![]() ![]() ![]() Rose Cotter ( Sosie Bacon) throughout “Smile” likes the taste of people who have witnessed someone else dying by suicide-gruesome, painful, bloody suicide, by garden shears and oncoming trains and the shattered fragments of a ceramic vase in a hospital intake room. Specifically, the vague something that dogs Dr. The difference here is that the monster is barely a metaphor at all: The demon, or evil spirit, or whatever it is-the movie is vague on this point-literally feeds on, and is spread by, trauma. And although it comes on the cusp of a new decade, the new Paramount wide-release horror movie "Smile" fits right in with its PTSD-induced kin. When the horror histories of the 2010s are written, the decade will be associated with trauma metaphors the way the ‘80s are with slasher movies. ![]()
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