in the script they chopped Christians legs off before putting him in the bear and connie was drowned by being chained to a rock and thrown into the water. So the movie does show SOME mercy
Midsommar is rather brilliant. It’s one of the most unsettling, uncomfortable films I’ve ever watched. The lush green scenery, bright sunshine, and beautiful artwork adorning almost everything adds to the sense of disorientation and dread. Add in the incredibly realistic portrayals of anxiety/panic attacks, grief, and a toxic relationship, and it’s a gut punch. It’s also weirdly, darkly funny. It’s got everything.
Yeah the shrooms trips are rly well done with their subtlety and I also agree with the dark humor of it. It's actually hilarious if you're in the right mindset and a very realistic(ish) portrayal of how someone at their lowest can easily be coerced into a situation so horrible. Or even more interesting, how a pseudo-intellectualism attempt at understanding a group and being "respectful" can allow for gruesome advantages to be taken of them.
@@johnnyrivas2619 It rains pretty much. But that combined with few hours of darkness in summer makes plants grow very lush and green, so the sunny days are appreciated more. But we can have weeks of sunshine too. The weather is just unpredictable. We even have the saying "There is no bad weather, there is only bad clothing."
Fun fact: The old guy who jumps off the cliff is Björn Andrésen, in the 70's he was "the most beautiful boy", and he actually inspired all your favorite anime pretty boys
Midsommar was one of those movies where I can admire its quality in acting and production, but it's one that I never want to see again. This movie did introduce me to Florence Pugh, who is an outstanding, beautiful actress.
Midsommar happens every 90 years; but they celebrate it annually; which is how they have photos of so many May Queens and why theyre well rehearsed in their traditions
I'm really happy that you immediatly recognized that the guy was being abused. When the movie was new there was a discussion about it because a lot of people said that he was cheating.
I think it was something in between. Yes, he was drugged but he had control over his body and he seemed interested in that girl since the beginning. On some level he really wanted it to happen. But yes, his state of mind during actual sex definitely was altered.
@@Resvain Hhahaha no. You can be abused even for someone you love. Feeling atraction or love or whatever doesnt have anithing to do with cheating unless the person with those feelings decide to put those feelings in actions. He maybe was atracted to the girl but during the whole movie didn't try anything, he had to be drugged and conducted to that place.
@@francisco.hurtado hahahahaha yes. We don't even know what drugs was he on so it's hard to even properly understand or judge it. If you decide to have sex with someone after smoking weed it's still your decision, you can't blame weed for it. He wasn't roofied or blacked out, he knew what he is doing at least to some extent. Maybe the drug was the final push he needed to do what he desired. Sure, it's still assault but this doesn't absolve him entirely.
@@Resvain If an atractive guy put drugs in the drink of a girl in a bar and she didn't knew that, then because of the drug she feels dizzy and horny and the guy took her to his place and have sex, that's an abuse my friend. Even if she felt atracted to the guy before. It's exactly the same situation. They put some drugs so he could be docil and they took him to that place without him be able to decide. He didn't decide anything.
"is this what it's like to trip on shrooms"...well, no movie will ever be able to depict it, but this one gets the visuals fairly accurate, and yes if you have even an inkling of anxiety or fear about something even subconscious, it will become very very obvious to you on shrooms, you sort of get to hear your background thoughts that are normally suppressed
One detail I liked in this movie is how honest the cult members are about things. Pelle makes the kill gesture when Dani asks what happens when you're 72, the woman who gives Christian the drink tells him it's to lower his defenses, Pelle early on tells Dani that his community does everything together...it's all true. It's just that these friends are all so focused on other things that it's not registering with them.
Yeah. All the answers are true, yet they sound so innocuous; mentally you can explain each of them away as nothing worth thinking about. "It's a love rune." "Yes, you did eat her pubes."
Yeah...this movie is amazing. It falls into the category or "Folk Horror", like The Witch, The Wicker Man (the original), & The Light House amongst others. Really fun films that don't follow the typical tropes of horror, like jump scares and Bagul moments (to coin RLMs terminology).
@@paulchavez3039 - did you ever see the movie Sinister? The demon thing in that movie series was called Bagul. At the very end of the first film, it jumped in front of the camera with a really loud "boo" noise. It's a cheap version of a jump scare, at the very end of the movie. A perfect example would be baby Jason Vorhees popping out of the water at the end of Friday the 13th Part 1. The guys at Red Letter Media coined that kind of jump scare a "Bagul".
