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Ari Aster is a genius but....


There are problems:

1) Would you ignore a giant parchment which depicts a woman cutting her pubic hair and collecting her period before serving it to someone?
2) Would you stay at such a commune after witnessing two people commit suicide (moreover one doesn't die right away and they have to bash his head in)?
3) Would you, as Simon, go and tell these freaks you're leaving rather than just getting up in the middle of the night and escaping quietly?
4) After eating a pie and finding a pubic hair would you continue eating and drinking more of the commune's produce?

And these were supposed to be intelligent, educated people.

Also unintentionally funny bits:

1) The old woman pushing Christian's backside while he's having sex
2) Christian running out of the building buck naked, running into some people and then covering his bits! Was like a Benny Hill sketch.

It was worth a watch but I knew what I was getting into having watched Hereditary. Just found the climax (no pun intended) of the film a little too protracted.

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Agreed.
+ How are they not socially creepled? I mean Pelle grew up with those morals and habits, how is he ready for the rest of the world, educated and acts and seems normal?

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Pelle's visitors were anthropologists, except Dani. The two from London do freak out right away and try to leave. You should read about anthropologists in New Guineau and South America to see how far people are willing to go.

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