welcome back to movie recaps today i
will show you a horror
mystery film from 2019 titled midsummer
spoilers ahead
watch out and take care danny is worried
about her parents who aren't picking up
their phone
she sits at her computer rereading her
sister's ominous message
suspicious about what she means by it
unsure of what to do
danny calls her boyfriend for
reassurance he tells her that she's
putting too much thought into her
sister's email and that it's probably
another grab for attention
she's a little upset because it sounds
like he doesn't understand that her
sister is bipolar
even though danny is in tears she still
agrees with his opinion
after that call she paces around her
apartment talking to a friend about her
boyfriend
she's worried that she's being too needy
but her friend tells her that if he
feels that way then maybe he's not the
right one
during the call she sends another email
to her sister
suddenly she gets a second call from an
unknown number meanwhile
danny's boyfriend christian is out with
his friends talking to them about her
they suggest that he should leave her
because she's too overbearing but he
worries that if he does that he might
regret it later
he suddenly gets another call from her
and leaves the table to answer
christian picks up the phone only to
hear her screaming and crying on the
other side of the line
he walks to her apartment and later he's
seen comforting her as she continues to
cry uncontrollably because her entire
family died
simultaneously firemen are seen breaking
into her parents house
they find them dead in their own bed her
sister has killed herself and taken them
with her
a while later danny is lying on her bed
depressed
christian comes in and tells her that
he'll go to a party she says that she'll
join him
even though he's not particularly eager
about that at the party
danny's interest is sparked by a
conversation her boyfriend and his
friends pele
josh and mark are having about the
summer trip to sweden the group had been
planning
it's the first time she's hearing about
it and the trip is in two weeks
back at her apartment she confronts him
asking why he didn't tell her
he tries to weasel around the issue but
danny doesn't understand why christian
wasn't open with her
she doesn't have a problem with him
going on the trip he says he's sorry and
she tells him that she doesn't need an
apology
just openness danny softens worried that
he'll leave
then asks if he'll be going because of
his thesis he still doesn't know what
that will be
some time after christian is hanging out
with his friends and they're talking
about sweden
danny calls him to say that she'll be up
in a moment while waiting
christian tells them that he invited her
on the trip but that she won't go
even though she said yes they're upset
with him but promised to act as if they
knew about the invitation and as they
don't have a problem with it
danny arrives and they all greet her
nicely but act super awkward toward her
mark asks christian to join him in the
other room pele chats with danny while
josh completely ignores her
she asks about the week he had planned
for the group in his village because her
birthday will be on the same day that
they'll be arriving
he tells her that it's actually a
nine-day festival held by his small
community
pele shows her some photos of previous
festivities and she's very impressed
suddenly he turns to her and says with
all honesty
that he's very glad that she'll be
coming with them he also tells her that
he's very sorry about her parents and
that he can empathize
because he had also lost his own danny
gets upset and runs to the bathroom
on the plane to europe dany cries in the
toilet they arrive to sweden and drive
to pele's village located somewhere in
the north of the country
the group stops in a field where all the
other young people coming back home
gathered pele is greeted by his brother
ingmar who introduces them to his
friends simon and connie
ingmar gives them some shrooms and they
all take it even though danny is
reluctant at first
later they sit under a tree and feel the
effects of the drug
mark is not having a good time pele
guides them through the experience
talking about the nature surrounding
them danny hears distance singing and
freaks out
she walks by a group of people and they
all laugh at her ingmar tries to calm
her
but she runs to the bathroom inside she
has some kind of horrible hallucination
then she dreams about her family she
wakes up and christian tells her that
they've been waiting for her to wake up
for six hours
the entire group of young people walk
through the woods and eventually arrive
at the village
where the people from the community
welcome them they are already wearing
their festival clothes and playing music
danny enjoys the serene atmosphere of
the place smiling and taking it all in
pele greets one of the elders who
welcomes them eagerly
he tells them that the official
festivities will begin the next day
suddenly
their attention is drawn by music
leading them to the center of the
village
the elder civ welcomes all of them to
the festival and wishes them a happy
mid-summer
she says that it had been 90 years since
their last feast and that it will be 90
more until the next one
they raise their glasses and cheer
simultaneously
a disabled child is shown drawing and
not participating in the ceremony
sif passes a torch to an older woman and
then a second one to an older man
proclaiming something to the heavens
meanwhile maya is seen getting ready in
a washroom
music starts outside and she joins the
celebration
she sees the group sitting on the
sidelines as the villagers dance around
them
later maya kicks christian's bottom as
she passes by him during the dance
him and josh go to join in pele gives
danny a gift for her birthday and she
tells him that christian forgot about it
she thanks him for the portrait after a
while pele gives the group a tour around
the village and answers josh's questions
about the community
they see a few children having a lesson
in the grass and he tells them that they
are learning about the power of the
ancient ruins
coney asks danny and christian how long
they've been together and they give a
different answer
during the tour christian spots a