I liked it a lot. It was gripping, bizarre and surreal. The girl condemning her useless boyfriend to the flames was wicked and wild. Ultimately this was a masterpiece exposing some not so nice things about humanity. Unforgettable scenes like the two old people jumping off a cliff and the group watching and encouraging sex scene part are sure to scar many innocent souls.
There's a lot of aspects to this film that are original (or at least not heavily-trod ground), and two of my favorites are how it's horror in broad daylight, and how for once it's a naked guy running for his life instead of a naked woman haha. But yes the movie absolutely eviscerated me, and I fucking loved it. The writing, directing, and acting were all top-notch.
Weird as it is to say I was glad for your reaction at the end there. Back when it came out so many reactors and reviewers viewed the ending as though the main character had achieved some sort of agency or empowerment like they had been indoctrinated throughout regardless of the horrific things occurring on screen. It was really disturbing to see that happen 😅
It's kind of horrific that the cult's indoctrination methods almost seem to work through the fourth wall, like I'll admit that the first time I watched this, as horrifying as I found the ending, I kind of viewed it as a positive happy ending for Dani, and it wasn't until I spent several hours thinking about it that I realised that it most certainly wasn't
@@christianwise637 Ha! Yeah it might have been an advantage for me that I've been through the Diet Coke version of this in my childhood through an evangelical church program when I was younger called SEP. It's essentially a Christian camp my parents allowed me to go to with my religious friends. I was agnostic at the time but curious and it offered a wide variety of activities like hiking and canoing and outdoorsmanship which was right up my alley at that age. It wasn't till I got there that I was treated like lost lamb that finally made its way home like the protagonist here and constantly had their beliefs pushed on me in some weird and manipulative ways. I didn't like the scene or half the people there especially the adults and never went back. found out from my friend two years later that there was some inappropriate grooming between some of the adult tutors there and the kids would become tutors the next year because of their age, so ever since then I've always relied on the old gut feeling for things like this but at the time I was definitely on the fence and second guessing my distrust of the whole situation. It's a very effective movie in showing how vulnerability can weaponised against you within a group of ill intent for sure.
I’ve seen this movie 8 times and now I’m watching your reaction AND I even watched a 7 HOUR 😮documentary about every single detail of the movie 😂. Thanks for this ❤
I once watched this film out of curiosity and was traumatized for life. Welcome to the club, and I'm sorry dhfdf. I can totally feel you at the end of the video, because I felt unreal and dreary for hours after watching the film despite it being a sunny summer's day (well maybe that didn't help... I also live in Finland so). Also the story didn't leave my head for days. No other movie has ever done that to me, which goes to show it truly is some skillfully crafted horror. Every once in a while I feel tempted to go re-listen to the ending soundtrack 'cause it's so hypnotizing... But I won't because I know it'll also make me feel sick. Anyway, congratulations on being one of the sane people who came out of the film knowing that it wasn't a happy ending for Dani, and that Christian for all his faults was drugged and used as well. His fate will forever haunt me. Even some viewers get caught in the cult it seems.
Visually speaking, the tripping (shroom) scene is spot on accurate. I also think the movie has the most accurate representation of a good trip gone bad. It can switch that quickly if you are not in a good mental place before taking shrooms or lsd.
00:20 Didn't know VKunia was into grape stomping contests. Also, I'd imagine the reason two people can't do their thesis on the same subject is because, as I understand it, a graduate thesis is supposed to be a novel and unique investigation of new territory, something the academic community has not seen before. There is only so much academic glory to go around, so if two people did the same thing, it would be harder for either of them to shine as a bright new researcher and get the cred required to survive in the field.
* EDIT * Seeing Vicki "beam" about her outfit is one of the most adorable things I have ever seen a YT Reactor do. So happy about something so simple. Adorbz I like watching Vicki's reactions, I didn't see this movie. Thank Fuck. I've been thru actual traumas and have severe PTS, I can't watch stuff like this.
