By Ryan Louis Mantilla
Ari Aster's Midsommar Ending Gets a Different Perspective, Detailed by Star Florence Pugh
Five years after the Ari Aster-directed Midsommar premiered in theaters in 2019, Florence Pugh has offered her “different” interpretation of the folk horror film’s spooky and divisive ending.
This critically acclaimed horror film, which remains one of Aster's most highly regarded films, follows an American couple (Dani (Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor)) who become involved with a mysterious cult during a midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village.
In the film’s final moments, Dani is crowned the May Queen and chooses her boyfriend Christian to die as the village’s sacrifice. Dressed in a floral dress and crown, the final shot showed Dani laughing as Christian — dressed in bearskin — was burned alive.
