Rose Cotter works in a psychiatric emergency room and one day encounters a seemingly typical patient–a student who witnessed the suicide of a teacher a few days ago. The girl, in an hysterical state, claims to be sane and being persecuted by some malevolent entity. Afterwards, she slits her own throat with a frightening smile. From then on, Rose begins to see the smiling suicide in the most inappropriate places, and her life gradually falls apart.
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The year 2022 never fails to provide pictures of various horrors. Relying on heavy atmosphere and spectacular screamers, The Smile gives us one of the most suspenseful movies of the year. If you like The Ring and It Follows, then feel free to watch this horror film as well.
The film is based on the idea that psychological trauma is passed from person to person and completely consumes their souls. And the sinister smile has simply become the hallmark of this cycle of evil.
Psychiatrist Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) learns of some dark evil after her new patient’s bloody suicide, and then discovers she must be the next victim. Her pleas to those around her are not understood. At the same time, the shock suffered by the protagonist becomes the trigger for the exacerbation of attacks of unusually vivid memories of the severe psychological trauma she suffered as a child. In an atmosphere of constant nervous tension, nightmares and insomnia, Rose tries to learn about the origins of the mysterious entity that terrifies her and feeds on the souls of her victims. In a sense, the threat to her life from a very real dark evil is an allegory of the girl’s post-traumatic stress disorder. Can this monster be defeated, and can childhood psychological trauma be overcome? To most narratives that propel a traumatized heroine to success, this film responds with a much harsher plot. What if you can never truly deal with trauma, no matter how hard you try? What if some people are doomed to die from it? As difficult as the answers to these questions are, the ending of the film was, in my opinion, the right choice.
This movie could not have been made without the good acting of Sosie Bacon, previously known only for her roles in TV series. She is constantly in the frame throughout the film and shows a woman in a desperate mental state quite believably. Finally, I would like to say that I was satisfied with the pace of the film, almost two hours fly by unnoticed.
Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (76.9 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Original aspect ratio: 2.00:1
Audio
English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
German: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
French(Canada): Dolby Digital 5.1
Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles
English SDH, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Turkish.