Ari Aster is very good at making movies that make you feel depressed and he wrote this while going through a breakup and you can tell . Also, It's heavily implied that Josh knew about the attestupa because the reason they're in Harga is for his thesis and if he told them, everyone (especially Dani) would wanna leave and he'd be screwed
"They are dead asleep !" Bless you for doing this ! Ti West movies are very similar slow burns - The Innkeepers, The Sacrament (based on the real world Jonestown massacre), X, Pearl (incredible) and MaXXXine (a trilogy).
I was raised in a cult, and this movie is a fascinating look at how cults are just like abusive relationships, and how they prey upon the emotional distress and loss of people
Midsommar is the PERFECT Date movie! If you ever wanna have a special evening, just make a Pitcher of Strawberry Lemonade, bake some meat pies and snuggle up in a bear skin blanket to watch the movie and when you are done leave a trail of flower petals to the bedroom. SOOOO Romantic!
I remember seeing this in the cinema. First of all, the one thing they absolutely got right in this movie, in my opinion, is the Swedish summer-weather. It's almost magical sometime, with sun that doesn't set until late in the night, and rises after just 3-4 hours. Warm weather, and if you're in the country, green and lush vegetation in bright green and sometimes yellow, everywhere. However, living in Ireland, when he started to talk about Ättestupan, I was the only one in the cinema laughing out loud. It's such an old joke in Sweden that we just push the old people over the cliff, it can't be anything else but funny. They make it a reality here though, but it was still such a funny moment, and no else in the audience getting it.
I agree about the weather but unfortunately they didn’t get the nature right at all since this was filmed in Hungary and not in Sweden. Being Swedish you can see right away this isn’t Sweden. Det tog mig ur filmen lite!
Actually you get pretty energetic on shrooms, at least mentally lol. The effects in this movie are by far the most realistic depiction I've seen of being on shrooms.
There are like 5-6 movies that I think really make the best reaction videos overall, and this is one of them. So glad to see another great reactor tackle this one! I think that 'coming up' intro was the perfect summary of reacting to this movie, lol!
Aster said the core concept of the story is about a breakup and after a breakup, I totally get it. Dani and Christian shouldn’t be together, but momentum and fear of being alone sort of kept the somewhat shitty relationship going until it conclusively ended and Dani was able to purge herself of her need of Christian once he cheated (ignoring the weird circumstances of that cheating of course) and open herself up to a new life with a new family that cares for her and is willing to share her emotional burdens in support of her
By Christian cheating, you mean to say he was drugged and raped, right? And also by opening herself up to a new family that cares about her you mean to say getting indoctrinated and kidnapped (they obviously wouldn't have let her leave) by a cult that murdered her friends and were the ones that drugged her boyfriend into """""""cheating""""""" in the first place, right?
Allow me to say that VKunia looks adorable in her arboreal/floral print top-l’ve always thought of her as a wholesome Polish-American TH-camr and l find her reaction quite appropriate.
I hadn't considered the fact that it was her first birthday without her family and now I am DEVASTATED. Also: Ari Aster is a genius and that is very accurately what it is like to be on shrooms.
This movie borrows alot from the Wickerman (1973), which is set in remote Scottish islands. The visuals are the star in Midsommar but Wickerman (1973) star is the music ❤
20:45 it's a PhD thesis, it must be original research that broadens academic knowledge. There is a world where they both write separate thesis on the same community at the same time, and they're different in scope and conclusion enough that they're fine, but if one is found to plagiarize the other (likely since Christian is lazy enough to even pull this move), either they share credit (which Josh would hate obviously) or at least one of them is getting expelled and barred from academia
i actually found a very culty group in a forrest in sweden, but luckily this was AFTER i saw this movie and when they shared with me about the very rigorous schedule and weird ceremonies i canceled my trip
34:03 "You can't speak. You can't move" 34:18 "What did they do to him? Why are he in a wheelchair?" Well. There was a guy that blew a powder on him, like 30 seconds ago in movie time. Were you watching?
11:25 most drugs amplify what you have turning around inside. Anxious people may get some relief out of weed but ultimately they will experience a bad panic experience because they live with anxiety. On hallucinogens your ability to limit and filter sensations and stimulation is affected. So if you are struggling and seeing the world negatively already the drug will make that so much worse. Basically, do drugs like this when you are happy and thriving
Laughing while feeling fear or anxiety is entirely normal, though it is certainly a minority of people who display this behavior. It's a defense mechanism, but not a very good one - predators can hear laughter.
