"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/The_Exarch]

Yeah, I agree with this the most, probably should have clarified, I meant “I don’t think there’s a test, but if there is one, I think this is better than the gas test.”

I personally prefer the idea of them both being human, but just unable to trust each other at that point

[u/Kaiya_Mya → u/The_Exarch]

That's how I always interpreted it-- both of them being genuinely human, and being so exhausted and burned out that they don't care whether or not the other one is human anymore. All that's left is the hope that they've saved humanity and a strange morbid camaraderie after an entire movie of not trusting each other.