building in the distance it's a sacred
temple
which no one is allowed to enter the
group splits up in two
ingmar and his guests pass by a caged
bear he shows them a long parchment that
tells a love story
pele takes his friends to their
accommodation in a beautifully decorated
cabin
which is shared by all of the people of
the community danny goes to look around
the building and finds a wall of photos
with the may queens
meanwhile pele tells christian that he
forgot her birthday
danny asks about the wall prompting the
whole group to come over
christian calls her outside and starts
singing happy birthday to her while
trying to light a birthday candle
he lies to her first saying that he
didn't forget but got messed up because
of the constant daylight
but when she sees through him he
apologizes and she blows out the candle
that night everyone is preparing for bed
and pele tells them that the first day
of the festival is very important
josh knows why but neither him nor pele
share that with the rest of them
christian wants to search for it but has
no cell service the next day
the celebration for the first day of the
festival is underway
everyone joins the community table in
front of the sacred temple
as young girls are seen picking flowers
christian asks how long they will have
to stand and pele tells him that they'll
stand until it's right to sit
danny comes over and gives him flowers
then a boy rings a bell and the old
couple that received the torches the
previous day arrive at the table
the two of them sit down and everyone
follows josh asks if they are the ones
and pele confirms it
the couple begins eating and all the
others follow again mark spots a girl he
likes on the other side of the table
danny talks to one of the women who
tells her that the babies there are
raised by everyone
the couple stands up and performs some
kind of ritual everyone stands and
drinks in their honor
then the two of them get carried away on
their chairs all of the people follow
them again
except mark everyone is gathered around
a large cliff
looking up at it they're waiting to
witness the sacred custom
the couple gets carried on top of the
cliff and the distant sounds of a horn
can be heard
josh stands next to pele asking if he
can read the scrolls that one of the
elders is reading out of
the old man and woman get their hands
sliced open and they paint their blood
over some ancient runes
the woman appears on the top of the
cliff first she jumps and crashes on the
ground
dany is completely shocked ingmar tries
to calm simon and connie
who are beside themselves then the man
appears on the cliff as well
he jumps but falls on his feet and
doesn't die he gets beaten to death with
a wooden hammer
the foreigners are freaking out and siv
explains the custom to them
she wants that to understand that it is
a great joy for them and that when it's
her turn it will be a great joy for her
to
sif says that they give their life away
before it can spoil
then she turns to danny and says that it
is not good to dodge the inevitable
since it corrupts the spirit the
community is walking back to the village
and the foreigners are running up front
with danny ready to fall apart christian
comes back to the cabin and finds josh
there
working on his thesis he tells him that
he's decided to make his thesis on the
village as well
josh is angry because christian already
knew he was going to write his thesis on
the midsummer festival
he tells him to find his own subject and
passion not take his
but christian is adamant he offers him
to collaborate on the thesis or do
separate ones on the same subject
josh goes to talk to pele immediately
but he tells him that it doesn't matter
what either of them want to write about
because the elders are very protective
of their rituals and they won't allow
them to write about the village
he tells him that he'll talk to the
elders to get him off his back
meanwhile danny is packing frantically
but pele comes over to talk to her
he apologizes saying that he wanted to
share this experience with his friends
she tells him that she doesn't
understand anything in pele says that he
was most excited for her to come
he tells her that he understands what
she's been going through because he lost
his parents in a fire when he was young
yet he found a new family in the
community and he wants to give that to
her
because she deserves a real family later
that day the bodies of the old couple
get disposed off in a ritual way
christian checks on danny but she asks
if he was even disturbed by what they
saw
he says that he was but that it's a
matter of cultural differences and that
they should try to acclimate to the ways
of the community
that night she asks josh for a sleeping
pill but she's still just woken up by
noises in the middle of the night
all of the beds around her are empty so
she follows a few people outside
then she sees christian and his friends
leave she screams and images from the
ritual appear in her mind
one after the other until an image of
her family appears in the foot of the
cliff
she's actually having a nightmare maya
is actually awake
she goes over to christian's bed and
places something under it
josh sees her do that on the second day
of the festival
danny is the only one to sleep late pele
is gardening when mark and josh approach
him
he tells josh that he can write his
thesis but that he can't use any real
names or the location
he also has to collaborate with
christian josh asks him about the thing
that maya left underneath christian's
bed and pele tells him that it's a love
room
christian joins them and pele gives him
the news about the thesis and tells him
that maya seems to like him
suddenly they hear a man screaming and
running toward mark who's taking a piss
over a dead tree
the man goes after him but the others
stop him as pele takes mark to the side
and explains that he peed on the
ancestral tree that has a lot of meaning
for them
connie runs into the cabin and tells
danny that her and simon are leaving
one of the elders comes over and tells
her that her fiance has already left and
that he'll meet her on the train station
she can't believe that he would leave
her and gets horribly upset
danny tells christian about simon but he
doesn't seem terribly concerned and
