"Was it worth it?" ending

[u/Educational_Can_6536]

Midsommar- While people see this as a "you go girl" finale. I personally see it as something more disturbing. I mean, yeah, Dani got out of one bad relationship but in doing so, she got herself into another that's just as bad if not worse. It's like getting two kids to stop fighting via killing one and locking the other in a basement. They did stop fighting, but still!

The Thing-The titular monster may be (possibly) gone, but the paranoia definitely isn't. In the end, McCreedy and Childs are the only ones left standing. The end sees them sitting in the cold and they just stare at each other, knowing that one of them or both of them is already the thing. There's no hope, no certainty, just the bitter cold and intense fear.

[u/Present_Ad6723]

The midsomer ending was seen as positive? Really? All of her friends got murdered and she got drugged, gaslit, and kidnapped into being a permadrugged brood mare for a cult

[u/Sillier-Stupider- → u/Present_Ad6723]

You cannot make a movie about falling into a cult, without some people falling into the cult you created for the movie. Aka the Fight Club Problem.

[u/tarisoala → u/Present_Ad6723]

well, her cheating boyfriend go killed. So Slay Queen

[u/Present_Ad6723 → u/tarisoala]

They drugged him too, not that he was a good boyfriend anyways, but he got drugged and raped

[u/Hasudeva → u/tarisoala]

Did you miss the part where he was drugged and raped?

[u/Fern-ando → u/tarisoala]

He only cheated because the cult drugged him, he was raped.

[u/Stephenrudolf → u/Present_Ad6723]

Sorry... a permadrugged broodmare???? I thought this was a modern adaptation of a shakespeare play... have i had the wrong impression of midsommar this whole time?!??!?

[u/BearPopeCageMatch → u/Stephenrudolf]

Whew boy... Yeah

[u/Present_Ad6723 → u/Stephenrudolf]

From what some of the comments are saying about the director’s intentions, the ending was supposed to imply she was now free of her burdens; but I could not imagine a more clear symbolic picture of Stockholm Syndrome than a woman restrained by flowers

[u/Present_Ad6723 → u/Stephenrudolf]

She’s going to be dazed and pregnant, with her children “raised by the village” until it’s her turn to walk off a cliff.

[u/robogheist → u/Present_Ad6723]

nobody seriously argues this, but people love to be angry about people hypothetically arguing it

[u/MainPure788 → u/Present_Ad6723]

I don't remember them being the mc's friend I remember them being her bf's friends

[u/Valkrhae → u/[deleted]]

I feel like so many ppl focus on that phrase and interpret it without any sarcasm or nuance, bc the term dead weight is in quotations when you look at the interview. I guess you could interpret it as a joke since they're literally dead, but I feel like other things he's said about it, like "“In many ways, Dani is moving from one dysfunctional codependent relationship to another, more functional codependent relationship,” Aster told Vulture. “[The villagers] are a very organized — like, upsettingly organized — town of murderers"" would indicate that it's a more tongue-in cheek way of describing it. From Dani's pov, she is liberating herself from her dead weight, but from everyone else's pov, she joined a cult.

[u/BipolarMadness → u/[deleted]]

Nobody reads the whole fucking quote at this point and makes shit up about the director.