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there-goes-my-sanity · 2 years

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Saw Smile and I have....thoughts.

****SPOILERS BELOW****

The entire concept of a demon (curse?) Making you kill yourself is not my cup of tea, but that's just a personal gripe.

My biggest problem was I feel like they shifted the story halfway through. Hear me out:

It starts out with Rose and her trauma. She insists on not using words like crazy or insane, for herself or her patients. It feels very much like we are going to respect mentally ill people (as much as you can in the horror genre at least)

And then when Rose realizes she's cursed that respect just goes out the window? They start using the same terminology she shunned earlier to describe her actions. Her actions become more and more disturbed and no one helps her even those that know her trauma.

Then in the final act, when she accepts and realizes her trauma. When she forgives herself (everything in the movie so far has shown that should you do that the curse will end) nothing happens. She still kills herself and nothing is fixed.

I think horror works because usually the bad thing is defeated in the end. You get the closure to leave the theater feeling better than you entered.

Smile doesn't do that. It just says you have trauma, it will consume you, and there's no fixing it.

I'm not sure that made any sense. I just needed to vent.

#smile 2022 #smile movie #horror #movies #smile 2022 spoilers

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therosejamjournal · 1 year

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thinking about how smile (2022) is every traumatised person's worst nightmare. how the message clearly says "your trauma will always win and no matter what you do, you'll swallow it and it'll inhabit your skin forever." how, even if the protagonist had defeated the monster, she would have still lost - the intergenerational trauma has already spread its insidious wings and would survive in the mind of her sister's child. how traumatised people are so often told to just 'suck it up and smile through the pain,' how laughter is the best medicine until it isn't. how misery loves company. and how sometimes healing comes too late too little - you've let the beast grow too strong, it became an intrinsic part of you, your identity.

#the movie was by no means perfect and I know a lot of ppl found it cheesy and stupid #I agree that it could have been improved so easily by e.g. never showing the monster fully instead of that Michael jackson-esque face #the morale of the film was also super grim and demotivating #but imo if analysed as 'the worst case scenario' it holds its ground #And as a somewhat ✨️traumatised✨️ girlie I cannot imagine a scarier situation as when my trauma wins #I'm normally rly good with horror and I make fun of it easily #But there was smth about this one that made me paranoid #I'm still thinking about it even tho I saw it months ago #don't even get me started on the credits agakahsg #that was the paranoia cherry on top #anyways this has nothing to do w fantasy but I had these thoughts in my head for so long #I thought I'd share in case anyone felt similar (if ppl are still watching that movie lmao)#Smile 2022 #Smile movie #horror film #Smile 2022 spoilers #Movies #🌹

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residents-of-the-darkforest · 1 year

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I think the thing that resonates most with me about Smile is the fact that the lead character literally did EVERYTHING she could and it STILL DIDN’T WORK

she heard she had to kill someone else to survive? she tried that. It was a dream / possible illusion by the monster.

She hears that the monster is passed on by witnesses to death? Isolate herself so that no one can see her die. But that was an illusion too to stall her long enough for a witness to arrive.

Linkin Park said it best. She tried so hard, and in the end it didn’t really matter.

#sorry couldn't resist that last part #smile #2022 smile #smile 2022 #smile movie #smile horror movie #smile horror #horror #horror movie #smile spoilers #smile 2022 spoilers #notdf

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angiethewitch · 1 year

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I watched Smile last night and I mostly have good things to say about it but honestly the ending really screwed it up for me. this movie was about trauma and guilt and mental illness and the ending was so fucking bleak. I like bleak endings sometimes but for a movie about mental illness it was kinda devastating. it was literally "hey so there's no overcoming mental illness, everyone around you thinks you're nuts, no matter how hard you fight you'll always end up succumbing to it and you'll die. the end!" which was so jarring and sad.

I do recommend this movie but if youre at all sensitive to topics of suicide or mental illness, watch with caution. it was very hard hitting and ill probably discuss how I related to it another time, but I had to take breaks because it was creepy how well I could relate to it. I also suggest not watching it alone, I watched it with my husband and during the breaks I talked about how it was affecting me.

I love horror, I love picking apart horror, I love discussing horror, I love analysing horror, but this movie is probably one I won't watch again. I rarely get triggered by movies unless something explicitly upsetting happens or its a personal trigger, but the ending of this movie genuinely triggered me.

