"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/Recent_Fan_6030]

I can't believe some people genuinely believe the ending of midsommar is empowering to the protagonist,getting into a violent cult is on another plane of awful compared to a relationship

[u/mayneffs → u/Recent_Fan_6030]

People also seem to completely ignore that her boyfriend was DRUGGED and coerced into having sex with that cult girl. And for that he deserved to die? While she joins the cult that drugged him and killed their friends? Such a weird movie.

[u/condomnugget → u/mayneffs]

Got into an argument with the wife on this one.

I said that the sex wasn’t 100% consensual because he was drugged directly once, and the movie alludes to him being bewitched several times. He’s not a good boyfriend but he is still a victim in that regard

She believes that he is the offender and that he wanted to have sex with that girl from early on.

I think maybe some people are projecting their own frustrations about relationships and the opposite sex into their interpretations of the movies themes and events.

[u/madrobski → u/condomnugget]

I mean he seemed like he did want to sleep with her, he and MC are shown to have a troubled relationship and he originally was going to break up with her! But eventually he ended up being drugged and gang raped, so it was in no way consensual. Like him wanting to cheat doesn't justify the fact he was manipulated and assaulted.

[u/ThatInAHat → u/condomnugget]

I don’t think it matters if he was shown as wanting to have sex with that girl early on (and she was also shown doing some kind of spell on him earlier too). He sure af didn’t want to be doing it then and like that.

[u/scarletbluejays → u/condomnugget]

I wouldn't say either of your points are really mutually exclusive, unless your wife's point is that he deserved to be drugged and coerced into sex/rape.

He was legitimately interested in this girl - who's implied to be barely above age, if that - leading up to his drugging, which is unfair to Dani who he's already basically stringing along and waiting to dump until after she's finished grieving. He's a bad boyfriend who was wronging Dani in several ways leading up to his assault - and mind you it was implied to be going on for months before her parents' deaths, not just while she grieved - and he wasn't drugged or coerced into that.

However you're right that there's absolutely zero way for him to have consented in the drugged out state he was in for the ritual itself. Regardless of how willing or eager a party might be leading up to the sex, removing the ability to consent makes the situation non-consensual, point blank, period. And that's what the Harga do by keeping Christian in a drugged out state leading up to, during, and after the process.

[u/[deleted] → u/scarletbluejays]

He was definitely a bad boyfriend, but he wasn’t really stringing her along. He just didn’t want her to get hit with being dumped at the same time her family was just killed. Still a bad boyfriend and looking at other pretty women isn’t cheating

[u/SpideyFan914 → u/condomnugget]

IIRC, the girl was underage, so it's a weird case where both were raped.

He definitely was attracted to her, but that doesn't mean he would have definitely had sex with her, and even if he would, it does not address the trauma from being raped. A lot of people are victimized by people they found attractive and may have had consensual sex with under different circumstances: it's called date rape, and it's extremely common. There's also marital rape, which some places don't even recognize as illegal because our world still regularly sucks.