLY. SHIT

    • @Guerrillablackdog
      @Guerrillablackdog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same! My mind was blown! 🤯

    • @Crazymota
      @Crazymota 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I just noticed the mountains but noticed the other stuff.

    • @gena9731
      @gena9731 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      same!!! wow

    • @GlennDavey
      @GlennDavey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The mountains also look like there's a gas leak somewhere... so many layers

    • @bunnywavyxx9524
      @bunnywavyxx9524 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      same I remember the flowers/plants growing and moving but somehow not the pulsating flower? or the moving mountains or blooming flowers. It becomes normal to us just like it does for Dani. Woah.

  • @lordgrompuluskevinribbiton4319
    @lordgrompuluskevinribbiton4319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    uploaded 17 seconds ago.
    So early I can't even think of a cringe comment to post.

    • @SpikimaMovies
      @SpikimaMovies  3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Well you may be one of the few who caught me uploading this vid without a proper title.

    • @lordgrompuluskevinribbiton4319
      @lordgrompuluskevinribbiton4319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@SpikimaMovies Lol. BTW I really enjoy your video analyses. I have been binge watching them lately. You have a great ability to deconstruct individual scenes and why they invoke terror in the audience. Keep that baking that fresh content.

    • @austins.2495
      @austins.2495 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lordgrompuluskevinribbiton4319 no, you nailed the cringey comment. Bragging about being early to a TH-cam video is like bragging about pooping 4 times a day or something. No one cares, and it means nothing. Go outside, kid.

    • @lordgrompuluskevinribbiton4319
      @lordgrompuluskevinribbiton4319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@austins.2495 Hello there. I do not see my previous post as boastful. To me, commenting on how quickly you saw a video was uploaded is not inherently cringeworthy. Rather, it is the lazy, crude zingers people attach to such comments in a futile attempt to sound edgy that makes them cliche, repetitive, and ultimately cringe-inducing. Perhaps that was the original sentiment I wanted to highlight when I wrote the comment. In any case, I would encourage you to act a little less spiteful when you interact with others. I understand that this is the internet and most people are inherently vicious, but that is no excuse for you to act in a similar way.
      Also, did you know that Austin is a contraction of Augustinus, a Latin derivative of Augustus? It became very popular throughout much of Western Europe after the death of Saint Augustine of Canterbury, who brought Christianity to England.
      Have a wonderful day, friend.

  • @ellaboehme6748
    @ellaboehme6748 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Midsommar is the only film that’s ever emotionally terrified and impacted me in a way I can’t explain. It’s the only movie that’s ever really scared me. As a filmmaker, I’m obsessed with the art of the film and how creative and genius it is that it scared me so much, but yeah. Still extremely traumatic.

    • @isabella4672
      @isabella4672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Daylight horror is so hard to achieve, but ari did it so well this is why he is my favourite director, I've seen so many horror movies but this is the one that has really stuck with me.

    • @SmConnally1984
      @SmConnally1984 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly. It's a flawless masterpiece and one of the rare examples of art (be it music, film, painting, sculpture, etc) being so closely connected to the source of the feelings depicted, that it is truly unsettling... because it is TRUE tapped into the Source...of... whatever it is that's being mined..

    • @StainsStainsStains
      @StainsStainsStains 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "as a filmmaker"
      Yeah, im one of those too, everyone is apparently.

    • @ellaboehme6748
      @ellaboehme6748 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@StainsStainsStains it’s almost like the large majority of people who’d watch a video essay on analyzing a films audio visuals are filmmakers 🫠

    • @StainsStainsStains
      @StainsStainsStains 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ellaboehme6748 You arent a filmmaker and neither is the large majority of people who'd watch a video essay. I dont know what youve done to convince yourself that youre a filmmaker but whatever it is, i doubt its enough to call yourself one.

