me when i enjoy horror media that has anything to do with smiles:
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has anyone else watched the movie "Smile"? i probably did it three times for sure, i like the atmosphere so much!! and then there’s AU with the shigaraki's family. in this au yoichi is a psychologist for tomura. (censored what's left of yoichi's pet, his ferret)
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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.
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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.
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I saw the Smile movie, which is basically like It Follows, spoiler warning.
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Anyway, so the plot is that there's a demon curse where someone kills themselves in front of you, and then you get the curse, and then you'll kill yourself in front of someone else, thus spreading it to another witness right?
But the solution is, you can kill someone else, in front of a witness, and then they'll get the curse instead and you can live.
But obviously, if there's a witness to your murder, you'll go to jail, right?
So that's the whole thing, right, would you kill someone else and doom yourself to life in prison or accept a violent death at the hands of the entity?
Except.
As soon as the movie ended, I turned to my friend in the theater.
The last person to get the curse was a cop.
I said, "ok but he's a cop. He can get away with killing someone in front of witnesses."
And then we both died laughing.
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