Dani suffers unimaginable trauma in Ari Aster’s Midsommar. The sudden murder/suicide of her parents and sister. Terrifying. Unstoppable. Unthinkable. She’s now an orphan. A trauma that brings such terrible grief, Dani can’t allow herself to feel it …Dani’s vulnerable. Starving. Open prey to being seduced into a place where she seems wanted, but not really for herself. AND. Where she lands …

“I don’t know how to fucking be here without you?” That’s the deep, lonely, grief-stricken cry of Roman in James Sweeney’s 2025 film, Twinless, after losing his identical twin, Rocky: “I don’t know …