Why does smiling happen

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We soon learn that the Commune leader has decided that he can mate with Maja, the red-head who kept making eyes at him. The whole mating ritual is very intense and very strange. The Harga mate with outsiders as incest is still taboo within the commune, though they can be paired with cousins. We also learn that inbreeding is done deliberately to create the Oracle. Josh says their good looks probably come from the Vikings who dragged the best women from the lands they plundered back home.

The ending is nigh. While Dani is led away to get on with blessing the crops, Christian is led away following a trail of flower petals — sort of a horror version of the yellow brick road. Christian is dressed in a robe and given more drugs — the Harga love their drugs — and is taken to mate with Maja. The doors to the barn open to reveal Maja completely naked surrounded by a dozen women singing and chanting, all naked.

Things get very, very weird as their noises match Maja as she and Christian get it on. Christian finishes up with Maja and runs out, naked still, but makes his way to the chicken coop where he finds a body strung up. Now the fertility rituals have been completed the Harga announce that the year-old event has come to its culmination, but nine people have to die. Four of their own will be sacrificed alongside four outsiders — Mark, Simon, Connie and Josh — and one selected by the May Queen, Dani.

The twist is Dani has to choose between a randomly selected Harga they use a rune style bingo machine or Christian. Aster cuts to an elder showing the young boys have to take the intestines out of a bear before they put Christian inside it — Dani chose him. Dani also has several plants in contrast to the rain and snow outside.

The tale talks about an innocent girl who walks through a forest, meets a bear, kisses his nose and calls him a poor little bear. If we look at everything in her apartment in the same way, it appears that Dani was always meant to end up May Queen.

The tapestry we see after Simon points out the bear in the cage foreshadows the fertility ritual and the paintings in the barn they all sleep in foreshadow how they all meet their end. Aster has talked about how Midsommar can be seen as a fairytale, he also calls it a folk horror film. The plot is simple, outsiders visit a new place and via pagan rituals are killed off. Laughter and smiling are complex behaviors that have prompted a lot of research.

Both smiling and laughing have been studied extensively for centuries. French scientist Guillaume Duchenne was a French neurologist who studied laughter and smiling in the s, and he found that two facial muscles are engaged during smiling. One is the zygomatic major which controls the corners of our mouth. We can activate this muscle when we want. The other is the orbicularis oculi, which controls the area around our eyes. That means, only with a genuine laugh or smile, what has now been dubbed a Duchenne smile, are both our mouth and eyes engaged.

Harry Witchel conducted research that suggests smiling is driven less by an inner cheerfulness and instead is a social cue based on engagement. The study Dr. Witchel performed consisted of participants completing a quiz on a computer.

He found that interaction with the computer caused participants to smile and, surprisingly, they were more likely to smile when they answered incorrectly. The multitude of research done suggests that we probably smile out of true happiness and out of social necessity. When it comes to laughter, there are two types: social and involuntary. Like smiling, laughter can be the product of social interaction or bubble up all on its own.

Social laughter, on the other hand, is a controlled part of interactions. Read on to find out more about how laughter and smiling positively impact your life. We understand them. The physical and psychological benefits of laughter and smiling are plentiful.

Research shows that those who consciously or subconsciously smile more live better and longer. Research shows there are benefits to smiling at others.