Absolute TERRIFYING MASTERPIECE

Rating: 10/10 (27 September 2019)

SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT READ THIS BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MOVIE.
I understand why most people do not like this movie, they expect a cheap scare from a maimed zombie leaping at one of the protagonists et simile... boring and seen a million times.
This movie is exceptionally disturbing, terrifying and horrifying in a way that does not leave you alone even after a long time you watched it, and not in the way that body horror does. The implication that all those people live their entire existence on a completely different set of values: life, death, deity, godlessness, fertility, relationships, and all the values we are brought up with are meaningless and even sinful.
I have never seen such a depiction of a complete and utterly different human society which lives on a completely different level very distant from what is accepted as "right" and "wrong" in western society. It is perspective altering, it is a profound reflection on our own society and set of values, a challenge to our intellect about what is actually benign and malign in our society.
I think for the reasons above alone this script is an utter masterpiece, on top of that the visuals of the movie and the acting are absolutely flawless in delivering an absolute terrifying feeling of uneasiness, a crawling sensation that pushes your reason and sanity to dangerous levels instability .
One example are the pauses, the movie gives the audience time to ponder, to think about what just happened, to take it all in, to LIVE the moment in all its psychologically disturbed glory. As said, it stays with you, it changes you, it makes you WANT to go back there in those fields to feel like that once more, to feel the freedom of reason. To feel the "normality" and "simplicity" of easing the pain of your suicidal elders with a gigantic hammer.
The ending offers the same beautiful mind violence of the rest of the movie... in a single instant: the temple is ablaze and Dani watches it crashing down, beyond the trauma, beyond madness, beyond any shred of sanity, she finally embraces what has happened to her and joins in with her new family... her smile and crazed eyes are probably the most haunting image of the entire movie, this was exceptionally acted by Florence Pugh, the crowning of an incredible performance in this movie.
I feel still disturbed and amazed by watching this, I think I will never be able to watch it again, I am afraid I might see even deeper and delve even more into the madness and world altering views of the authors, and this would not be good for my own sanity.
I would recommend anyone who wants to challenge their mind to watch this with an extremely open mind and dig deep into every detail and nuance of this utterly dangerous and shocking experience, this is what art should be, something that enriches one's life.