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Midsommar (2019)

Film
DirectorAri Aster
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Form & technique
  • The communal grieving scene where Hårga women cry with Dani
Tropes
  • The Hårga's exclusively white, homogenous community
  • Dani's final, smiling reaction to the temple burning
  • Josh and Christian's anthropological research on the Hårga
  • The May Queen dress and overwhelming floral imagery → The Abject
  • The clash between the American visitors and the Hårga community
  • Christian's dismissal of Dani's trauma and grief
  • The ritualistic killing of the male American visitors

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