This is very true. I'm glad you said it. Sometimes people do inexplicable things. In the case of Midsommar, we're also looking at herd mentality. Nobody else is freaking out, so even the people for whom this is unfamiliar are being messed up, psychologically speaking, purely by the "It's okay; we're all doing it," groupthink going on.
I do think about this, though, in terms of real life vs. movies. Movies are sometimes unrealistic in ways that are obvious - like giant robots attacking the earth, martial arts masters running up walls, or walking away from massive explosions without said explosion collapsing chest cavities - and sometimes they are unrealistic in ways that make people believe the movie at all.
For example, some of Desmond Doss' exploits in Hacksaw Ridge were actually toned *down* because the filmmakers didn't think we'd believe the real thing (I know some other elements were heightened for drama - it's not a very accurate movie). In the case of Midsommar, even though this could happen - as you've pointed out and I've agreed - for some people, it just looks like stupid characters. Sometimes filmmakers do or should make things less realistic to make a movie believable. I still enjoyed Midsommar, but I acknowledge that there are circumstances where I might get taken out of a movie because of an "unrealistic" element that is actually true.
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