Give me a few million - I couldn't possibly make a movie worse than this...

Rating: 1/10 (10 May 2020)

I've spent at least 30 years watching great art films that are out of the box in every way imaginable.
Here is the first thing - if you're going to take people on a ride of intense experiences, the ride has to GO SOMEWHERE. This movie has you wondering where things are going to go, and then - surprise - it goes nowhere and the director absconds with your money and 2.3h of your time.
Nothing in the film's plot makes sense. A lot seems to be invested in the main character's family murder/suicide. Then the film basically asks you to put it behind you and only reprises it with a cheap walk-by of her mother near the end.
Nobody who loves this movie appears bothered by:
-Why a Swedish person living in America would invite his circle of friends to be murdered by his cult family in the first place. Nothing is explained about what he gets out of having done this.
-Swedish dude starts working toward a relationship with the main character, and then that thread gets dropped like a hot potato.
-The idea that the host who has lived in America just seems to be unable to predict that seeing people jump to their gory death and get smashed in the head with a hammer might disturb his guests.
-Everyone except two of the guests finds their way to get cool with the public suicide.
-All this ritual, in aid of successful and prosperous farming, might have been paired with some EXAMPLES of prosperous farming?
What do we get by the end? A thoroughly uninteresting lead character who has a completely implausible breakdown-epiphany upon her boyfriend being burned to death in a bear suit and finds a way to smile. Seriously.
What is so annoying is that even I could have fixed this movie. All you had to do was wow them in the end. After the ridiculous fire ritual, just throw some special effects scene in where something truly alien happens, showing that all these bizarre practices are actually grounded in something actually convincingly celestial. These people aren't crazy after all, they really have the direct line to some sort of divinity. Boom - better movie. Main character still has her epiphany, but it's because she sees some form of god-like intervention.
As it stands, the apparent love for this movie only provides another example of the increasing failure of the state of art cinema.