![]() ![]() ![]() Sam wins Olivia’s trust with a drink and conversation and gets her to convince the group to go to the church and play Truth or Dare, and they do. The game is not transferable, it is only more inclusive. Little does he know that it doesn’t work that way. Sam is hanging in Mexico as Carter looking to lure a group to that church to transfer the game to them. To celebrate their last year in college, they go off to Mexico. Olivia never gets a chance to tell Markie that she might have been the reason for the dad’s suicide. He eventually kisses Olivia who stops him and asks him to go die. Initially, they have a chilled out conversation and a couple of drinks. One day, Olivia happens to go to Markie’s place and runs into her father. All of the friends die but for Sam and Giselle. The way they play is by enforcing a Dare to follow after two Truths. Unknowingly, the group plays a harmless Truth or Dare game, and Calux possesses it. Once such item Sam ends up breaking is the urn. Decades later, Sam, Giselle, and a group of friends decide to hang out in the church and knock stuff around. Calux stayed contained because of this urn. The pastor gets his demonic spanking, and over time, the church is abandoned. One of the sisters decided to teach him a lesson and summoned Calux by cutting her tongue out and sealing it in a small urn. A long time back there was a church, and it had a pastor who was molesting the nuns. Okay, so apparently this demon, Calux, can possess people and ‘ideas’. Giselle Hammond (Aurora Perrineau): A survivor from the previous group Why is the game possessed? He’s a survivor from the previous group who play the game Sam (Landon Liboiron): Goes by the fake name of Carter and is the one who releases the demon by mistake. Ronnie (Sam Lerner): A guy whom the ‘group of friends’ thinks is a douchebag Penelope Amari (Sophia Ali): Tyson’s girlfriend Tyson Curran (Nolan Gerard Funk): A medical student who gives out fake prescriptions Lucas Moreno (Tyler Posey): Markie’s boyfriend and an integral part of an irrelevant love triangle between Olivia and Markieīrad Chang (Hayden Szeto): The gay dude who’s not told his dad yet Markie Cameron (Violett Beane): Olivia’s best friend Olivia Barron (Lucy Hale): That girl from Pretty Little Liars plays the lead college student The entity is a metaphor for generational trauma - the characters literally note “ this thing feeds on trauma” at one point - so it makes sense that it is not easily exorcised or explained and that Smile never says the monster can be beaten by willpower alone.In short, the film tells us what will happen if the fate of the entire planet was left in the hands of douchebags. It is brutally hopeless, but it makes sense in the context of Smile’s story. The entity tricks Rose, overpowers her, climbs inside her, and, once it controls her movements, plasters that signature creepy smile on her face and sets her alight in front of Joel. In contrast, Smile ends with an unambiguous victory for the villain. Even The Ring features an ending where the heroine manages to overpower the antagonist at least temporarily and secure safety for herself and her son. Truth or Dare features a bleaker ending, but it is also a sillier, campier style of horror movie overall. It Follows does present a disquieting metaphor for STIs and sexual trauma, but it also features a surprisingly hopeful ending wherein the heroine survives and her friends support her through everything. Smile, even more than It Follows, Truth or Dare, and The Ring, is a relentlessly bleak movie. The creature takes the likeness of Rose's loved ones and can appear anywhere, but unlike the teen heroes of It, Smile’s Rose has no one willing to listen to her story and help her, except for Joel, a well-meaning ex-boyfriend who provides some support but proves helpless at crucial junctures. ![]() ![]() Similar to the form-changing Pennywise of Stephen King's It, the entity in Smile can shape-shift. Rose is dismissed wherever she turns and finds that her work as a psychiatric doctor doesn’t make her any less susceptible to Smile’s chilling villain. Sosie Bacon gives a terrific performance as the harried, constantly tense Rose, who was already overworked and undervalued before Smile’s monstrous entity sought her out and who has no one to turn to when she is faced with mortal peril. Smile’s curse is undeniably gruesome, yes, but the problem that the heroine faces is that even she - a mental health professional with a stable home life, a committed partner, and supportive colleagues - can’t find any support or help when the curse singles her out. ![]()
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