#angie talks #smile 2022 #smile 2022 spoilers #horror

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transvampireboyfriend · 2 years

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“Lucky ...is he?“

NOPE (2022)

#THEE final girl #i hope he's getting apples and treats and whatever a horse could possibly want <3 #nope 2022 #nopeedit #nope film #oj haywood #jupe park #ricky jupe park #nope spoilers #horrorgifs #moviegifs #lucky #lucky nope #nope lucky #lucky the horse #unrelated the way oj smiles in that first gif drives me INSANE #lazedits

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teeterarting · 2 years

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You're still you

#pmd #pokemon mystery dungeon #explorers of sky #pmd explorers of sky #eevee #grovyle #pokemon #pkmnart #pmd eos #Mocha eevee #Team Sundial #what if. what if Hero used to do something in the future that they kept doing in the past.#in this case Mocha smiles in a specific Mocha-way #nd Grovyle recognizes it #i cant get this line out of my head #pmd eos spoilers #Teeter art #2022 #spoilers

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ethan-nestor-owns-my-heart · 1 year

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The carpenter sisters

Scream VI vs Scream (2022)

#scream #jenna ortega #scream vi #tara carpenter #melissa barrera #sam carpenter #scream 6 #carpenter sisters #Tara carpenter protection squad #Anna and Elsa in a different font #Sam #Tara #scream 5 #potential scream spoilers #scream 2022 #scream cast #scream screenshot #picture #notice how Sam only smiles like that with Tara

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chrlie-cox · 1 year

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TREASON 2022 Episode 4 - before long, their hiding place is discovered — and blood is spilled

#charlie cox #adam lawrence #treason #treason 2022 #charliecoxedit #charliecoxgifs #cinematv #netflixedit #netflixgifs #filmedit #filmtvdaily #filmgifs #moviegifs #treason spoilers #cc:gifs #his eye smile lines 🥰

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booasaur · 2 years

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Crush (2022)

#crushedit #crush hulu #crush 2022 #paige evans #aj campos #rowan blanchard #auli'i cravalho #crush spoilers #aj x paige #femslash related stuff #that smile at the end #must be tough to have realized years ago you're bisexual but only recently discovering you're morosexual too #this whole convo is her trying to put on a tough front and not break at what a doofus paige is #she really came out years ago and then never kissed or hooked up with anyone because she was pining after paige?#oh aj #unrelated to this gifset but right before paige says mentor-protege but she pronounces it like prodigy #she's wrong right #or have I been pronouncing protege wrong this whole time

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carriewhiteislove · 2 years

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nah i cant with this movie actually. im so sorry but like i cant. spoilers for Smile below this

the fucking CAT scene holy shit??? she really genuinely thought she was giving her NEPHEW a TOY TRAIN. she thought this was going to be a joyous happy occasion AND SHE ENDED UP WRAPPING HER DEAD FUCKING CAT. she didn’t know he was dead. this poor fucking woman didn’t know her fucking cat was even DEAD and she wrapped his corpse and gifted it to a SEVEN YEAR OLD and that poor kid lifted the corpse of Mustache, the cat, out of a nicely wrapped box and

i can’t

#smile 2022 #smile spoilers #tw animal suffering #tw animal harm #sry. this scene fucked me UP.#amile movie #like woah #holy shit

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summerstrash · 1 year

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in which alex is once again the one to understand maddie, explicitly because they're "the same," and all scott can respond with is alarm that alex is wearing maddie's clothes again

truly, the most cishet of scenes

panels from Dark Web: X-Men #1 (writer Zeb Wells, art by Rod Reis, letters by Cory Petit)

#wednesday spoilers #alex summers #scott summers #havok #cyclops #dark web 2022 #alex summers is either a gay man or a transfemme and that is that on that #also god smiles on me by finally giving me a rod reis goblin prince iteration #look at that adorable little cape!

