movieposting: Midsommar
Oct. 12th, 2025 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teslac0ilsThis one sure was a hell of a way to kick off my movie-watching list. Damn.
I watched this as one of the last few stragglers at the end of a party, all of us not quite ready to go home yet, and flipping through the horror genre section on whatever streaming service they had, looking for one we'd like to see. We agreed on this one because we all had some vague idea that lots of people said it was a good movie but none of us really had any idea what we were getting into. In retrospect, I feel like that was an oddly appropriate way to arrive at this story.
I mean this in the best way, this one kind of fucked me up. I've been mentally digesting it for days. I adore the way it maintains the sense of dread and disorientation in bright, wide-open spaces. It really hit me somewhere personal. The dim light and tight spaces of conventional horror are not inherently frightening to me once you subtract the threat; what really unnerves me is thought of being too visible, having nowhere to hide or even take a break from being seen. Everything too exposed for you to see any places where danger might be lurking. While very unnerving on a personal level, it was also really cool for me to see such an incredible representation of that kind of menace.
I watched this as one of the last few stragglers at the end of a party, all of us not quite ready to go home yet, and flipping through the horror genre section on whatever streaming service they had, looking for one we'd like to see. We agreed on this one because we all had some vague idea that lots of people said it was a good movie but none of us really had any idea what we were getting into. In retrospect, I feel like that was an oddly appropriate way to arrive at this story.
I mean this in the best way, this one kind of fucked me up. I've been mentally digesting it for days. I adore the way it maintains the sense of dread and disorientation in bright, wide-open spaces. It really hit me somewhere personal. The dim light and tight spaces of conventional horror are not inherently frightening to me once you subtract the threat; what really unnerves me is thought of being too visible, having nowhere to hide or even take a break from being seen. Everything too exposed for you to see any places where danger might be lurking. While very unnerving on a personal level, it was also really cool for me to see such an incredible representation of that kind of menace.
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Date: 2025-10-13 05:11 am (UTC)