poor,poor writing

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2020)

This is not really a horror film with jump scares and shadows and hidden figures, it's a psychological study of a person named Dani (Florence Pugh) who is enormously traumatazied, grieving her loss and is willing to seek refuge to anything possible. Such circumstances occur when Dani travels to Sweden with her emotionally distant boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) and his buddies to engage in a festival called "Midsommar". What she will find there is a cult who's members are living as a big, wholesome family with great love and care towards eachother.
Now it appears that director Ari Aster is unable to reach this climax. Dani can never accept the cult's extreme views on life, death and sacrifice. Instead of exploring the cult's beliefs and delving deep into it's core doctrines, what we get here is use of LSD, mushrooms and other hallocinative drugs everytime a charcater needs convincing about something.
Another method that Aster uses to get to his climax is to make Dani's boyfriend and his friends as unlikable, selfish and arrogant as ever possible. These people were competetively nauseating to the point that one couldn't care about their ultimate survival.
I think Midsommar suffers greatly from writing. The film runs for 147 minutes but awkwardly no considerable character and plot development happens. What happens in my opinion is a series of forced and manipulated events that lead to the writer-director's desired ending.