The Top 100 Project

Our 355th episode closes out July with the ideal movie for the middle of the summer…Midsommar! Ari Aster’s provocative breakup movie isn’t as outstanding as his marvelous debut (Hereditary), but it’s got a lot of meat on the bear-bone. And if you enjoy foreshadowing in your films, you’ll be in heaven with this one. Geez, it’s painted on the walls! Both of us do have major problems with the ending, even though our issues aren’t entirely the same ones. We have no complaints about the work of the remarkable Florence Pugh…even if some of the things Aster has her do don’t make sense for her empathetic character. Ryan stirs up the muck again by having sympathy for the devil—justice for Christian!—and even some sympathy for this movie’s real villains (those goldurned Swedes). But as a certain book says, judge not lest you…know the rest. So smile as people die a fiery, horrible death because revenge is now…something to celebrate? EXTRA THOUGHTS: Bev mentioned that Ryan has a theory, but we didn’t get into it. This is