from https://letterboxd.com/ceecide/film/smile-2022/ at 5:29 am on October 22, 2024
This review may contain spoilers.
call me crazy but i think this movie has something to do with trauma? maybe? or am i reading too much into it?
the movie started off strong, good scare, crazyyy good soundtrack, i thought to myself “how are they gonna start like this and continue for 2 hours? how does it evolve? i hope it isnt the same for 2 hours”, it was the same for 2 hours lol
what a bullshit copout dream ending man fuck that. i think i wouldve preferred if the scary face her ex made was real but then it went away, meaning she beat the monster but she will always have a piece of this trauma with her
the soundtrack is so good though, hardly music at times and just unsettling sounds, kinda reminds me of the Sinister soundtrack with the type of distortion and tape saturation
the jumpscares were good at first, and it worked really well with the cinematography, im pretty sure they filmed the first half to purposefully make you think that a jumpscare was coming but it didnt always come, keeps you on edge and paranoid. i enjoyed that because with most movies i can tell when the jumpscare is about to happen.
that being said, way too many jumpscares. by the 2/3rd point of the movie i was completely desensitized. that long neck car jumpscare was the best one