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mx-chaz · 2 years

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I'M STILL EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT 😭🥺❤️🥺😭 WE GOT ANAKIN SKYWALKER IN 2022 🥺😭 THANK YOU HAYDEN 🥺❤️❤️

BONUS:

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speaching · 2 years

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Went to go see Smile yesterday...it sucked

Wouldn't recommend watching it unless you leave right after the house fire

Spoilers

This is basically gonna be the plot...so...yeah

So there's this creature, curse, thing, and it latches on to people through their trauma with death. If someone how has the "curse" kills themselves or someone else and you witness it, it goes to you and they're free. (The curse basically possesses them to make the infected person pass it on)

Main character decides to go to her childhood home away from everyone to survive the week in hopes it'll go away if she lives longer than anyone infected in the past so far. She faces her trauma and lights the monster on fire, killing it, and burning her childhood home down

✨️Defeating her trauma✨️

(Great way to end it! Leave it there! It's a good ending to a good movie and it opens up a conversation about getting through your trauma irl! But we can't have nice things here)

She drives to her friends house and asks to sleep off the rough 5(?) Days she's had

Plot twist!

Oh no! He's the monster and chases her. She runs through the door and Ah!! She's infront of her childhood home, and it's perfectly fine. She never left!

Her friend drives up and she runs back inside to not pass it to him.

He breaks the door down and the cycle continues *jazz hands*

I hate when movies do this so much! It was a good movie, with a good message and ending, but they ruined it because they want to possibility for a sequel!

They even have a sequel possibility in the story! Something something "every few years the cycle starts again". There, perfect, give her her happy ending and make your sequel elsewhere a few years later!

Also the amount of gore had no purpose

"But it's a horror movie"

Yeah, but we didn't need to see the body of the guy who bludgeoned himself 20 minutes later when we already knew it happened! You can have gore and it all still be relatively plot relevant! You can have horror movies with a happy ending!

This wasn't a scary movie. It was gory but it wasn't scary. It was alright until the end then it sucked.

Anyway, rant over. Watch it or don't. I'd just suggest leaving early, it's a better story.

#i watched it yesterday and im still so pissed about it #needed to rant aboht the missed potential somehow hhhh #best post?#no #but i just needed to put this somewhere #i love movies but sometimes i really hate them #Smile #horror movie #smile 2022 #smile spoilers #movie rant #movie spoilers #Speachs rants #Also! the big bad looked stupid #think a goofier looking Momo Challenge design

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artianaiolanthe · 1 year

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I think I parsed it out, Spoilers for Smile 2022

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I was trying to think about it by comparing Smile to Hereditary. On the surface, both end bleakly with the "evil" entity winning, in a cycle the characters were helpless to stop.

But Hereditary feels almost more respectful of the trauma if that makes sense? Annie and Peter were allowed to feel their feelings in all the ugliness that came with them and while they ultimately succumb to powers beyond their control, the movie's built up to it in a way that ties more neatly together. The Grahams were pawns in Paimon and the Cult's game, as malleable as Annie's diagrams. And Annie's trauma, even while manipulated by Joan, never felt disregarded. Even with her husband giving up with her towards the end he heard her out, intended on getting her help after he could help his son, and while there's some dismissiveness you can see that all these characters have been pushed past their breaking points and seeing them shatter is horrifying but cathartic in a horrible way. Especially watching it back again and being able to catch all the little nudges that pushed them to this.

With Smile... It's hollow. The lore isn't as rich, the respect it starts with starts to fray as Rose insists she's not crazy like her patient, she's cursed and being haunted and it's better than them surely she can fix it. The decisions she makes hardly even start as rational even before she starts unraveling from paranoia and sleep deprivation. There's nothing you want to go back to catch in a second viewing because the movie is almost bloated with jump scares and musical cues that keep you as on edge as Rose is. And then you get to the fakeout ending and even if you actually believed that would be it, something isn't right, suspension of disbelief be damned it just didn't feel like she could put things behind her so easily and turn a page.

Then the actual ending. The same sense of failure as hereditary but instead of feeling tragically inevitable it just feels frustrating because the narrative felt like it had already diverted. Even the monster design won't warrant a rewatch because nothing really alluded to it. Again for comparison's sake you could see the monster from The Ritual in glimpses, but this wasn't quite Out Of Nowhere but it didn't mesh well.

One thing I will give it is for all the comparisons to It Follows and Truth or Dare at least it went in full throttle to the end.

I'd give the movie a 6/10 I guess. It loses a point for it's contradictory theme and plot and it loses the other three for that poor fucking cat.

#iole rambles #smile 2022 #smile spoilers #hereditary 2018 #rose cotter #annie graham #peter graham

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dopecine · 1 year

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