  • @metamorphoseis_
    @metamorphoseis_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    I'm convinced that this director has a thing for the horror in breathing bc in hereditary there was something similar in the mother crying after, well, you know (don't wanna spoil the movie)

    • @mehya3266
      @mehya3266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Right? Hearing Dani cry and scream made me think of that scene too!!

  • @porkeywings
    @porkeywings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    I watched this movie high asf expecting a normal horror movie. Didn't sleep well that night I kept seeing the images of the death scenes every time I closed my eyes. I've never had a film disturb me that much before. What a masterpiece of terror, Ari Aster is a genius.

  • @deburrito6882
    @deburrito6882 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    The pulsating flower literally just sent chills down my arms, that is so trippy

  • @goblin_corpse
    @goblin_corpse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    I've always loved the use of minimal sound in Asian horror, it's so effective compared to the typically over-wrought scores of American films. So it was really a refreshing change to watch a film like Midsommar that used silence so elegantly and effectively.

  • @sal7355
    @sal7355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    the way Midsommar deals with grief, but also cults is just astonishing. Before going to the cult, all of the visuals are mundane and gray. After, the imagery is bright and comforting. It tricks the viewer into comfort. Horror films are dark, but happier films are light in color. it makes the viewer subconsciously think “this place can’t be so bad,” like the way someone being tricked into joining a cult may think. it’s just so cool.

  • @Valeirra
    @Valeirra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    god, I love this movie. movies that mess with you psychologically are some of the most impressive out there. if i'm gonna take the time to watch a "scary" movie, I want to be legitimately scared. no jump scares, no tricks, no gore, just straight up mental fuckery. just like he said in the video, I truly felt like dani by the end, just like you're supposed to. so amazing, thank god for ari aster

    • @NickJJU
      @NickJJU ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree, but there was definitely gore in Midsommar

  • @shatteredscry
    @shatteredscry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    It seems more effective that we didn’t even hear the phone call between Dani and the police, because getting news like that can’t be fathomed.

    • @SethHMG
      @SethHMG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’ve made a few notifications like that and takes everything out of everyone. Made my hands shake.

    • @shatteredscry
      @shatteredscry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SethHMGNow, unfortunately, I know what that’s like

  • @TaylorLee
    @TaylorLee ปีที่แล้ว +21

    One of the strongest scenes to me was after she saw her boyfriend cheating on her and she cried with the group of girls. The way they cried in sync and displayed empathy was just so strong and moving. It’s truly a feeling that cannot be described. The deepest form of empathy.

  • @SingingWolf98
    @SingingWolf98 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    "Anxiety is a subjective nightmare that is impossible to fully communicate and share"
    that's.... beautiful in its accuracy

  • @charlesandhisworld
    @charlesandhisworld 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    holy shit i didn't even notice the moving mountains

  • @Soph-bg1vo
    @Soph-bg1vo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I've never even noticed some of these effects, especially the breathing flower. Super unsettling and impactful when you notice

  • @luismacara8467
    @luismacara8467 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    The only scene that really got to me was the crying scene, It was by far the most hateful, most rage-inducing thing I've ever seen. When she is crying and they are around her mimicking, I don't remember the last time I felt so much rage and hate at the same time, it was disgusting on so many levels I hardly could see it throughg

    • @wickandwax
      @wickandwax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Really? I found it extremely cathartic.

    • @luismacara8467
      @luismacara8467 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@wickandwax I have no idea how that's possible. That was the most disturbing scene I've seen in my life, maybe it's because I feel like they are robotic leeches feeding of her pain and amplifying it while pretending to care. It's pure evil, I think even Hitler would think that that was way too far

    • @wyattmilliken3320
      @wyattmilliken3320 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      ​@@luismacara8467
      ok dude calm down.

    • @janestauss1057
      @janestauss1057 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      See I find it funny that you took anger and rage from that when on my first watch through that scene was tremendously comforting haha

    • @Mahmoud.Kiblawi
      @Mahmoud.Kiblawi ปีที่แล้ว

      @@luismacara8467 that is pretty fucked u not that I think about it

  • @markec123
    @markec123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I think this movie will be way more appreciated in a few years than it is now. Hereditary was just too hard to follow up and people thought something similar has to follow and rated the movie comparing it to Hereditary. I thought it was incredible and harrowing and Aster directed this movie perfectly. Could become the new The Shining level of appreciation after few years. Can't wait to see more from Aster.

