Midsommar director Ari Aster and his team clearly wanted to use certain runic symbols as foreshadowing or to give certain scenes in the movie a deeper, secretive meaning. Here are some of the ...

Here are all of the symbols and hidden references in the movie, and how they relate to its shocking ending. Warning: Spoilers ahead. First of all, while "Midsommar" quickly turns into a cultish ...

Midsommar is full of symbols relating to Norse mythology, runes, and the cyclicality of life. The movie also deals with concepts such as day and night, sleep and wakefulness, and how the past ...

Ari Aster's latest film Midsommar is to bad relationships as ... They also offer the final choice of sacrifice to their May Queen — a symbol of female virility, fertility, and rebirth.

"Rueben in Midsommar is a very important character. He's important more as a symbol, as an idea, than he is even as a character. There are politics woven into the film and Reuben is about as close ...

Among the most interesting reveals is the significance of the bear in Midsommar. “The bear is a very important symbol in Norse mythology and in Scandinavian folklore. It was loaded in all of the ...

Even on the first watch of Midsommar, the introduction of the bear ... But exactly what the bear represents as a symbol is up to interpretation. Director Ari Aster has added a bit more detail ...

Few films in the past decade have had such polarizing endings as Midsommar. Ari Aster’s highly ... Adorned with flowers, Dani is a symbol of life-giving power and fertility, qualities valued ...

He spoke about what pulls him toward his films’ specific subject matter, the amount of research that went into “Midsommar” and ... to joke about as a phallic symbol, because it is.