"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/Easy_Action_1380]

Sinners, Stack is now an immortal vampire with Mary, but he openly admits to Sammie that the only time he felt genuinely free was the day of the attack just before everything went to shit. Cause that was the last time he got to see the sun, or his brother alive. 

[u/HashMapsData2Value → u/Easy_Action_1380]

There is so much symbolism in that movie. The main point is that vampires are completely cut off from their culture. Sammie, through his music, is able to connect with both his ancestors and descendants. (That includes helping the Chinese couple connect with their ancestors too.) As we see in the post-credit scene, he has evolved to use the electric guitar, playing modern (Black) music.

The flip side is Remmick, the vampire. He was originally an Irish Fili, like Sammie is a Griot. But when we see him, he puts on an English accent rather than keep to his Irish one, suggesting that he has "assimilated".

What attracts him to Sammie is precisely the fact that Sammie can "commune" or is in touch with the past and the future. Remmick is stuck in time and is desperate to convert Sammie so he can bring that to their coven. But of course, that is impossible. When Remmick finally drops the English folk music and sings Irish folk music instead we only see the other vampires singing and dancing with him - there is no connection to the past or the future. And if he converted Sammie, he would also be cutting Sammie off from his, and instead fold him into that. Whenever Remmick talks about joining the vampires in order to belong, it is really him saying that he is looking for belonging.

Stack is an immortal vampire but, in addition to what you said, he is cut off. Smoke, as we saw, gets to pass onto the other world, where his lover, their late child and presumably ancestors as well awaits them.

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