[Week 8] The unknown spirit and the aesthetic of goriness
Ari Aster might be the type of director that I like. His film Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019) both give me thrill at some point. I personally prefer the story of Midsommar better than Hereditary due to the less pressure of the story developing and the more aseptically more beautiful bloody scene. However, since the film Hereditary can create such a extreme unpleasant watching experience, it means this film has something special on it since it could create strong emotion to the audience. The suspension of the plot creates in the film and all the unexpected and suspicious moves the characters take are all being revealed in the end. I am not a fan of the cult culture theme film, but it is definitely considerable to dig into the cult people's mind to see what they are thinking when they make their moves. The blurriness of human's inner thought and the existence of a higher dimension spiritual life are shown in Ari Aster's films. Hereditary is about invisible hyperph...
