THE MOVIE PLOT MIDSOMMAR - MOVIE SYNOPSIS

THE MIDSOMMAR MOVIE PLOT -
MIDSOMMAR


The film opens with a mural of a bizarre, eerie ritual taking place. We then see images of dark, snowy forests with the sound
of old folk singing playing in the background.
College student Dani Ardor (Florence Pugh) calls her parents but is sent to voicemail. She expresses concern over her
bipolar sister Terri (Klauda Csanyi), who left her a cryptic message recently. Dani then calls her boyfriend Christian Hughes
(Jack Reynor), who is hanging out with his buddies Josh (William Jackson Harper), Mark (Will Poulter), and Pelle (Vilhelm
Blomgren). Christian assures Dani that this is just another one of Terri’s episodes, but he adds that Dani only feeds into
Terri’s antics. After he hangs up, she gets a call from an unknown number. Josh and Mark think Christian should just end it
with Dani since it’s clear he’s wanted out of the relationship for a while, and as they are planning an upcoming trip to Sweden,
Pelle suggests they will meet lots of other women. Dani calls Christian again and is wailing hysterically. We then see
authorities going into Dani’s parents’ home, where Terri has flooded the house with carbon monoxide, killing her parents
before stuffing the tube into her mouth and taping it there. Christian goes to Dani’s apartment to console her.
A while later, Dani tries to contain her grief. She hangs out with Christian and his friends and learns about their trip to
Sweden to a midsommar celebration in the Harga, a village where Pelle grew up. The celebration occurs every 90 years and
lasts about nine days. Josh, in particular, is interested since he wants to write about the experience for his anthropology
dissertation. Christian invites Dani to be nice, and although she accepts, Christian thinks she doesn’t want to go since she’s
still reeling from the murder-suicide. However, Dani is more upset that Christian is only now telling her about the trip, which
they are set to leave for within two weeks.
Dani and Christian go to hang out with his friends. While he steps out of the room, Pelle talks to Dani about the midsommar
celebration, and their tradition of choosing a May Queen at the end of the celebration. Pelle also tries to console Dani over
her loss, stating that his parents had also passed away, but the mere mention of it triggers her, and she goes to the bathroom
to cry.
Dani joins Christian and his friends for the trip. They drive out to the Harga and meet Pelle’s brother Ingemar (Hampus
Hallberg), plus an English couple named Simon (Archie Madekewe) and Connie (Ellora Torchia). The group takes magic
mushrooms, but Ingemar offers Dani a special tea since it has a better taste. She agrees to it and initially enjoys the trip until
Pelle says that the group is like his family. The word gets to Dani, and she goes to take a walk. She starts to experience a
bad trip, and gets paranoid when another high group of people she comes across starts laughing in her direction. Dani goes
to hide in a shed but is mortified by what appears to be Terri behind her. She then runs into the woods, where the trees
appear to morph around her before she passes out. She briefly dreams about Terri and their parents.
Dani wakes up next to Christian six hours later. They join their friends in going back toward the village to meet the rest of the
Harga community. Josh inquires about the many cultural aspects of the festival and the community, but when he asks about a
mysterious golden teepee in the distance, he doesn’t get a direct answer. A girl named Maja (Isabelle Grill) shows interest in
Christian by playfully kicking him as he sits in a circle.




