Midsommar movie disco.. vacheyandamma..

[Ellen]

9 minutes ago, dasari4kntr said:

yaa..

very last scene lo...may queen also smiles..that mean she also...converted...? (or she lost mind..)

graphics was really good...flowers on her crown also...kind of smiling/animating..etc

No not because of that. She has faced worst situations till then in her life kada, like losing her parents and all. She abstains from expressing her grief time and again with the fear of losing Christian. So her emotions pile up and she needed to purge them all out. Ending lo she found the Harga as her family and purged out her emotions with burning Christian. So the smile was let out out with kind of a relief, now she can be herself~ I know this is sort of sad and inhumane but this is movie and not real life so deeni ethics pakkana pedite, purging felt good for Dani laga teeskovachu. 

The best part for me with the movie was how the screenplay was written, we watch the whole thing not like a movie audience but from "Dani's" perspective~ now this is different from "PoV" sort of writing. Manam telikundane unconscious ga we journey with Dani through these rituals and to keep us engaged all the visuals and sounds helped is what i felt

[Raven_Rayes]

12 minutes ago, Ellen said:

Not sure why you are so focused on the theme. Not all movies are about story or themes. And none of the characters were meant to have an arc. It is not your regular hollywood film to have a meaningful real life kind of direction. Shocking scenes ante, not for the obvious ones, but certain practices the tribe does, how it seems utterly normal to them, how they are able to rationalize such stuff alantivi baga captivate chesaru. One on hand you have normal people unable to comprehend whats going on, on the other hand you other set of peaceful characters doing this Kaand. Sound mixing and visuals had me in. That utterly captivating scene is such because of wailing... the crying just not crying but the effects sound brought in could leave that impact. There are many scenes which were tripping, like Dani's reaction to mushrooms the first time, that may queen dance etc. We sort of experience what is Dani experiencing, rather than watching it like an audience. 

 

11 minutes ago, Ellen said:

You need  to become more accepting and indulgent to understand why some characters were written in a certain way.  Also, knowing you  from the past, if you didnt watch this movie in one go, it wont have the same tripping effect as it did on others. 

fair enough. I did watch the movie at one go. Like I said, this is the kind of movie I expect to like, but it felt underwhelming. may be I don't understand trippiness visually.

I have no problem with movies that lack a theme or story. And I don't think this is a bad movie. Its a very good movie, with some amazing scenes, but expects the viewers to fill in a lot of blanks that the director leaves with his overindulgent visual style.

The style reminds me of auteurs like Alejandro Jodorowsky, who's only movie I watched was 'dance of reality', whose visual drama set right in the middle of a revolution.

but here, I felt that there's not enough meat in the movie for me to bite into, and the trippiness doesn't work for me.

 

[Raven_Rayes]

8 minutes ago, Ellen said:

No not because of that. She has faced worst situations till then in her life kada, like losing her parents and all. She abstains from expressing her grief time and again with the fear of losing Christian. So her emotions pile up and she needed to purge them all out. Ending lo she found the Harga as her family and purged out her emotions with burning Christian. So the smile was let out out with kind of a relief, now she can be herself~ I know this is sort of sad and inhumane but this is movie and not real life so deeni ethics pakkana pedite, purging felt good for Dani laga teeskovachu. 

The best part for me with the movie was how the screenplay was written, we watch the whole thing not like a movie audience but from "Dani's" perspective~ now this is different from "PoV" sort of writing. Manam telikundane unconscious ga we journey with Dani through these rituals and to keep us engaged all the visuals and sounds helped is what i felt

she's a great actor.

[Raven_Rayes]

9 minutes ago, Ellen said:

No not because of that. She has faced worst situations till then in her life kada, like losing her parents and all. She abstains from expressing her grief time and again with the fear of losing Christian. So her emotions pile up and she needed to purge them all out. Ending lo she found the Harga as her family and purged out her emotions with burning Christian. So the smile was let out out with kind of a relief, now she can be herself~ I know this is sort of sad and inhumane but this is movie and not real life so deeni ethics pakkana pedite, purging felt good for Dani laga teeskovachu. 

The best part for me with the movie was how the screenplay was written, we watch the whole thing not like a movie audience but from "Dani's" perspective~ now this is different from "PoV" sort of writing. Manam telikundane unconscious ga we journey with Dani through these rituals and to keep us engaged all the visuals and sounds helped is what i felt

she completely owned the movie. what a star.

[Ellen]

8 minutes ago, Raven_Rayes said:

 

fair enough. I did watch the movie at one go. Like I said, this is the kind of movie I expect to like, but it felt underwhelming. may be I don't understand trippiness visually.