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As a swede I can tell you that all of this is of course completely true and exactly how we do it. Please come visit us, it’s lovely
I've seen a big drop in tourism since this movie came out. We welcome you all to come here as vict... Ehm... *visitors* next summer.
@@donkfail1We will chop...er cheer you up at the conclusion of the celebrations!
😂😂😂
Don't believe the Swedes, they are the worst, better visit Germany and buy our cars, danke.
Well you forgot to tell them that we do Midsummer every year, but only do the sacrifice thing every 90 years. I mean we are not brutes.
I'm Danish. It's a pretty good representation of our Swedish neighbours.
in the script they chopped Christians legs off before putting him in the bear and connie was drowned by being chained to a rock and thrown into the water. So the movie does show SOME mercy
Glad to know that the movie was more restrained and humane.
The director's cut still has a rock-water scene, just not Connie.
Midsommar is rather brilliant. It’s one of the most unsettling, uncomfortable films I’ve ever watched. The lush green scenery, bright sunshine, and beautiful artwork adorning almost everything adds to the sense of disorientation and dread.
Add in the incredibly realistic portrayals of anxiety/panic attacks, grief, and a toxic relationship, and it’s a gut punch.
It’s also weirdly, darkly funny. It’s got everything.
The shroom trips are pretty accurate too
Yeah the shrooms trips are rly well done with their subtlety and I also agree with the dark humor of it. It's actually hilarious if you're in the right mindset and a very realistic(ish) portrayal of how someone at their lowest can easily be coerced into a situation so horrible. Or even more interesting, how a pseudo-intellectualism attempt at understanding a group and being "respectful" can allow for gruesome advantages to be taken of them.
And a positive ending!
As a swede I can confirm this is how most swedes celebrate midsummer. 😉
Can confirm too. Only 36 weeks to go...
Glad midsommar i förskott!
I've heard the most unrealistic aspect to this film is summer in Sweden being so sunny haha. Is this true?
😂
@@johnnyrivas2619Yea pretty much. It’s a Swedish traditional joke that it always rains on Midsommar. This year was nice tho crazy enough!
@@johnnyrivas2619 It rains pretty much. But that combined with few hours of darkness in summer makes plants grow very lush and green, so the sunny days are appreciated more.
But we can have weeks of sunshine too. The weather is just unpredictable. We even have the saying "There is no bad weather, there is only bad clothing."
10:55 "Don't bring up family. Don't let her watch any of the Fast and Furious movies right now" LMFAO I nearly spit out my drink 🤣
'Oh they're just dead asleep!'
I nearly spit out my drink lol
poor V got pretty'd up for this movie only to experience raw dread 😭🙏💀
Fun fact: The old guy who jumps off the cliff is Björn Andrésen, in the 70's he was "the most beautiful boy", and he actually inspired all your favorite anime pretty boys
I just looked it up. That's cool as fuck.
The physical appearance of the character Griffith from Berserk was inspired by that actor.
Good to know.
I remember seeing bits of a weird documentary about him, but I didn't know that was him in the movie. Pretty cool!
thank you for this fun fact! I had noooo idea!
Yup you right the parents were indeed DEAD asleep lol
Lol I was thinking "Well one of those things are true"
Me: "Yeah that's definitely one way to put it"
Midsommar was one of those movies where I can admire its quality in acting and production, but it's one that I never want to see again. This movie did introduce me to Florence Pugh, who is an outstanding, beautiful actress.
I know what you mean.
I watched it multiple times already. 😅 It's a fantastic movie.
@@chanceneck8072Yeah there’s something wrong with you if you watch it multiple times
Very "Requiem for a Dream" in that manner.
Fighting With My Family is pretty good.
Midsommar happens every 90 years; but they celebrate it annually; which is how they have photos of so many May Queens and why theyre well rehearsed in their traditions
I'm really happy that you immediatly recognized that the guy was being abused. When the movie was new there was a discussion about it because a lot of people said that he was cheating.
Both are true. One isn't exclusive to the other. He's already a VERY shitty person LONG before he gets to Sweden.
I think it was something in between. Yes, he was drugged but he had control over his body and he seemed interested in that girl since the beginning. On some level he really wanted it to happen. But yes, his state of mind during actual sex definitely was altered.
