Review of Midsommar (2019) by Trineo99 — 09 Jul 2019

First of all, this film is two-hours and twenty-seven-minutes and for the first hour you don’t really feel the time but towards the end, you could definitely feel it as it starts to drag on. I will admit that all of the scenes in this film were necessary for the film but just dragged on far too long.

This could be because the director, Ari Aster, wanted to show off the sets but it still doesn’t need to be that long. I will say though that all of the sets were gorgeous, and you could tell the set designers got to have fun with this movie.

This film only takes place in one location which without good set design would get boring after a bit but because everything was beautiful to look at, I didn’t mind. Also, the cinematography was outstanding in this film.

You can easily see in both of Ari Aster’s films that he really cares about cinematography and how it can help show the story and change the way people feel. I will say there are some cool transition techniques that were used in this film to help change from one location to the next.

Now, I’m not going to roast the actors because it’s obvious that they all were giving it their all in this movie but at the same time I just couldn’t get invested into these characters at all. They all pretty much seemed like the exact same character trait just changed slightly a bit.

But really throughout the entire film, they just remained that same flat kind of character. In the end, this film may not have been for me but for others, it might be worth checking out. At least watch clips of it to see the stunning scenery and cinematography.