day abyss

Clay 2022-03-19 09:01:04

The last creepy movie-watching experience

The first season of "Black Mirror"

There is a kind of film, not a horror film, but more than a horror film

Let you be cold to the bone from start to finish

horror is

it's like an abyss

staring at you

As if seeing through your hypocrisy, desire and vulnerability

Waiting for the opportunity to swallow you at any time

...

This film has a variety of progressive interpretation levels

first floor, curious

This self-help community in the Nordic Swedish countryside

The members love each other and are self-sufficient

They eat and live together, they have no privacy from each other

have their own beliefs and religions

Self-contained logic and system for the operation of an organization

At first glance, very interesting

~~

second layer, collision

The story goes to the cliff ceremony

A man and a woman jump off a cliff

The woman died on the spot, beyond recognition

The man did not die, but was slapped with a hammer by four members

one~

Two~

three~

four~

Smashed to death

It's a ritual in the mutual aid community

72-year-olds kill themselves this way

On the other hand, new babies in the community will inherit their names

Means the continuation of life

The film is straightforward and cruel to the cliff ceremony

The old female fell down beyond recognition, blood and brain spattered

The male old man failed to fall to his death immediately, and one of his legs was broken and scattered on one side of his body

He was smashed to death by hammer after hammer, and his face shriveled a little every time he was smashed.

After four times, the same unrecognizable

In the face of all this, outsiders have mixed reactions

some severe discomfort

Some fought Xiao Jiujiu out of self-interest

The heroine was about to collapse because of the painful memories.

The fates of the outsiders begin to come to different ends

~~

Tier 3: Assimilation

In what form does a strong collective consciousness manifest itself?

sense of ceremony and

empathy

in this mutual aid community

eat~

sleep~

daily life

it's all ceremonies

Even the sex scene of a man and a woman

It must also be ritualized and dramatic.

no privacy, no secrets

only collective

behavior of all individuals

for the collective operation

individuals are given meaning

At the same time, it was also deprived of

right

right to choose

The heroine's empty and helpless heart is filled with this powerful collectivism

Step by step towards the road of participation, recognition and integration

And others, including the male lead

or because they cannot agree

or for breaking taboos

One by one became the funeral objects of religious ceremonies

extreme environment

In totalitarian yishi form

often induced

We are all the same, we must have the same state of mind

Many flaws in human nature

also in such an environment

activated, triggered, amplified, exploited

culminates in horrific deeds

...

final ending

Fake orgasm in madness

flirted

I am afraid it is the most terrible thing in the deepest part of our human nature.

eager

no different

...

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Extended Reading
  • Ulices 2022-03-20 09:01:33

    Fake talent + pure evil.

  • Fabian 2022-03-22 09:01:34

    A dumber symbol garbage dump than its predecessor, sort of a contemporary art show. The reason why the director especially likes to shoot the scenes of the model house and the themes of cults is because he cannot deal with the characters with autonomous action, he can only put everyone in a given position like playing with dolls, and push all the inexplicable power to cult. Then the so-called mysterious symbols are sprinkled like perfume. The reason why these kinds of films are not scary at all is probably because the characters are already dead.

Midsommar quotes

  • [last lines]

    Mats: [In Swedish; to Ulf as he administers liquid via cotton swab onto his tongue] Take from the yew tree. Feel no pain.

    Mats: [In Swedish; to Ingemar, same procedure] Take from the yew tree. Feel no fear.

  • Irma: [announcing to the river, in Swedish] In thanks and praise, Great Goddess, we bestow upon you this modest gift.

    [Music is played as the men hoist up the lavish tree, run it towards the river, and hurl it into the water. The river gulps the tree down. A horn bellows]

    Sven: [theatrically, in Swedish] Oh no! Did you hear that rumbling? I think she is still hungry.

    Irma: [in Swedish] I heard no rumbling. Did any of you?

    [Grumblings all around. The consensus is "no."]

    Sven: [in Swedish] Ah, well, I suppose it could have been my own belly. But I do not wish to risk offending our generous Mother.

    Irma: [in Swedish] Nor do I. Yet we have already given our finest jewels and most fruitful tree. What else could we possibly offer?

    Bror: [in Swedish] You can use me!

    [the crowd opens up to reveal the young boy. He is adorned in the same jewels and flowers as the tree. His costume is an imitation of the tree's. He is clearly reciting lines]

    Irma: [in Swedish] You, young Bror, wish to offer your life to our beloved Goddess?

    Bror: [in Swedish] If she will have it.

    Sven: [in Swedish] How brave you are, little Bror!

    Bror: [in Swedish] Brave? What is brave in going home?