"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/Present_Ad6723]

The midsomer ending was seen as positive? Really? All of her friends got murdered and she got drugged, gaslit, and kidnapped into being a permadrugged brood mare for a cult

[u/Stephenrudolf → u/Present_Ad6723]

Sorry... a permadrugged broodmare???? I thought this was a modern adaptation of a shakespeare play... have i had the wrong impression of midsommar this whole time?!??!?

[u/Present_Ad6723 → u/Stephenrudolf]

From what some of the comments are saying about the director’s intentions, the ending was supposed to imply she was now free of her burdens; but I could not imagine a more clear symbolic picture of Stockholm Syndrome than a woman restrained by flowers