Midsommar

The first time I watched this, I sat in my friends bathroom for almost an hour processing what I had just taken in. A film that is now comforting to me with its gorgeous scenery, made me feel viscerally ill upon first view. And as someone who celebrates Midsummer each year, the idea of basing horror around it is fascinating to me. In open daylight, Midsommar conceals the drawn out feeling of pure dread under false and uninviting warmth, encapsulating the terror of suffocating in unhealed trauma along the way. A film that lures you in, indoctrinating you - there is something so malevolent in the communal facade used to prey on not only Dani, but the audience as a whole. This film says so much about suffering and vulnerability in restrictive environments. If this film taught me one thing, it’s that I would probably fall for a cult lol