Film · Prime Video · 2019

Midsommar

Daylight does not make a cult a home. Adults. The ending is not a cure.

Dani's grief is real, and the film is right that a lonely person will accept a chorus. It is wrong, and it knows it is showing a wrong, when the chorus asks for her companions and her judgment. A smile in a field is not mercy. The picture is meticulously made and morally easy to misuse by anyone who wants the last fire to feel like medicine. It is not medicine. It is a trade of one pain for a belonging that kills.

Do not watch it in a low season and call the cult your complex feelings. Call a person who is not in costume.

The eight

Industry
3/10
Ritual as labor, turned to harm.
Household
2/10
Grief exploited. A false household.
Piety
2/10
Counterfeit religion, carefully dressed.
Courage
3/10
Endurance inside a trap.
Republic
2/10
A people closed against the stranger's life.
Temperance
2/10
The feeling is indulged to the end.
Truth
6/10
It shows the recruitment honestly.
Stewardship
1/10
It leaves a picture too easy to romanticize.

Live historicallyDo not look for a family among people who isolate you from your dead.

Film · Prime Video · 2014

It Follows

Fear of consequence is not the same as chastity. Adults. Do not treat the walk as a metaphor you need.

The film's image is strong: a thing that does not hurry and does not forget. People have used it as a sermon. It is not a sermon. It knows dread, not repentance, and it has no interest in a fidelity that is more than a tactic. The slow walk is a good picture of a consequence. The film's answer, to hand the consequence down the line, is the opposite of courage.

You can say the useful sentence without the movie. What you do with another person's body does not stay in the hour you wanted. Then leave the curse imagery in the theater.

The eight

Industry
2/10
No work. A drift.
Household
2/10
Sex as a transfer. No household.
Piety
1/10
Dread without a law above it.
Courage
4/10
They face it, then try to pass it.
Republic
2/10
A suburb of isolated kids.
Temperance
3/10
The lesson is fear, not governance.
Truth
5/10
Consequence is real in the frame.
Stewardship
2/10
It hands on a tactic of passing the harm along.

Live historicallyDo not make a curse out of another person.