People Still Don't Realize Midsommar Is About White Supremacy!

I thought it was about the danger of cults and how they take advantage of people with mental illness to get new recruits.

From the article:

"In Aster’s words, the Hårga were designed as racists and represent “a part of Swedish history and European history.” And when they look outside their conservative community for “new blood” they can recruit or use for breeding purposes, they are exclusively searching for white people."

What kind of quote is this? They're quoting him, but insert their own preface. lmao.

The movie isn't about specifically racism. It's about cults. Whether that be religions, gangs, terrorist org's what have you. That's what it is about. Cult mentality reaches into all of these things and creates a ton of problems as you can learn from watching any documentary on the subject.

People NEED to stop making everything about race. It's okay to have discussions about race, but the way the internet handles it is your cult right there.

IMHO it's a mistake to categorize the Vikings and their religion as "racist", considering the number of white people they murdered, enslaved, and raped.

The movie makes perfect sense now! A lonely woman who lost her family gains a new one from white supremacists who use the sense of belonging to a close-knit community in order to recruit new members. That's how it's done in real life, too!

"Aster, a filmmaker coming from a Jewish family, chose to use Nordic elements to represent this all-white community. It’s not news that Nationalist movements in Europe looked back at an idealized version of Viking culture to justify their racist ideals.

White supremacy groups have not been gaining strength in the last decade by spitting out threats. Their most powerful weapon is a sense of community. In a world ravaged by an everlasting economic crisis and the irreparable destruction of nature, it’s only natural people feel lost and helpless. And while minorities have been banding together to celebrate their culture and fight for equal rights, the average white person doesn’t have the same kind of community to turn to. That’s how white supremacists attract people, with empathy and an open heart. Just like the Hårga.

Pelle wants to show Dani she doesn’t have to be alone, as the Hårga can become a family to her, too.

And the fact people still didn’t realize Midsommar is about white supremacy shows how successfully Aster showed the world even the most despicable communities can still recruit new members if they distract you with empathy."

Scary stuff! I've heard former white supremacists explain how they were recruited by a "friendly group" because they felt isolated and alone. Similar story with other domestic terrorist groups and street gangs.

Yes. It was almost on the nose, really. The community is all white. They have a planned policy of breeding and even inbreeding. The choice this time falls on a white male called Christian. The non-whites are all eliminated: the couple from London and Josh. Mark, who I think is gay, is also disposed of.

Hmm, I thought it was about the dangers of easily influenced, needy little bitches who are desperate for attention.

I enjoyed this film, but is it was supposed to be an analogy for white supremacy, it failed.

The film almost seems to be celebrating the fates of Dani's companions. Their deaths are so lurid and almost comical, and they are presented as such flawed, petty, feckless characters, that whilst their fates are undoubtedly disturbing, there's a sense of 'karma' to them, as if we're meant to believe they've been righteously punished.

I doubt Ari Aster would want us to feel that way if his intent was to present the cult as white supremacists, UNLESS he is a white supremacist himself. 🤷‍♂️

Once again, this seems like another example of the type of shallow, superficial criticism one sadly now expects in today's post-Trump society (i.e. 'people do bad things therefore they must be the villains', in other words, judging a film's characters, solely on the basis of their actions, rather than picking up on nuances, character details, and the way a film's mood and tone directs us to feel a certain way about various characters).

Okay! I don't think it's a film about white supremacy, even though the characters are undoubtedly racist, and I also don't think it's a story about cults specifically.

I think it's a story about the highest level of psychological torture, the kind that completely breaks the victim, to the point that the victim becomes completely dependent on the torturer because their selfhood has been destroyed. And that's what the final choice was about, they singled one person out for this kind of psychological abuse and the rest for death, they first seduced her with inclusion and joy, but at the end they destroyed her by making her choose who would die. That made her feel complicit in their crimes, and the resulting flood of guild and self-recrimination finished the job of destroying her self-image, destroyed the person she had been and left nothing behind. I think a person can resist abuse as long as they believe they're in the right, that they're the good person, but once that was gone... there was absolutely nothing left at that final moment but the catharsis of the sacrifice. She was theirs from then on.