Pelle later gifts Dani with a drawing of herself for her birthday. She mentions that Christian forgot their birthday, but he later
gives her a slice of cake to make up for it. When asked how long they have been together, Christian thinks it has just been
over three years, but Dani corrects him and says they have been together for four years. Pelle then brings his friends to the
place where they will be sleeping.
The following day, the group joins the community for a feast. Two of the eldest villagers, Ylva (Katarina Weidhagen) and The
Laborer (Lars Varinger), are the guests of honor, as they practice a breathing exercise before the whole community follows
them to the edge of a cliff. The elders cut their hands as they walk by the edge. The newcomers watch in horror as Ylva drops
herself off the cliff and lands facefirst onto a rock, leaving them to witness her gruesome faceless skull. The Laborer leaps off
as well, but he only shatters his leg. He moans in agony, and the villagers mimic the sounds of his moaning. Three of the
villagers proceed to smash his head with a sledgehammer. Simon and Connie express their absolute horror, while Dani
goes back to her room. An elder villager woman, Siv (Gunnel Fred), explains to the group that this is a natural part of their
ritual, as the two elders reached what they felt was the end of their life cycle, and prolonging it further would have been bad.
Pelle goes to comfort Dani, thinking that her distress is linked more to her recent tragedy than it is to what she just witnessed.
He attempts to console Dani, but she thinks him getting close to her is inappropriate since Christian could come in. Pelle
then questions how much Christian really means to Dani, based on how he is around her.
Dani later has a nightmare that Christian and his friends are leaving without her. They drive away in the middle of the night as
she watches them go, and she is plagued by haunting imagery of her dead family and the corpses of the two elders.
After what they saw, Simon and Connie plan to leave, but when Connie is ready to go, she is told that Simon went off with
another villager to the train that would take them home. Connie is angered that Simon would leave without her, and she
proceeds to walk off on her own. Meanwhile, Christian tells Josh he also wants to do his thesis on the Harga, but Josh is not
happy about that. He argues that Christian can never just do his own thing instead of picking off what Josh is doing. Christian
offers to ask the elders if they are allowed to collaborate on the project. Josh later learns that the village’s ritualistic practices
are based on paintings made by a member named Ruben (Levente Puczko-Smith), a deformed boy who was the product of
incest but is viewed as some kind of seer. Josh asks to take pictures of Ruben’s drawings, but he is forbidden.
The elders’ bodies are buried in the middle of the village. Their ashes are spread across an ancestral tree, which Mark
pisses on. He is scolded by Ulf (Henrik Norlen), who actually breaks down sobbing at the act. Mark is then told the
significance of the tree, but he has a callous reaction over it. Elsewhere, Christian and Josh are told that they are allowed to
collaborate on their thesis, on the condition that they omit the actual names and location of the Harga. The two agree.
Christian also asks about the village’s mating rituals, inquiring as to whether incest was typical there, and he is told that
incest isn’t necessarily frowned upon, but outsiders are usually brought in to procreate with the villagers. A feast is then held,
where Mark notices Ulf is staring daggers in his direction. Dani also overhears that Connie was taken to the station by one of
the villagers. Mark is then taken away by a female villager, and the others never see him again.
Later that night, Josh sneaks into the room where Ruben’s book of paintings is kept. He is interrupted by who he thinks is
Mark before he gets bludgeoned over the head. We then see that the figure is actually a villager wearing Mark’s face. Josh is
then dragged away.
The next morning, Dani, Christian, and Pelle are told that Ruben’s book has gone missing, and Josh and Mark disappearing
looks suspicious. Afterwards, Dani joins the women in the village in a competition where they dance around a maypole
before each woman is eliminated. After taking a drug, Dani finds herself being able to speak in Swedish with the other
women. Dani is the last one standing, and she is crowned the May Queen. At the same time, Christian is given a drink that
induces a trip. He is lured and taken to take Maja’s virginity. He has sex with her while the other elder females stand nude
around them and mimic Maja’s moaning. After Dani is crowned May Queen, she watches Christian having sex with Maja
through a hole in the door, which causes Dani to have a breakdown. She goes to cry, and the other women join her,
sympathetically crying loudly with her. After climaxing, a mortified Christian runs out to try and find Dani, but he ends up
discovering Josh’s leg buried in the dirt, as well as Simon’s mutilated corpse being used as a blood eagle. Moments later,
he is found and knocked out when a villager blows powder in his face.
The end of the ritual draws near, and the elders bring the drugged Christian, along with Ingemar, before Dani, as she is
supposed to choose someone for a sacrifice. As per tradition, nine people are to be sacrificed. This includes the two elders,




four outsiders, two living volunteers, and one chosen by Dani. After all that she has gone through, she picks Christian.
The men in the village take a fully grown bear and disembowel it so they can place Christian inside the bear’s corpse. They
bring him, Ingemar, and the corpses of Simon, Connie, Josh, and Mark to the golden teepee, which is then set on fire. Unable
to move or speak, Christian succumbs to his fate while only being able to wheeze in pain, while Ingemar screams in terror.
The villagers mimic the screams, while Dani appears to breakdown from what is happening again. However, as she
continues to watch the teepee go up in flames, and hears the unified wailing of the villagers, a demented smile begins to form
on her face.
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A college student named Dani experiences a horrible tragedy when her sister kills herself and their parents. She receives
consolation from her distant boyfriend Christian. A while later, they are invited to join Christian's friends for a trip to Sweden
where they will travel to the commune where Christian's friend Pelle grew up. The basis of the trip is a midsommar
celebration that supposedly occurs every 90 years.
While there, the group meets Pelle's brother Ingemar, as well as an English couple, Simon and Connie. Although things seem
to be nothing more than a cultural learning experience, it becomes horrifying when they witness two elders jump to their
deaths for a ritual. Simon and Connie try leaving after this, but they instead disappear, and the villagers make it seem like
they left safely. Christian's friends Josh and Mark are also killed after the former takes pictures of the commune's book of
paintings that provide a basis for their rituals, while the latter urinated on an ancestral tree.
Dani slowly adjusts to the commune's customs, and is later crowned May Queen after winning a maypole dancing
competition. However, she witnesses Christian taking the virginity of a village girl named Maja. Dani breaks down at the sight
of it, but the other women in the village mimic her cries, appearing sympathetic to her.
At the end of the celebration, Dani must choose a sacrifice for the final ritual. She chooses Christian, who is drugged and
paralyzed before being put into a bear suit, and he is later burned to death alongside Ingemar and the corpses of his friends.
Dani has all but lost her sanity, and she smiles as her boyfriend burns inside a teepee.




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