continues his conversation about
approval of mates within the community
the man tells him that they often need
to invite people from the outside
danny gets invited by one of the women
to cook with them she
gives her an apron and they tell her
that they are making meat tarts
maya makes a special one meanwhile josh
has a conversation with one of the
elders about their sacred scrolls
the scrolls always have blank pages near
the end because they are ever changing
their last iteration is written by the
disabled child he draws on the blank
pages and the elders interpret it
the elder tells him that all of their
oracles are deliberate products of
inbreeding
so that they have unclouded minds open
for the source mark lurks around the
sacred temple
looking for the girl he likes when a
child calls him for dinner
they get served meat pies danny asks if
anyone has seen connie and one of the
villagers tells her that he drove her to
meet simon at the station
danny doesn't understand how he could
have left her like that and comments
that she could see
christian doing that the man that got
upset about mark pissing on the tree is
still angry about it
josh and christian argue as well he
takes a bite out of the pie and finds a
pubic hair in it then looks at maya
mark gets called away by the girl that
he likes that night
danny asks josh for another sleeping
pill later
he runs over to the cabin where the
scroll is kept and starts taking
pictures of it
mark catches him doing it but as josh
moves closer to him he sees that there
is something wrong
suddenly he gets hit over the head the
disabled child approaches the
unconscious josh wearing mark's face
christian wakes up the next day and sees
that josh is gone from his bed
at breakfast danny asks about mark and
josh but he says that he's not too
concerned
one of the elders proclaims that the
scroll had been stolen and asked that it
gets returned safely
after breakfast two of the elders
approached christian and danny
saying that it's suspicious that two of
their friends ended up missing the same
day
christian throws josh under the bus but
pele says that he feels responsible
danny is sent off with the other women
and christian has to go to meet with civ
a specialty gets prepared for the young
women of the village which danny drinks
as well
the ritual which they call the
competition is about to begin when danny
realizes that the tea probably had
mushrooms in it
an older woman proclaims the beginning
of the competition and the women start
dancing in a circle
meanwhile christian is at siv's home
looking at the iconography on her walls
they sit opposite one another and she
immediately tells him that he had been
approved to mate with maya
the women continue dancing in one by one
drop down and out of the competition
christian joins the crowd that watches
the dance and one of the women gives him
some of the mushroom tea
he glances at maya and drinks it
meanwhile danny keeps getting dizzy
while dancing
but she doesn't stop or fall over only
three of them are left
when she suddenly starts speaking in
swedish with one of the other girls
as they laugh and dance the other two
run into each other
danny is the only one left everyone
stands up and circles her
the older woman crowns her as the may
queen she gets her picture taken and as
they walk her away
pele comes over and kisses her they lift
her in the air and take her to the table
danny sits at the head and everyone
follows her every move
when christian sits down she begins to
eat and everyone else does as well
he doesn't understand what's happening
and starts feeling the effects of the
tea
the entire village cheers for the may
queen they tell her that she's part of
the family now
maya calls christian to follow her into
the barn and danny notices that there's
something happening
civ tells danny that she has to bless
their crops as the queen and doesn't
allow christian to come with her
she enters a carriage being pulled by
some of the young women from the village
as she's driven away christian gets
asked to go to the barn again as the
rest of the villagers stand for him
danny blesses the crops in a traditional
ritual while christian is being prepared
by the elders to mate with maya
they drug him again and lead him in
where the girl is waiting for him
together with other women
danny is still performing the blessing
ritual christian makes love to maya as
the other women sing to her into him as
well
the may queen comes back to the village
and one of the women tells her that civ
is expecting her
she hears something happening in the
barn and goes to check what it is
regardless of the woman's pleads not to
dany peeks inside and sees what is
happening
that goes outside and starts screaming
the women take her away and get her to
her bed
she freaks out and the other women start
mimicking her cries
christian is done with his part of the
ritual and storms out of the barn
he gets confused and disoriented trying
to run away when he sees a foot planet
in the garden
christian hides in a shed where he finds
simon's dead body
an elder sneaks up on him and drugs him
again he gets woken up by a woman who
tells him that he can't speak or move
the final mid-summer ritual begins with
danny at its head
super claims that nine sacrifices will
be made to the village
four of their own four foreigners and
one chosen by the queen
two of their own have already given
their lives and two have volunteered
one of which is ingmar pele is honored
for bringing the new blood
dany has to choose the last of the nine
it is between a local and christian
she makes her choice the bodies are
being taken to the sacred temple at the
foot of the village and are carefully
placed inside
the final is being prepared by the
elders and a few children
they open up the bear's body and place
christian inside of it still alive
the elders bless the offering and give
the two villagers drugs
the temple is ritually set on fire as
the entire community is gathered
outside witnessing the offering
everything inside gets burned away and
the villagers convulse and cry
feeling the pain of their people inside
the may queen looks onto the burning
temple and cracks a final grin
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