Title | : | How Midsommar Brainwashes You |
Duration | : | 27:31 |
Viewed | : | 2,375,319 |
Published | : | 23-05-2020 |
Source | : | Youtube |
The ecstasy of indoctrination.
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Featuring the Voices of Anthony Backman, Phoebe Kuhlman, Tim Kopacz, Guy Picot, Bruno Oliver, Marian Gonzalez, Sarah Cortez, David Miller, Tyler Wellman, Jaime Andrews, Jessie Bias, Kellen Crager, Jason Matthis
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Shout out to Jacob Geller and In Praise of Shadows, whose tone and aesthetics helped to give me something to aspire to.
SOURCES
Adam Chitwood, ‘Midsommar’ Ending Explained: We’re All in This Together
https://collider.com/midsommar-ending...
Alexandra Stein, How Totalism Works
https://www.academia.edu/33605474/How...
Alissa Wilkinson, Ari Aster on his new film Midsommar: “I keep telling people I want it to be confusing”
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/7/2/...
Britt Hayes, Midsommar Takes A Cathartic Trip From Trauma To Acceptance
https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/07/...
Carly Lane, How Midsommar Illustrates The Catharsis Of Expressing Emotion
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/how-mid...
CIY schedule
https://new.ciy.com/move/dates-locati...
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
Danielle Ryan, ‘Midsommar’: Ari Aster and Florence Pugh’s Complex, Climactic Catharsis
https://www.slashfilm.com/midsommar-c...
Fleur Brown, I grew up in a cult and I can tell you why ‘normal’ people join them
https://www.insider.com/i-grew-up-in-...
George Write, Nxivm: ‘Why I joined a cult - and how I left’
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47900242
Glenn Collins, The Psychology of the Cult Experience nytimes.com/1982/03/15/style/the-psychology-of-the-cult-experience.html
Hillary Hoffower and Allana Akhtar, Lonely, burned out, and depressed: The state of millennials’ mental health entering the 2020s
https://www.businessinsider.com/mille...
J. Gordon Melton, The Rise of the Study of New Religions
https://www.cesnur.org/testi/bryn/br_...
Karen Han, Is the cult in Midsommar real?
https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/5/2068...
Robert Jay Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
Mark Olsen, ‘Midsommar’ explained: The filmmakers unpack the sex, reituals and shocking ending
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment...
Meagan Navarro, Midsommar Director Ari Aster on Hidden Clues and the Debate Surrounding the Controversial Ending
https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/0...
Minda Zetlin, Millennials Are the Loneliest Generation, A Survey Shows
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/mill...
Now It’s Dark, Midsommar: How Ari Aster Unsettles You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6lR4...
Ryan Hollinger, Why Midsommar Broke Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Por7t...
Tara Isabella Burton, What is a cult?
https://aeon.co/essays/theres-no-shar...
FOOTAGE FROM
Midsommar
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
THX 1138
Jaws
CIY
Film At Lincoln Center, Ari Aster on Midsommar, Cathartic Endings, the Director's Cut, and His Favorite Films,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPGaP...
4K Relaxation Channel, PHACELIA FLOWERS FIELD Relaxation Video - THANK YOU-video to ALL our subscribers! - FREE DOWNLOAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRVGE...
MUSIC
“All Creatures of Our God And King” by William Henry Draper, played by LiahonaNet at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeugO...
“Banished” by Mark Korven, from The Witch Soundtrack
“Prism” by Tim Hecker, from Virgins
“Prophecy,” “Gassed,” “Halsingland,” and “Fire Temple” by Bobby Krlic, from Midsommar Soundtrack
“Rivers of Sand” by Fennesz, from Venice
“Six Hours To Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold” by The KLF, from Chill Out
“The Mirror Reflecting (Part 1)” by The Haxan Cloak, from Excavation
“Under Stars II” by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, & Roger Eno, from Apollo
“Winter’s Bone” by Kirsten Agresta Copely, from Around the Sun
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