"Riches to the Conjuror" :
How a Viewpoint Sleight-of-Hand Yields a Wealth of New Perspective on the Destruction of a Model Family
An alternative POV on 2018's Hereditary.
Ari Aster's recent sophomore feature Midsommar has been a big deal in film talk circles recently, but his previous film, last year's Hereditary, is what put him on most people's radar. A film dealing with family and grief (Aster's topics of choice) through the supernatural chicanery of a witchy cult, Hereditary is most definitely when all's said and done, a Bad Moms Movie. What I posit today is that there is a way to view the events depicted in the film that makes it, somehow, an Even Worse Moms Movie.
Also, heads up, I will have to outright RUIN Hereditary for you if you haven't seen it.
