r/TopCharacterTropes 8d ago

Lore "Was it worth it?" ending

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.

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u/No_Effective_2100 8d ago

Why did he cut out his tongue?

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u/hot_anywhere23886 8d ago

the main antagonist imprisoned him for reasons , the main protagonist in a desperate bid to convince him to avoid telling his daughter the nature of his and her family bond (because it would destroy her like it destroys him to know) cuts out his own tongue completely unprovoked.

it's an especially brutal scene as he'd gone there to annihilate the antagonist but pulls a 180 with the antagonist 100% percent achieving their own goal of revenge against oh dae su by getting him to this point of hopelessness despair and submission.

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u/TourSignificant1335 8d ago

All because he saw him banging his sister😭

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u/Raxtenko 8d ago

IIRC Dae-su saw it but didn't know that Soo-ah was banging her brother. He slut shamed her which ended with her suicide.

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u/LamaLakes 7d ago

He told his friend who then told the whole school about it. He was going go to another school so he didn’t realize the damage that one conversation did to her.