    • @Crazymota
      @Crazymota 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I saw Hereditary before Midsommar but I still prefer Midsommar. I identified with Dani so much, Florence's depiction of anxiety feels so real. When she has anxiety and cries I felt it and cried too.

  • @SEAsnake22
    @SEAsnake22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I wouldn’t consider myself a sensitive person but during that scene with Dani crying I almost had to leave the theater. Absolutely amazing work

  • @summerskull9379
    @summerskull9379 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Holy shit that's terrifying 6:26 I wish someone would make an entire video of these shots

  • @gabriellebueche3643
    @gabriellebueche3643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I thought your take was pretty unique compared to others, really focusing on the technical details that shape the narrative. I thought you really illuminated the abstract narrative (when things are for us, when they are for Dani, what aster was saying about specific experiences, how we're made anxious) by pointing out the concrete means thru which they are implied (the framing, background images, the breathing flower). Awesome job!

  • @goldbirdcages
    @goldbirdcages 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Hearing Dani's screaming flowing into the violins at the start of the movie still blows my mind!

  • @OCMOOO
    @OCMOOO 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Wonder Ari Aster sleeps well with all that genuinely gut-churning imagery
    Chirst imagine having a bad trip watching his movies

    • @user-yv9iw5bg3t
      @user-yv9iw5bg3t ปีที่แล้ว

      This movie itself is a bad trip…

  • @hareypujols9059
    @hareypujols9059 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Also, I watched this very high and I’ve never gotten such bad anxiety from a movie, but like I loved it cause it wasn’t just some jumpscare stuff

    • @Crazymota
      @Crazymota 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Omg! Right! I already have anxiety and watched it high and it made me fucking wail and gave me so much anxiety the first time.

    • @kurtyking6424
      @kurtyking6424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I watched on edibles with a friend and they made me pause the movie at the cliff scene so they could have a lie down. We’d bother seen it multiple times before

    • @Crazymota
      @Crazymota 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kurtyking6424 I watched it on edibles too!

  • @madeofmeats
    @madeofmeats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I really really love this movie and how much it jerks you around and surprises you, so imagine my disdain when I watched it with my mom and she managed to call out basically every twist haha

    • @andrewstephens5885
      @andrewstephens5885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it is very predictable if you’re paying attention and thinking lol

    • @4to5MouseHive
      @4to5MouseHive 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      what twist lmao

    • @madeofmeats
      @madeofmeats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@andrewstephens5885 well she predicted the sister killing the parents like a minute in and then she also predicted Christian being sanctioned to mate with Maya before he even spoke to the elder. This is the same woman who falls asleep during every movie she watches, it took me by surprise

  • @DiinoZenny
    @DiinoZenny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Just found this channel today. Now one of my favorites. These are great!

  • @patthomas2013
    @patthomas2013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Really great additional analysis. It's important to really understand Dani's trauma and lonliness in order to fully understand how someone as vulnerable as her can be manipulated into an utterly evil cult of people (who have mastered the guise of a sweet, pious town). She is so empty of love and so full of fear and anxiety, so much that I want to cry for her, and hold her that she can not truly mourn with the distractions of lore and drugs. I truly hate Pelle. He's truly the main antagonist and has no love for Dani--he could care less about the death of her family (he allows his brother to die, and implies his parents died via ritual as well).

  • @madhavsankaranarayanan4588
    @madhavsankaranarayanan4588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Unpopular opinion: Midsommar>Hereditary

    • @Aster_Risk
      @Aster_Risk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I agree, even though I like hereditary. I relate to Dani so much from Midsommar, and it made it hard for me to to like it more.

