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Ep. 36: Midsommar

Cinema of Meaning

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The Movie Is Set Up Like It's Dark and Isn't It All Out in the Day

The movie is set up with this cultural lens of at the beginning we're established with this western society that's very individualistic like you said it's also not facing directly the horror of what happened to danny so there's a sense where she's not even used to the idea of talking about it. There's no sense of collectively anyone else acknowledging what she is going through or the horror ofwhat she has gone through at the beginning. I think that's inseparable from their relationship because part of what makes christian in my eyes is the kind of dismissesness of how he engages with her grief or the scenario but that's also one aspect of the movie where and this is why I

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