@@Resvain Hhahaha no. You can be abused even for someone you love. Feeling atraction or love or whatever doesnt have anithing to do with cheating unless the person with those feelings decide to put those feelings in actions. He maybe was atracted to the girl but during the whole movie didn't try anything, he had to be drugged and conducted to that place.
@@francisco.hurtado hahahahaha yes. We don't even know what drugs was he on so it's hard to even properly understand or judge it. If you decide to have sex with someone after smoking weed it's still your decision, you can't blame weed for it. He wasn't roofied or blacked out, he knew what he is doing at least to some extent. Maybe the drug was the final push he needed to do what he desired. Sure, it's still assault but this doesn't absolve him entirely.
@@Resvain If an atractive guy put drugs in the drink of a girl in a bar and she didn't knew that, then because of the drug she feels dizzy and horny and the guy took her to his place and have sex, that's an abuse my friend. Even if she felt atracted to the guy before. It's exactly the same situation. They put some drugs so he could be docil and they took him to that place without him be able to decide. He didn't decide anything.
"is this what it's like to trip on shrooms"...well, no movie will ever be able to depict it, but this one gets the visuals fairly accurate, and yes if you have even an inkling of anxiety or fear about something even subconscious, it will become very very obvious to you on shrooms, you sort of get to hear your background thoughts that are normally suppressed
This is the one film that I swore to myself that I’d never rewatch and yet here I am, following my fave reactor down the rabbit hole.🥴
One detail I liked in this movie is how honest the cult members are about things. Pelle makes the kill gesture when Dani asks what happens when you're 72, the woman who gives Christian the drink tells him it's to lower his defenses, Pelle early on tells Dani that his community does everything together...it's all true. It's just that these friends are all so focused on other things that it's not registering with them.
Yeah. All the answers are true, yet they sound so innocuous; mentally you can explain each of them away as nothing worth thinking about. "It's a love rune." "Yes, you did eat her pubes."
Yeah...this movie is amazing. It falls into the category or "Folk Horror", like The Witch, The Wicker Man (the original), & The Light House amongst others. Really fun films that don't follow the typical tropes of horror, like jump scares and Bagul moments (to coin RLMs terminology).
What's a Bagul moment?
@@paulchavez3039 - did you ever see the movie Sinister? The demon thing in that movie series was called Bagul. At the very end of the first film, it jumped in front of the camera with a really loud "boo" noise. It's a cheap version of a jump scare, at the very end of the movie. A perfect example would be baby Jason Vorhees popping out of the water at the end of Friday the 13th Part 1. The guys at Red Letter Media coined that kind of jump scare a "Bagul".
I liked it a lot. It was gripping, bizarre and surreal. The girl condemning her useless boyfriend to the flames was wicked and wild. Ultimately this was a masterpiece exposing some not so nice things about humanity. Unforgettable scenes like the two old people jumping off a cliff and the group watching and encouraging sex scene part are sure to scar many innocent souls.
Innocent souls do not watch movies like this. There is no world where my mother would watch it. Not even for a million dollars.
"Oh oh it's him the guy with the eyebrows.." Me: this is going to be a classic VKunia... I was not disappointed 😊
Check out the Swedish movie: "Border" and, of course "Heredity". Also "Let the right one in", a Scandinavian vampire movie.
There's a lot of aspects to this film that are original (or at least not heavily-trod ground), and two of my favorites are how it's horror in broad daylight, and how for once it's a naked guy running for his life instead of a naked woman haha. But yes the movie absolutely eviscerated me, and I fucking loved it. The writing, directing, and acting were all top-notch.
OMFG that blouse is just perfect haha.
I've heard it's Christian's Actor who asked to shoot this scene naked.. to portray how fragile he was in this instant..
24:59 "I like that homewrecker's dress!" was just one of the many quotes from VKunia that had me rolling this reaction 🤣
Not enough good reactions to this movies THANK YOU FOR THIS
Anyone else just catch the guy greeting them telling Dani specifically "welcome home"😮
Weird as it is to say I was glad for your reaction at the end there. Back when it came out so many reactors and reviewers viewed the ending as though the main character had achieved some sort of agency or empowerment like they had been indoctrinated throughout regardless of the horrific things occurring on screen. It was really disturbing to see that happen 😅
It's kind of horrific that the cult's indoctrination methods almost seem to work through the fourth wall, like I'll admit that the first time I watched this, as horrifying as I found the ending, I kind of viewed it as a positive happy ending for Dani, and it wasn't until I spent several hours thinking about it that I realised that it most certainly wasn't
@@christianwise637 Ha! Yeah it might have been an advantage for me that I've been through the Diet Coke version of this in my childhood through an evangelical church program when I was younger called SEP. It's essentially a Christian camp my parents allowed me to go to with my religious friends. I was agnostic at the time but curious and it offered a wide variety of activities like hiking and canoing and outdoorsmanship which was right up my alley at that age.