    • @madhavsankaranarayanan4588
      @madhavsankaranarayanan4588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Aster_Risk Exactly! Plus the visuals are just stunning!

    • @TheWelchProductions
      @TheWelchProductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Both great movies, but Midsommar was just something else. I've never seen anything like it.

    • @BackwoodsFilms
      @BackwoodsFilms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hereditary hit me harder, but I can see how some people would like Midsommar better. The fact that Aster was able to unsettle people to that degree when almost everything happened in broad daylight is a testament to his genius as a horror director.

    • @KICK839
      @KICK839 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Midsommar is disturbing

  • @siqnoir3626
    @siqnoir3626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The first time I watched this movie, I was blown away. I told myself I had to watch it on hallucinogenics next. I did. Not the best idea. I was so immersed and literally felt uncomfortable and unsettled the entire time

  • @JenIsRaadd
    @JenIsRaadd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Want your videos to last hours😭 keep up the amazing work

    • @SpikimaMovies
      @SpikimaMovies  3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      What a compliment. Thank you

  • @NootalieWalf
    @NootalieWalf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I can’t even watch an analysis of this damn movie without shattering into tears thinking about Dani. The way the movie conveys anxiety and PTSD (and psychedelics) is disturbingly accurate and really really painful to watch and think about.

  • @cryvengeance
    @cryvengeance 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    you're officially up there with my 2 other favourite movie "reviewers", spooky rice and dead meat

  • @whiskii
    @whiskii 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    After I watched this movie I went back and watched the ending 3 times, the Fire Temple song along with the ending is just the most incredible mix of disturbing and beautiful I've ever seen. I didn't think it was possible to achieve what Ari did there.

  • @panfluteskeleton
    @panfluteskeleton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'm gonna put myself through a wall if Ari Aster doesnt make any more movies

    • @trashdotcom753
      @trashdotcom753 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He doesn’t want to make any more horror movies apparently

    • @panfluteskeleton
      @panfluteskeleton 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@trashdotcom753 I heard that too. Which is totally fine for me. I'd watch anything he makes

  • @gatheringleaves
    @gatheringleaves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Note to everyone, please watch and listen with headphones for the full experience

  • @songbird6414
    @songbird6414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I’ve been told about seven times to watch this movie, and I finally put it on, going “oh it can’t be that bad”.
    I was not prepared in the slightest.

  • @joeltheowl3299
    @joeltheowl3299 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    To think this movie came out only 1 year after Hereditary a still has this insane amount of detail. Ari Aster is a beast.

  • @rinsen_repeat
    @rinsen_repeat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    that scene where the old woman just splat on the rock: 10/10 bullseye perfect shot 👌

  • @TheLazyReviewer
    @TheLazyReviewer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Another great video and analysis of what makes this masterpiece works in unsettling the audience

  • @Creed329
    @Creed329 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This is great content dude, your channel will definitely blow up

  • @emmamay5469
    @emmamay5469 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I can't stop seeing yellow everywhere now!

  • @MemoryColor
    @MemoryColor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    One thing that I noticed when first watching this movie is how Terri has the "gas mask" and vomit on her T-shirt in reality, but when Dani has flashbacks of the event, there is either no "gas mask" or vomit on her shirt.

  • @AnneSofieLovesMozart
    @AnneSofieLovesMozart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Look at that disturbing, grinning sun in the opening picture, top right. Then think about the last picture of the film. Dani, smiling, devoured by light.

  • @ziedlazrak76
    @ziedlazrak76 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Maaan, i love your videos so much. Would love to see your take on the Suspiria remake.

  • @angledcoathanger
    @angledcoathanger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Just subscribed, really enjoy your work mate, keep it up!

  • @divinefistkazuya
    @divinefistkazuya 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    So early I thought it was an ad.

  • @velveetaenthusiast
    @velveetaenthusiast 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I remember I snuck alcohol in to watch midsommar because I'd seen hereditary and I knew it'd wreck me. During the particularly crunchy scene involving the cliff, it got really quiet. My drunk ass said, "Bruh" and I heard nervous chuckling. I said what everyone thought and I have no proof.

