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Let me start off by saying that the story indeed does have some plot holes, and there are definitely parts where you need to let some poorly worked out details slide to keep yourself hooked, but other than that I found it quite enjoyable.

Sure, its a pity that such a good premise wasn't worked out to the fullest since the premise had so much potential in itself, but I do feel people are being to harsh on it. If you take the story for what it is (fantasy) than anything is possible, including the more unbelievable decisions made in the plot.

Midsommar is Ari Asters second movie, one for which the stakes were set pretty high after his debut movie Hereditary, which seemed to be a beloved horror gem for film critics around the world. With Midsommar he proves his succes was not a one time coincidence, showing the world a fresh and unique way of making slow-burn horror.

Where hereditary was, in it's essence, a family drama turned outright horror, Midsommar does something similar with a relationship drama. We straight away get to dive into the relationship of Dani and Christian, which seems to have slowly bled to death, leaving Dani worried and a bit desperate for their future and Christian not caring anymore. After Dani suffers a horrible tragedy however, Christian stays with her out of pity and some very awkward scenes later she gets invited to come with him and his friends to the Midsommar festival in Sweden.

Just the fact that at this time of year it is almost always day in Sweden, makes you eerie and disoriented, the movie slowly drops hints, backed up by beautiful visuals , of the horror that will ensue, always with the relationship drama serving as its backbone, even in the final scenes where you might get distracted by the chaos. It not once has to rely on jump-scares to make things dreadful, which in my opinion is what good quality horror is about.

This movie just waits for you to dig deeper and pay close attention to the details, which is not for everyone, but if you are open to that kind of thing you will most certainly love it.

Somehow the writers make the simple storyline of this movie work. The protagonist enters a vertical prison which consist of a many two-person cels or 'levels'. With a giant square hole piercing through all of them, made only for a same-sized 'platform' with food to fit through. Each day the prisoners have 2 minutes to take as much food as they like of off the platform, with the top levels eating well and hardly anything being left for the bottom levels. Each month the prisoners get resigned to a different, random level. This prompts the ones on top to greedily eat all the food they can because they fear the level they might be on next month.

The fairly simple, quite obvious metaphor is of course that this prison model resembles our society, in which we will only think about ourselves when we have it good, and, if stripped of laws, will still think only about ourselves when we have it bad. Just in an endlessly more gory and barbaric way of course. It shows how people are willing to go to desperate measures for survival, and still after suffering will not share with others when they have it good again.

Would have liked to see a little more character development since you don't really get to know much about the people the protagonist encounters. But overall I can't complain, a solid dystopian horror that's entertaining and tense to watch!