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Although it has an elegant way of building suspense and one absolutely stunning opening scene, I think Midsommar fails for me in the execution of its sequences. The whole movie is slowly building up the dread of the pagan cult, but fails to deliver when it comes to showcasing the brutality toward the end, and after two hours of build up it's baffling how minute the payoff is. The performances are fantastic, though! And I love watching Swedish people scream.

Although arthouse horror movies really aren’t my thing for the most part, ‘Midsommar’ falls into a strange middle ground where I wasn’t bored but I wasn’t invested either. I feel no need to “finding the mean“ to read theories online, because I simply don’t care. The only saving grace is the visuals, which are breathtaking and wildly creative at times, but it’s not a trip I want to take again.
- Chris dos Santos

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_**Very poorly advertised as something it isn't; will be sure to frustrate and impress in equal measure**_

> _Methought I was enamoured of an ass._

- William Shakespeare; _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ (1595)

>_Sometimes at pagan shrines they vowed_

>_offerings to idols, swore oaths_

>_that the killer of souls might come to their aid_

>_and save the people. That was their way,_

>_their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts_

>_they remembered hell._

- Seamus Heaney; _Beowu...

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