    • @tajzu
      @tajzu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      LMFAOOO THIS SHIT NEEDS THOUSANDS OF LIKES that's soo fucking funny

  • @man-sb4gs
    @man-sb4gs ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Did anybody else notice that the scene at 5:50 also looks like the first shot? The blue painting on Dani’s side (the moon, skull, death, sadness) and the lighter, orange painting on Christian’s side (the sun and fire which ends up killing him). Also the plant too? Just interesting.

  • @empress_m
    @empress_m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    goddamn your channel is a hidden gem.

  • @daftymilk7601
    @daftymilk7601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Have you ever consumed a piece of content so good that it was almost difficult watch? That’s exactly how I felt watching the movie as well as this video! Great stuff

  • @Kay-kg6ny
    @Kay-kg6ny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Just coming down here to say thanks for always having Korean subtitles for all your vids! I started learning Korean specifically because of Korean films and it's nice to have practice reading and writing about movies in Korean!

  • @aceofbastone
    @aceofbastone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Just found your channel recently, love the content dude

  • @poodled7794
    @poodled7794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Your channel is a treat! Such a great analysis and beautifully presented, keep doing what you do!

  • @DARESQUAD
    @DARESQUAD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Spikimas channel is primed to boom any time now, amazing video as always :)

  • @themcmexchange2938
    @themcmexchange2938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    New Subscriber here! Excellent video essay just when thought i couldn't love this movie anymore I stumble across your content, I really like how you put in your Own Audiovisual tricks felt like you were casting a spell on us lol , the opening of midsommar made me contemplate leaving the cinema I had never felt that level of dread watching a movie for the first time ever I questioned "what have I got myself into", ari aster films just hit different, a master of psychological horror.

    • @SpikimaMovies
      @SpikimaMovies  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You totally got it- i always add a small trick to my vids that fits w the movie or subject in question. First person to notice and mention that ;)

    • @themcmexchange2938
      @themcmexchange2938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SpikimaMovies I'm flattered that I'm the only one that noticed lol !I'm somebody that loves looking in-between the lines and understanding High concept Pyschological storytelling and Hidden Subtext Exposition Most Filmakers never dare to create this type of content because it's incredibly hard to pull off but when executed properly it really is perfection Huge kudos to Ari and to you 💯 , I look foward to your future uploads and exploring your content 👌

    • @shaylarobinson3934
      @shaylarobinson3934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what’s the trick??

  • @countbrackmoor
    @countbrackmoor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This makes me wanna watch it for a 3rd time but my god the runtime

  • @lemonasticlaifu1505
    @lemonasticlaifu1505 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    9:06 And here I was thinking I was going insane for seeing that moving flower

  • @GlennDavey
    @GlennDavey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The undulating mountains is a common visual effect of psychedelics, but it's also what things look like through gas ..................

  • @castitoss
    @castitoss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is amazing... AMAZING thank you man

  • @rlkimel2219
    @rlkimel2219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I really want you to do “us” I feel like it’d be interesting I know it’s old HAHSHA

  • @slytherinsalazar4668
    @slytherinsalazar4668 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    03:30 As Akira Yamaoka stated:
    "Selecting moments of silence is another way of producing sound."

  • @deliwoman3720
    @deliwoman3720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    this was uploaded a good 30 seconds after I finished your video about Mother haha

  • @melanchoise
    @melanchoise 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You have such an underrated channel! The analysis and explanation is extremely on point. I do have a recommendation for a horror film I love, called Possum, it would be great if you could check it out. Nonetheless, great video and execution!

  • @tristanlanphere7736
    @tristanlanphere7736 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This film really isn’t as good as people say it is, the film has so many plot contrivances. The plot could not carry out if they didn’t dum down every character in the film.

  • @Zeburakeki
    @Zeburakeki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love your videos keep it up!