It wasn't till I got there that I was treated like lost lamb that finally made its way home like the protagonist here and constantly had their beliefs pushed on me in some weird and manipulative ways.
I didn't like the scene or half the people there especially the adults and never went back. found out from my friend two years later that there was some inappropriate grooming between some of the adult tutors there and the kids would become tutors the next year because of their age, so ever since then I've always relied on the old gut feeling for things like this but at the time I was definitely on the fence and second guessing my distrust of the whole situation.
It's a very effective movie in showing how vulnerability can weaponised against you within a group of ill intent for sure.
This is such an uplifting story. She learned to set hard boundaries with Christian and found her village along the way. So empowering.
I think the reason i like reaction videos is because i feel like i'm watching a movie with someone else
I’ve seen this movie 8 times and now I’m watching your reaction AND I even watched a 7 HOUR 😮documentary about every single detail of the movie 😂. Thanks for this ❤
I LOVE Ari Aster's films, they're super messed up but also incredibly well made and anxiety-inducing
22:06 V sounds like that viral blooper of the news reporter crushing grapes who falls.
Oh I thought you were referring to 15:21 at first 😆 That was a great reaction. "Sis!"
It was my 3rd or 4th watch when I noticed the guy welcoming them early on said "welcome home" only to Dani....
I just caught that watching this reaction, haha
11:16 missed a pretty major spook 👻
Exactly! I was waiting to see a YIKES! reaction, but no. 😧
Today on 'lets traumatize Vicki'... 😅
Next up: A Serbian Film..... 🤭
"Simon's gone... and now we're making meat tarts."
If that doesn't clue you in you deserve what's probably coming lol
25:06
32:13
Diddy party❌
Swedish party✅
When you're stroke game is so weak that granny has to jump in and lay it down for you. 🤣😂
- We think of life like 4 seasons. 0-18 spring, 18-36 summer, 36-54 fall, 54-72 winter.
- Soooooo... what happens after 72?
- Off season!😅
Winter: The Sequel!
THANK YOU for watching one of my favorite movies!, my first thoughts after watching this for the first time was "who the hell thought this up!" LOL!!!
I once watched this film out of curiosity and was traumatized for life. Welcome to the club, and I'm sorry dhfdf. I can totally feel you at the end of the video, because I felt unreal and dreary for hours after watching the film despite it being a sunny summer's day (well maybe that didn't help... I also live in Finland so). Also the story didn't leave my head for days. No other movie has ever done that to me, which goes to show it truly is some skillfully crafted horror. Every once in a while I feel tempted to go re-listen to the ending soundtrack 'cause it's so hypnotizing... But I won't because I know it'll also make me feel sick. Anyway, congratulations on being one of the sane people who came out of the film knowing that it wasn't a happy ending for Dani, and that Christian for all his faults was drugged and used as well. His fate will forever haunt me. Even some viewers get caught in the cult it seems.
Annihilation is another good movie that has a long slow burn dread-building plot with some sci-fi thrown in
Visually speaking, the tripping (shroom) scene is spot on accurate. I also think the movie has the most accurate representation of a good trip gone bad. It can switch that quickly if you are not in a good mental place before taking shrooms or lsd.
It’s nice to see someone react to this film and understand that it’s a horror film and not an empowering fantasy.
Greetings from Sweden. Great reaction, we would love to have you over some time!
Good movie. I don't like any of the characters, but I do enjoy the funky cult shenanigans and the cinematography.
same
15:21 knowing what you saw "sis nooo " hahaha!
00:20 Didn't know VKunia was into grape stomping contests.
Also, I'd imagine the reason two people can't do their thesis on the same subject is because, as I understand it, a graduate thesis is supposed to be a novel and unique investigation of new territory, something the academic community has not seen before. There is only so much academic glory to go around, so if two people did the same thing, it would be harder for either of them to shine as a bright new researcher and get the cred required to survive in the field.
