Thank you for the link -- doesn't appear they got any of it right. Hardly surprising. The writer appears to have relied heavily on items taken from Medieval rituals, mostly in Germany and England or rituals taken from horror novels and Christian superstition.
The neat thing about summer nights here is that it never gets completely dark, it's just twilight for a few hours. Further south, you'd have to shoot during the 10 minutes of twilight every day and it'd take weeks to get just one scene. But still, it's a pity.
Here -- it may stay light until roughly 9 depending on where you are. In Winnipeg, Canada, it's daylight close to 10 pm, then falls into twilight, but I don't think it ever gets dark. And the sun is up roughly around 4- 5 Am, depending on how far North you are.
I think what the director of MidSommar was going for -- was to see if he could do a horror film in broad daylight, where there are no shadows to hide in. Which had mixed results. I don't know why he picked Sweden of all places. I wonder if you may be right and he visited it and had a weird experience.
I'm not entirely sure the plot works for me (There has never been a boyfriend who’s more of a wet lump of nothingness than Christian is pretty much spot on, he's not even an asshole worthy of revenge, just... boring) but I do like that it's about more than just Who Will Live And Who Will Die.
Yeah, from what I've read -- I don't think the plot would work for me either. We have what amounts to a wet noodle of a boyfriend, who just floats through life with a woman who is going through a traumatic experience. And they've been together for "two" years and she is still with this guy? Why? Wouldn't she have broken up with him by now?
Also, the men in the film seem to be rather one-dimensional, which also doesn't work for me. And they go to a festival that is only practiced every 90 years in a foreign country, in a community that doesn't admit outsiders except in this instance? Okay.
My difficulty with a lot of horror films is that so many of the characters they choose to kill off -- I don't care about. And the deaths often don't fell earned, so much as random gory shockers or the result of something dumb, that the character did because the plot required it. I'm not sure this is the case here -- from what I've read, it seems that they did dumb things in character. Like urinate on a sacred place, or sneak into a sacred place to pictures without permission, or mate with someone they were told not to. Although from the review -- it also appears they'd have been killed anyhow, so it doesn't matter.
My other problem with it -- is the reliance on pagan stereotypes and cliche. I like what you stated above about someone doing a horror flick about Thanksgiving or how about Passover or Easter? Honestly, the whole Wicker Man thing has been so over done by now -- it's become a humorous cliche.
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The neat thing about summer nights here is that it never gets completely dark, it's just twilight for a few hours. Further south, you'd have to shoot during the 10 minutes of twilight every day and it'd take weeks to get just one scene. But still, it's a pity.
Here -- it may stay light until roughly 9 depending on where you are. In Winnipeg, Canada, it's daylight close to 10 pm, then falls into twilight, but I don't think it ever gets dark. And the sun is up roughly around 4- 5 Am, depending on how far North you are.
I think what the director of MidSommar was going for -- was to see if he could do a horror film in broad daylight, where there are no shadows to hide in. Which had mixed results. I don't know why he picked Sweden of all places. I wonder if you may be right and he visited it and had a weird experience.
I'm not entirely sure the plot works for me (There has never been a boyfriend who’s more of a wet lump of nothingness than Christian is pretty much spot on, he's not even an asshole worthy of revenge, just... boring) but I do like that it's about more than just Who Will Live And Who Will Die.
Yeah, from what I've read -- I don't think the plot would work for me either. We have what amounts to a wet noodle of a boyfriend, who just floats through life with a woman who is going through a traumatic experience. And they've been together for "two" years and she is still with this guy? Why? Wouldn't she have broken up with him by now?
Also, the men in the film seem to be rather one-dimensional, which also doesn't work for me. And they go to a festival that is only practiced every 90 years in a foreign country, in a community that doesn't admit outsiders except in this instance? Okay.
My difficulty with a lot of horror films is that so many of the characters they choose to kill off -- I don't care about. And the deaths often don't fell earned, so much as random gory shockers or the result of something dumb, that the character did because the plot required it. I'm not sure this is the case here -- from what I've read, it seems that they did dumb things in character. Like urinate on a sacred place, or sneak into a sacred place to pictures without permission, or mate with someone they were told not to. Although from the review -- it also appears they'd have been killed anyhow, so it doesn't matter.
My other problem with it -- is the reliance on pagan stereotypes and cliche. I like what you stated above about someone doing a horror flick about Thanksgiving or how about Passover or Easter? Honestly, the whole Wicker Man thing has been so over done by now -- it's become a humorous cliche.