How Midsommar Brainwashes You

The ecstasy of indoctrination.

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Featuring the Voices of Anthony Backman, Phoebe Kuhlman, Tim Kopacz, Guy Picot, Bruno Oliver, Marian Gonzalez, Sarah Cortez, David Miller, Tyler Wellman, Jaime Andrews, Jessie Bias, Kellen Crager, Jason Matthis

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The Night of the Hunter: Victims of Faith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUHt0p_x0LM
Darren Aronofsky: Horror as Greek Tragedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaXTaUWgT6Y
Misery: Monsters Aren’t Always Mysterious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK6Bob0selc
The Existential Dread of the Elevator Shift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhphOw2gesE

Shout out to Jacob Geller and In Praise of Shadows, whose tone and aesthetics helped to give me something to aspire to.

SOURCES

Adam Chitwood, ‘Midsommar’ Ending Explained: We’re All in This Together https://collider.com/midsommar-ending-explained/
Alexandra Stein, How Totalism Works https://www.academia.edu/33605474/How_Totalism_Works_-_Aeon_Magazine
Alissa Wilkinson, Ari Aster on his new film Midsommar: “I keep telling people I want it to be confusing” https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/7/2/18744431/ari-aster-midsommar-interview-spoilers
Britt Hayes, Midsommar Takes A Cathartic Trip From Trauma To Acceptance https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/07/08/midsommar-cathartic-trip
Carly Lane, How Midsommar Illustrates The Catharsis Of Expressing Emotion https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/how-midsommar-illustrates-the-catharsis-of-expressing-emotion
CIY schedule https://new.ciy.com/move/dates-locations/info/mov20fl3
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
Danielle Ryan, ‘Midsommar’: Ari Aster and Florence Pugh’s Complex, Climactic Catharsis https://www.slashfilm.com/midsommar-catharsis/
Fleur Brown, I grew up in a cult and I can tell you why ‘normal’ people join them https://www.insider.com/i-grew-up-in-a-cult-and-i-can-tell-you-why-normal-people-join-them-2018-3
George Write, Nxivm: ‘Why I joined a cult - and how I left’ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47900242
Glenn Collins, The Psychology of the Cult Experience nytimes.com/1982/03/15/style/the-psychology-of-the-cult-experience.html
Hillary Hoffower and Allana Akhtar, Lonely, burned out, and depressed: The state of millennials’ mental health entering the 2020s https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-mental-health-burnout-lonely-depressed-money-stress
J. Gordon Melton, The Rise of the Study of New Religions https://www.cesnur.org/testi/bryn/br_melton.htm
Karen Han, Is the cult in Midsommar real? https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/5/20681187/midsommar-spoilers-cult-harga-ari-aster
Robert Jay Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
Mark Olsen, ‘Midsommar’ explained: The filmmakers unpack the sex, reituals and shocking ending https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-midsommar-spoilers-ari-aster-jack-reynor-20190703-story.html
Meagan Navarro, Midsommar Director Ari Aster on Hidden Clues and the Debate Surrounding the Controversial Ending https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/07/ari-aster-midsommar-interview/
Minda Zetlin, Millennials Are the Loneliest Generation, A Survey Shows https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/millennials-loneliness-no-friends-friendships-baby-boomers-yougov.html
Now It’s Dark, Midsommar: How Ari Aster Unsettles You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6lR4VNabJ4
Ryan Hollinger, Why Midsommar Broke Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Por7tzo8qqc
Tara Isabella Burton, What is a cult? https://aeon.co/essays/theres-no-sharp-distinction-between-cult-and-regular-religion

FOOTAGE FROM

Midsommar
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
THX 1138
Jaws
CIY
Film At Lincoln Center, Ari Aster on Midsommar, Cathartic Endings, the Director's Cut, and His Favorite Films, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPGaPTdno10
4K Relaxation Channel, PHACELIA FLOWERS FIELD Relaxation Video - THANK YOU-video to ALL our subscribers! - FREE DOWNLOAD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRVGEdgr06k

MUSIC

“All Creatures of Our God And King” by William Henry Draper, played by LiahonaNet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeugOSb2CAM
“Banished” by Mark Korven, from The Witch Soundtrack
“Prism” by Tim Hecker, from Virgins
“Prophecy,” “Gassed,” “Halsingland,” and “Fire Temple” by Bobby Krlic, from Midsommar Soundtrack
“Rivers of Sand” by Fennesz, from Venice
“Six Hours To Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold” by The KLF, from Chill Out
“The Mirror Reflecting (Part 1)” by The Haxan Cloak, from Excavation
“Under Stars II” by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, & Roger Eno, from Apollo
“Winter’s Bone” by Kirsten Agresta Copely, from Around the Sun

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