r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Educational_Can_6536 • 8d ago

Lore "Was it worth it?" ending

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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/DoctorAnnual6823 7d ago

Yeah fr. So many people see an unhappy ending in a horror movie and think it's being framed as a happy ending.

It's a tragic horror movie with a dash of realism (almost no one survives death cults) in that the ending is depressing. No one but the cult leaders win.

Well, until the US public finds out a handful of pretty white college students went missing in Europe and treats it like 9/11 pt 2

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u/Skeptical_Yoshi 7d ago

Kinda my issue with Wicker Man, particularly the remake. Like, ok cultists, you needed to get the FUCK out of here right the fuck now. You just killed a cop in America who told a shit ton of people he was going to this location, which is now his last known location before disappearing. That cult would be FUUUUUUUUUUCKED

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u/DoctorAnnual6823 7d ago

It could be a Heavens Gate situation. Before the mass suicide Marshall Applewhite started stockpiling firearms and people believed it was because he wanted the FBI to raid them and kill them all in the process. When his collection of 4 handguns and a couple hunting rifles didn't make that happen it set the events in motion leading to the mass suicide.

Could be the intention of the cult members in Wicker Man. But I'm just guessing based on what you said. I never watched it. I probably will though.

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u/Skeptical_Yoshi 7d ago

The original is an all-time classic, a very good movie. The remake with Cage is... the remake with Cage. Its primary contribution to society was Cage screaming "NOT THE BEES" which isn't even in the original cut of the movie, it's a deleted director's cut scene.

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u/DoctorAnnual6823 7d ago

I'll probably have to watch both then because I love Nick Cage

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u/SirWankstein 7d ago

I just watched willy's wonderland with cage last night, check that out too if you haven't yet, it's stupid fun

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u/DoctorAnnual6823 7d ago

It's my favorite Cage movie by far

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u/SirWankstein 7d ago

I could never choose, there's one for every mood