Fantastic Fest: Smile Review
Smileis an assortment of ingredients the audience has tasted before. An entity scares its subject continually in unnecessary ways until it eventually (possibly) kills its prey. And the death happens within a week. The main character loses grip on reality and no one believes there is a true source of fear. The tormenter targets victims that have been through trauma (Hello Vecna). Each time said tormenter appears, the world around the main character is dream-like and unreliable like a Freddy Krueger nightmare.
The film which premiered at Fantastic Fest 2022 might sound generic because it possesses familiar aspects but Parker Finn's big-screen debut injects it with freshly executed tension. The lack of originality in Smile'sunnamed adversary will drive some insane. But Finn's ability to maintain a nail-biting sequence moment-to-moment that keeps the movie afloat. With scenes that are both hair-raising and disturbing.
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The film centers around the theme of mental health. Sosie Bacon takes the lead as a doctor who handles patients with mental health issues. It's implied from the beginning that her character Rose has a traumatic past with someone in her youth committing suicide. What can be presumed from the start is her character took on the job for reasons involving her childhood trauma. Bacon invokes a level of sympathy in her performance from the beginning as her character conveys great empathy for those she cares for in the hospital.
Enter a new patient named Laura (Caitlin Stasey) who is fidgety and paranoid. She also exhibits signs of sanity as she speaks more lucidly than other patients we have seen with Rose. Laura is frantic and speaking nervously about something
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