Beautiful film and spoilers/thought/questions

Rating: 9/10 (22 July 2019)

I found this to be such a beautifully shot film. Aster really has his own unique style and, if you've seen Heredity, a great insight into people's feelings of doubt, remorse, pain and acceptance. Not a scary film, just creepy. The shot in the car and plane really makes you feel off kilter and on your toes. He certainly has a style with his "gut punch" moments.

Spoilers and questions
When the elders jump off the cliff, Dani finds Christian with the woman, and of course during the sex scene itself and the villager who sacrificed himself, the rest of the villagers in the immediate vicinity react to the pain, anguish, delight. Are they actually feeling this, in some sort of supernatural bonding thing with those that are close to them or are they mearly acting as a form of spiritual or mental bonding with the person? I feel as if they do actually feel it, and somehow that helps the victim.
I do feel that the visitors were never to be part of the sacrifices. But that it happened due to rules being broken. Pissing on the ancestors, freaking out over the elders death, possibly telling others and photographing the sacred book. Had none of that happened, I do think those people would have lived.