A couple of years late, but I agree with you 100%. Just because people belong to a different religion than you doesn’t make them evil or heathens. FYI: the Nick Cage remake plays a much crueler trick to get him on the island.
I love Midsommar and I get so annoyed when people refer to them as a cult. They are not a cult and don’t meet any of the criteria of one. No charismatic leader, no recruitment, all the locals that die are volunteers. The outsiders that are killed, except maybe Christian, break rules and/or are disrespectful or a threat to the community. Plus, everyone seems to forget that this ritual happens every 90 years. Like Wicker Man, a self sufficient society that requires a small number of deaths once a century, half of which are locals that volunteer or are chosen at random. That’s a better murder count than any Christian society I’ve ever heard of.
This quote in particular was quite a larf: “Is it weird that if the cost of maintaining a low-stress community where people spend their days singing and dancing and their nights fucking in a field with a bunch of other locals is the grisly death of one miserable, judgmental dick, then I’ll be the first in line to grab a torch” 👍😂
Came here to say, it’s not just you. Digging in to watch The Wicker Man as we speak. Great piece!!!
A couple of years late, but I agree with you 100%. Just because people belong to a different religion than you doesn’t make them evil or heathens. FYI: the Nick Cage remake plays a much crueler trick to get him on the island.
I love Midsommar and I get so annoyed when people refer to them as a cult. They are not a cult and don’t meet any of the criteria of one. No charismatic leader, no recruitment, all the locals that die are volunteers. The outsiders that are killed, except maybe Christian, break rules and/or are disrespectful or a threat to the community. Plus, everyone seems to forget that this ritual happens every 90 years. Like Wicker Man, a self sufficient society that requires a small number of deaths once a century, half of which are locals that volunteer or are chosen at random. That’s a better murder count than any Christian society I’ve ever heard of.
It's not just you! I'm also on the side of the Summerisle folks. I gotta watch this again; it's been years.
This quote in particular was quite a larf: “Is it weird that if the cost of maintaining a low-stress community where people spend their days singing and dancing and their nights fucking in a field with a bunch of other locals is the grisly death of one miserable, judgmental dick, then I’ll be the first in line to grab a torch” 👍😂