I have no problem with movies that lack a theme or story. And I don't think this is a bad movie. Its a very good movie, with some amazing scenes, but expects the viewers to fill in a lot of blanks that the director leaves with his overindulgent visual style.

The style reminds me of auteurs like Alejandro Jodorowsky, who's only movie I watched was 'dance of reality', whose visual drama set right in the middle of a revolution.

but here, I felt that there's not enough meat in the movie for me to bite into, and the trippiness doesn't work for me.

 

Makes sense

 I am sharing an article below, it definitely gives us something to think - though the article itself is not so greatly written neither does it say  anything, it just gives us  some fuel to think, in fact reddit lo r/midsommar has great discussions on this  movie

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/7/3/19102557/midsommar-ending-spoilers

[Ellen]

3 minutes ago, Raven_Rayes said:

she completely owned the movie. what a star.

Did you watch little women? Andulo Saoirse and this lady iragadeesaru, some powerful actresses!!

[Raven_Rayes]

2 minutes ago, Ellen said:

Did you watch little women? Andulo Saoirse and this lady iragadeesaru, some powerful actresses!!

next on my list.

[tennisluvrredux]

I loved the concept of people killing themselves by jumping off a cliff once they reach 72 years of age. 

[Raven_Rayes]

anyway its best to watch a movie, and experience it as close as possible to what the director intended, than to imagine how we would  like the movie to be.

especially when there's such brilliance on display in sound mixing, and cinematography front, not to mention the acting.

 

 

[Raven_Rayes]

3 minutes ago, tennisluvrredux said:

I loved the concept of people killing themselves by jumping off a cliff once they reach 72 years of age. 

lol. too young. I prefer atleast 100, and with medical tech may be 200 in the future.

[kfrockz]

Thanks Dbians. Friday off petta. em cheddama ani thinking. oka movie ki recent ga inni posts. started watching already

 

[Raven_Rayes]

2 hours ago, Ellen said:

i would have suggesteed personally queenu nuv chudagalav ankunte. My husband tittadu for making him watch it lol  movie making kosam chusa tbf Martin Scorsese introduction chadivaka I watched the movie, so i was looking at the elements he highlighted. Here is what he said about the movie

I like watching older movies I’ve never seen. I like revisiting the ones I have seen. I like watching new movies. And I love discovering the work of filmmakers that aren’t known to me, particularly younger filmmakers that are just starting out.

 

What am I looking for? I’m looking for people with a need to express something. “I need you to experience this…” Not an idea or a theme as much as a whole experience, or a recollection, or a profound emotional impression from which the ideas and the themes emerge organically, so to speak. It’s difficult to put into words for a reason: because it can be expressed in moving images and sounds — in other words, cinema.

A couple of years ago, I watched a first film called Hereditary by a director named Ari Aster. Right from the start, I was impressed. Here was a young filmmaker that obviously knew cinema. The formal control, the precision of the framing and the movement within the frame, the pacing of the action, the sound — it was all there, immediately evident.

But as the picture went on, it started to affect me in different ways. It became disturbing to the point of being uncomfortably so, particularly during the remarkable family dinner scene after the sister has been killed.

Like all memorable horror films, it tunnels deep into something unnameable and unspeakable, and the violence is as emotional as it is physical.

Obviously, I was looking forward to Midsommar, which sounded like it was going to be made on a more ambitious scale — shot in a foreign country, bigger cast, slightly bigger budget. Sometimes, in particular cases that I can remember, a relatively successful first picture has led to a more expensive but less impressive second feature. More money sometimes means the possibility of more interference and anxiety and eagerness to please, making the picture less concentrated and more diffuse.

So, I started watching Midsommar, and very early on, I knew that this was not going to be the case.

I don’t want to give away anything about this picture, because you need to discover it for yourself. I can tell you that the formal control is just as impressive as that of Hereditary, maybe more so, and that it digs into emotions that are just as real and deeply uncomfortable as the ones shared between the characters in the earlier picture. I can also tell you that there are true visions in this picture, particularly in the final stretch, that you are not likely to forget. I certainly haven’t.

 

woww... scorsese writes so well.

[Sputnik]

1 hour ago, Ellen said:

Did you watch little women? Andulo Saoirse and this lady iragadeesaru, some powerful actresses!!

I did. But it's been a while.

[Sputnik]

ee movie endulo undhi.

will cover over the weekend if possible

[Raven_Rayes]

Just now, Sputnik said:

ee movie endulo undhi.

will cover over the weekend if possible

Prime lo undhi.. but I downloaded it. Prime subscription teeskunnantha maatrana personal ethics vadulko kudadhu kadha