filmgifs:I’ve always seen Midsommar as a fairy tale. Orphaning your main character is the oldest fai
filmgifs:I’ve always seen Midsommar as a fairy tale. Orphaning your main character is the oldest fairy tale move in the book, and that was important for where the film goes. I think the fun of the film is that it is a contribution to the ‘folk horror’ subgenre. So it goes exactly where you’re expecting, but the surprise is in how it feels to get there. It’s like [Christian, Josh and Mark] are in a folk horror movie, but Dani, it turns out, is not. She’s in something else, and she’s our conduit. She’s the person that we’re attached to, so it’s her movie, not theirs.For me, [the Hårga] are a community, and they are a family. I wanted them to exist as a place with a history and very clear laws and rules and traditions. I wanted all that to feel very rich, and very lived in. At the same time, this is a fairy tale, and they really are exactly what Dani needs. For better or worse, this is a wish-fulfilment fantasy. We begin as Dani loses a family, and we end as Dani gains one. And so, for better or worse, they are there to provide exactly what she is lacking, and exactly what she needs, in true fairy tale fashion. — Ari Aster on Midsommar -- source link
#midsommar#movie