I understood the grape reference ✊🏽😭
* EDIT * Seeing Vicki "beam" about her outfit is one of the most adorable things I have ever seen a YT Reactor do. So happy about something so simple. Adorbz
I like watching Vicki's reactions, I didn't see this movie. Thank Fuck. I've been thru actual traumas and have severe PTS, I can't watch stuff like this.
33:53 btw, what they did to him with his lungs is called the “Blood Eagle”. It’s a Midvale type of torture that was quite gruesome.
watching this movie made feel a mix of shock and calm
Ari Aster is very good at making movies that make you feel depressed and he wrote this while going through a breakup and you can tell .
Also, It's heavily implied that Josh knew about the attestupa because the reason they're in Harga is for his thesis and if he told them, everyone (especially Dani) would wanna leave and he'd be screwed
this movie has the most accurate shroom trip depiction i've ever seen in a movie, and no you dont get sleepy on shrooms.
Now you gotta watch Hereditary!
"They are dead asleep !"
Bless you for doing this !
Ti West movies are very similar slow burns - The Innkeepers, The Sacrament (based on the real world Jonestown massacre), X, Pearl (incredible) and MaXXXine (a trilogy).
She also needs to see irreversible and a Serbian film
@@mq7447 No one needs to see them. They are not even decent films outside from their tone. Martyrs (French) is the best of the hard horror genre.
@@o0pinkdino0o ok what about come and see? That's a good film. And I think she should if midsummer "traumatized" her that much.
@@mq7447 edgelord shockvalue stuff.. the mere fact you say that unironically tells me so much about your character..
I was raised in a cult, and this movie is a fascinating look at how cults are just like abusive relationships, and how they prey upon the emotional distress and loss of people
Midsommar is the PERFECT Date movie! If you ever wanna have a special evening, just make a Pitcher of Strawberry Lemonade, bake some meat pies and snuggle up in a bear skin blanket to watch the movie and when you are done leave a trail of flower petals to the bedroom. SOOOO Romantic!
0:21 the grape stomping lady classic youtoob
I remember seeing this in the cinema.
First of all, the one thing they absolutely got right in this movie, in my opinion, is the Swedish summer-weather. It's almost magical sometime, with sun that doesn't set until late in the night, and rises after just 3-4 hours. Warm weather, and if you're in the country, green and lush vegetation in bright green and sometimes yellow, everywhere.
However, living in Ireland, when he started to talk about Ättestupan, I was the only one in the cinema laughing out loud. It's such an old joke in Sweden that we just push the old people over the cliff, it can't be anything else but funny. They make it a reality here though, but it was still such a funny moment, and no else in the audience getting it.
I agree about the weather but unfortunately they didn’t get the nature right at all since this was filmed in Hungary and not in Sweden. Being Swedish you can see right away this isn’t Sweden. Det tog mig ur filmen lite!
Actually you get pretty energetic on shrooms, at least mentally lol. The effects in this movie are by far the most realistic depiction I've seen of being on shrooms.
Viki is adorable every reaction
This movie falls under the category of "recreational trauma".
Perfect for date night!
Very disturbing movie but it’s so creative!
this film portrays the effects of psychedelic drugs on the most realistic possible way
"does it feel uncomfortable when it flop" good question vkunia 😅
There are like 5-6 movies that I think really make the best reaction videos overall, and this is one of them. So glad to see another great reactor tackle this one! I think that 'coming up' intro was the perfect summary of reacting to this movie, lol!
I'm Swedish and I was shocked how people are so grossed out how we choose to celebrate midsummer here.
Vicky:
"This looks like a pretty cool movie!"
(3 hrs latah)😳💥😵
The shroom visuals are pretty accurate
It’s my birthday month too. 31 birthdays in a row really takes a toll, huh?
Take a year off, you deserve it!
The most unrealistic thing about the movie is the lack of rain during midsommar.
11:16 it is when you’ve gone through heavy trauma and you take them a few days later.
The visuals for the shrooms trips in this are pretty much spot on, lots of movies overdo and exaggerate hallucinogens but they nailed it
Yeah so much so I actually had to pause the movie and collect myself. It felt like I was tripping on shrooms again.
