Joys Known Only to the Insane

Joys Known Only to the Insane

Isn’t the role of the artist to put your sickness in other people?—Ari Aster Contains spoilers for Hereditary and Midsommar.Hereditary and the Horrible, Hopeless God Machine“Life is suffering,” says 38-year-old American filmmaker Ari Aster, who is given to cliché, and likes to make light of the darkness. After rising to prominence in the 2010s with his first two feature horror films, Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019), and solidifying his st…