Review of Midsommar (2019) by Criticalviewer — 03 Apr 2021

A family reunion in a Scandinavian village becomes a bloody pagan slaughterhouse wherein the foreign guests become human sacrifices. We haven't seen this before? Sure we have. Leaving the auditorium after the movie, someone snorted "Nihilistic garbage," and I think that was a good appraisal of the film.

The movie is tedious and predictable and gratuitously gory. It also has distinctly anti-white and anti-Christian undercurrents. In one advertising image, two young people are walking through a lovely pastoral setting toward what appears to be a wooden cross.

What unsubtle message does that send about Christianity, in general? What message does it send about how the creator of this slop regards Christians? Would he have made such a movie about a village in his ancestral homeland, Israel, a movie in which the villagers are discovered to be practicing the "Blood Libel," and abducting and sacrificing tourist Christian children? Of course not.

In "Midsommar," portraying some of the victim visitors as nonwhites -- visitors to a lily white Swedish hamlet -- is also some nasty messaging, on one level or another. Visually, this film is engaging and vivid and colorful.

The story is mildly interesting, but predictable. I am nonetheless ashamed that any Christian or Swede agreed to participate in this spectacle.