Name: Midsommar Review - When Madness Becomes Sacred
Item: Midsommar
Author: @reviewzzz

A horror movie starring English actress Florence Bio as Danny Ardor, Jack Raynor, as well as William Jackson Harper and directed and written by Ari Aster. It is a Swedish American film that tells the story of a group of friends in the middle of the road where director Ari Aster turned the party into horror, brutality and turmoil. The film, which was shot in Bulgaria and the United States, received a lot of interest from horror fans and was a different kind of horror film from traditional films. That appeared recently. If you are a fan of horror movies, then you will inevitably enjoy the international movie that was released in 2019 and won the admiration of millions, despite some criticisms of it.

The story

The journey begins with our heroine, Danny Ardor, who went with her boyfriend Christian to Sweden with a group of American friends to attend a party in Sweden and to alleviate the suffering she recently suffered. After the heinous act that her sister did before she committed suicide, she became so insane that her parents were killed, and then she killed herself. As usual, a group of friends went after packing their things on a fun and beautiful trip to Sweden in order to attend a party there, but it seems that the winds are coming with what the ships do not desire, as strange events began to appear little by little. During the flight, things did not go well. In the midst of the wonderful atmosphere that was at the party, they did not know that hell was coming, and that this trip was nothing but a plot orchestrated for them there, they will discover that the trip is just a nightmare. None of them knew what was happening around them, as strange events began to happen little by little. So can it now be Hell and Heaven at the same time ?! The group begins the celebration by seeing the strangest thing in their lives, as the villagers have strange rituals of suicide by the elderly instead of suffering with disability. Friends wonder and begin to wonder, but they tell them that this process is voluntarily, to escape the suffering that happens to a person when he is old. Here, the friends begin to argue about those strange customs that are sacred to the people of the village, and the argument continues between them between supporters and opponents of the culture that urges that, and then the strangest events follow. That reveals to us the details of the life of the people of that village.

General impression

The film tells a purely social story about the strange customs and traditions that still teem in the most remote areas of the world. Some consider them sacred customs that cannot be abandoned, and the strangest of them is what we saw in the film about the suicide of elderly people for fear of disability. Despite these strange habits that have nothing to do with logic, we, as usual, always find human beings divided between supporters and opponents. As for the people of the village, there is no way for discussion or objection. Over time these customs become sacred to the utmost extent and cannot be changed either by logic or ideas. Where the film portrays us as the simplest expression of when madness becomes sacred, the matter is extremely dangerous and cruel for you, it may become for them something fun to the extreme. This may push them to write their holy book as a crazy adult suffering from mental and psychological problems. On the other hand, we find that there is beauty surrounding all these clouds. In the film, we find flowers of various colors and wonderful natural beauty.

In the end, we find a tragic scene of the heroine Danny Ardour, wearing a wonderful dress and hearing the news that a massacre has befallen her friends here, the irony of fate turns into a smile on Danny's face. After escaping from a massacre carried out by her sister, she finds herself facing another massacre, motivated by the sacred madness of the people of the village.