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i'm rewatching midsommar and the point where dany apologises to chris for HIS deciding to go to sweden without telling her, i remember in the cinema di went oh my GOD
i played fallout shelter in another window so i wouldn't have to see the beginning. once was enough thank you
i disagree with ari aster. i know he made the movie or whatever and he thinks it's about breakups but nah. it's about grief
dany's family dies in such a tidy way there's almost nothing to clean up. she only cries in the toilet i.e. the place we go to do things society doesn't let us do in public. her grieving is a shameful thing
in the village everyone comes together to experience the end of a life. it's bloody and public, the americans are terrified. except dany
can i also say chris failing to light the candle on her birthday cake and dany pretending to blow it out anyway was like. yep. the things we do
the whole village is howling and grieving together and dany is just standing there transfixed. her sister's suicide and the attestup are technically the same thing, self-killings, but they're so utterly different
the old people remove themselves for the good of the community. dany's sister killed herself and their parents because she had no one to turn to and no way out. terrible isolation leading to a terrible tidy death
the old people live and die in a community cycle. dany's family die and the only person she has left basically demands that she forget about them. get over it. put it behind you and be fun again, like nothing ever happened
afterwards, dany breaks down and cries in the grass. it's like seeing that death helped her realise that her family's death was real and that her grief was real and loud and needed expression
in our society you're meant to ignore death and grief. it's all about getting productive again and not disturbing the people around you. if you don't get back to normal capitalism fast enough you'll think you've failed at having feelings
pelle sees dany looking upset and sits with her and talks to her gently and compassionately. when christian is with her the night her family dies he's just holding her until she stops making noise
pelle tries to tell her he knows how she feels, dany keeps crying i don't want to talk about it, i don't want to talk about it but he just keeps telling her that his parents died. this thing can be talked about without breaking you
"do you feel held by him? does he feel like home to you?"
the old people aren't embalmed or painted or even given a sheet to cover their horrific injuries. they're burned on a pyre in front of everyone. also i'm taking a little break from the movie but i will be back
also, christian steals dissertation guy's dissertation just so he has an excuse to talk to the red headed gal. he is scum
death is a taboo subject in our culture. but love is the highest good imaginable, which is why we must never talk about death but always, always, try to make it work in romantic relationships because that means everything
we have so many rules and tropes and fucked up ideas about love and pelle cuts right through them with do you feel held? does he feel like home to you?
death can be simple. a person was here, now they're not, and it hurts. love can be simple too. a person either feels like home to you or they don't
just noticed, a lot of the time you don't see chris and dany's faces in the same shot. you'll see her face and his hand on her shoulder, then his face, and it's like this could be cut together by a kid with windows movie maker. are they even in the same room
okay this is the director's cut so there's a scene i think it was a good idea to cut from the movie. it's a ceremony offering a child sacrifice to the river goddess, but it's just too funny and ruins the mood
the kid is held by two guys like a sack of potatoes and has weights manacled to his feet, then someone puts a big rock on top of him and the guys are swinging him and i'm just laughing because this is looney tunes behaviour
they don't kill the kid btw part of the ritual is his mother shouting stop! he's proven his courage! and they put him down safely. anyway the next scene between chris and dany is so fucking familiar i can't summarise it properly here
they have an argument and oh boy if you think chris was gaslighting before. this guy is the jackie chan of suddenly turning the situation upside down. if anyone has a link to just this scene please post
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taking a break to play some video games. ON CHRISTMAS
