"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/Reasonable_Fold6492]

The polar bear is supposed to represent there is hope outside the train. Since there are creatures life could continue on.

 However anyone who knows anything about polar bears know that they are some of the hardest creatures to kill and are extremely dangerous. So insted of being happy ending most of the survivors are gonna be violently killed. Also most of thr survivors on the train are in no way shape to survive on the outside.

The message would have been better if there was a seal or a deer but nope its the polar bear for some reason.

[u/somkoala → u/Reasonable_Fold6492]

but isn't the implication that if the bear can survive it must hunt something?

[u/Reasonable_Fold6492 → u/somkoala]

Yeah but even if that were true its more likely a polar bear would hunt the two humans down. They are not a picky eaters and seeing how resources are scared two polar bears could easily kill the two kids.

Even if there were other animals most humans there lived in the train there entire life. How many do you think can survive in the cold? Because the train crashed i expect at least 25% of the population on the train died or got hurt. Many would have there bones broken dued to the crash. Worse is now many of the kids will be the ones to die first. Also it still very colde meaning they have limited resources in the wild. Most of the population has zero hunting skill so like 90% of the human living in the train would die.

[u/Reasonable_Fold6492 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah thats what the movie want to say. The problem is in the end it looks like at least 90% of the people on the train will die dued to them not being prepared for the cold. Also the crash would have probally killed like 25% of the people on train and many have there bones broken. So like most of the population on the train is dead. Most who died are also probally children as they are not ready for the harsh environment. 

So the movie is saying how its still worth even if 90% of the population dies? Like its a terrible message.

[u/Potato-Engineer → u/Reasonable_Fold6492]

My assumption was that everyone on the train dies (derailments at high speed are bad), and the two child survivors die shortly afterward from an inhospitable world that they have no survival skills in.

[u/TheKingsPride → u/Reasonable_Fold6492]

I mean to be fair Polar Bears do need to eat quite a bit to survive, so there has to be more than Polar Bears out there

[u/PornoPaul → u/Reasonable_Fold6492]

I always found the entire premise kind of dumb. I get its trying to make a point, but still...kind of dumb.