Midsommar and it's interesting inspiration

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2020)

Midsommar is a film that is hard to rate, there are some really great elements but also some very average moments. Florence pugh is amazing as Dani and most of the performances are really good. However Cristian played by Jack Reynor was not good, some of his line delivery was laughable. A storyline that I thought was really interesting was dropped very early on and that kind of disappointed about this, but I do really love the story that is told once the characters get to Sweden. The concept of this film is right down my alley so when the characters are introduced to the cult the film really picks up for me, I loved watching how the people of the cult live their day to day lives. Midsommar builds tension masterfully, there were multiple moments where I was gripping my seat waiting for a payoff, sadly I did not think the end of the film was good, the whole middle section is so great and I was waiting for something to happen during the third act and when it did I was not satisfied. The cinematography is something else every, single, shot is beautiful, infact technically this film is phenomenal, there was one transition that did take me out of the film for a moment but that's very minor. I found out something very interesting about this film today, so obviously it is inspired by The wicker man but a movie that you might not have seen called "Midsummer" directed by Carsten Myllerup in 2003. Midsommar has almost a similar plot to Midsummer, in both the lead characters sister dies and they go on holiday to Sweden and have a load of strange things happen. I'm not saying that Ari Aster stole this idea but I definitely think that Midsommar is heavily inspired by Midsummer. Overall Midsommar is inconsistent but definitely worth a watch.