Ari Aster is the legend - don't forget to check his another gem "Hereditary"
34:51
The Harga only "celebrate" Midsommar with sacrifices every 90 years, not every year. That's why they don't run out of people that quickly.
At Uppsala they did it every 9th years.
Aster said the core concept of the story is about a breakup and after a breakup, I totally get it. Dani and Christian shouldn’t be together, but momentum and fear of being alone sort of kept the somewhat shitty relationship going until it conclusively ended and Dani was able to purge herself of her need of Christian once he cheated (ignoring the weird circumstances of that cheating of course) and open herself up to a new life with a new family that cares for her and is willing to share her emotional burdens in support of her
By Christian cheating, you mean to say he was drugged and raped, right? And also by opening herself up to a new family that cares about her you mean to say getting indoctrinated and kidnapped (they obviously wouldn't have let her leave) by a cult that murdered her friends and were the ones that drugged her boyfriend into """""""cheating""""""" in the first place, right?
As a Hälsing (person from Hälsingland/Sweden), I want to tell that this is more of a documentary than a horror movie! 😉
EPIC reaction!! Thank you, Vee! You're welcome to Sweden anytime!
"I'm literally on brand! Perfect!"
Oh, you're not gonna wanna be....
Lot of Marvel actors in this. Yelena, Adam Warlock, and the mindreader guy from Quantumania.
"he has kind eyes" 😂😂😂
I had an exchange on Twitter with somebody who was wondering why she let them do what they did to Christian. I'm like, you saw the movie, right?
25:03 I’ve got a gut feeling Simon is around here somewhere. After all, isn’t there a little Simon in all of us?
such a great family movie
Allow me to say that VKunia looks adorable in her arboreal/floral print top-l’ve always thought of her as a wholesome Polish-American TH-camr and l find her reaction quite appropriate.
I hadn't considered the fact that it was her first birthday without her family and now I am DEVASTATED.
Also: Ari Aster is a genius and that is very accurately what it is like to be on shrooms.
Damn...Aliens, Midsommar, The Thing - you are really putting out one hit after the other at the moment o0
This movie borrows alot from the Wickerman (1973), which is set in remote Scottish islands. The visuals are the star in Midsommar but Wickerman (1973) star is the music ❤
There are actually Swedish actors in the movie but the movie is filmed outside Budapest in Hungary.
20:45 it's a PhD thesis, it must be original research that broadens academic knowledge. There is a world where they both write separate thesis on the same community at the same time, and they're different in scope and conclusion enough that they're fine, but if one is found to plagiarize the other (likely since Christian is lazy enough to even pull this move), either they share credit (which Josh would hate obviously) or at least one of them is getting expelled and barred from academia
Thanks for the reaction.
No I must retreat to my innermost recesses, to reflect on my wickedness.
This movie was inspired by The Wicker Man from 1973
This movie was actually disturbing. From the director of Hereditary, another scary one you should watch.
"Oh so they're just knocked out, they're dead asleep" 😅
i actually found a very culty group in a forrest in sweden, but luckily this was AFTER i saw this movie and when they shared with me about the very rigorous schedule and weird ceremonies i canceled my trip
Maybe the darkest opening scene in horror history.
Oh god no! 😅 I'm so sorry but we love to see it
34:03 "You can't speak. You can't move"
34:18 "What did they do to him? Why are he in a wheelchair?"
Well. There was a guy that blew a powder on him, like 30 seconds ago in movie time. Were you watching?
In a case, before i forgot, Happy Birthday to you. It's my birthday month as well. Don't forget to react. Evil dead franchise. 🎉🎂🎁❤❤❤
This reminds me of 'The Ritual' (2017), another great flick for Halloween season, and definitely one you will not soon forget!
My fav horror movie its so underrated 🫎
11:25 most drugs amplify what you have turning around inside. Anxious people may get some relief out of weed but ultimately they will experience a bad panic experience because they live with anxiety. On hallucinogens your ability to limit and filter sensations and stimulation is affected. So if you are struggling and seeing the world negatively already the drug will make that so much worse. Basically, do drugs like this when you are happy and thriving
Laughing while feeling fear or anxiety is entirely normal, though it is certainly a minority of people who display this behavior.
It's a defense mechanism, but not a very good one - predators can hear laughter.
Thank you. I do this, can't help it. 😐