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Smile 2 Cutdown

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Mackenzie

I'm loving the Sixth Sense hype in the intro lol!! 😄 One of my favorites!

Jaydelle

I’ve been thinking about when things stop being reliable, and I lean toward the idea that the major turning point is after Skye meets Morris at the club. Up until then, the entity is clearly messing with her, but she still seems to have some connection to reality and possibly a way out. Morris gives her a plan, which means she’s getting dangerously close to interrupting the cycle. After that, it feels like the entity starts accelerating everything. The hallucinations become more aggressive, her sense of time becomes harder to trust, and the movie makes it increasingly difficult to know whether we’re seeing real events or the entity trapping her inside a false version of reality. So I don’t think there’s one clean “nothing is real anymore” switch, but the club meeting feels like the point where the entity realizes it needs to fully break her before she can stop it.

Milanush K.

That's one of my favorite movies and I've seen many horror movies in my lifetime. Popular theory is that everything that happens after scene with her dancers in her apartment was not real. She just blacked out and was kinda on autopilot until the tour started.

Jaz

I think you hit the nail on the head ! Bc when I first watched it I thought Morris was another hallucination the entity created but that didn’t make sense once he was telling Skye about how to essentially “kill” the entity so he had to be real. In my opinion your theory is really solid and makes the most logical sense.

Sam

I have the same scar as Skye on my stomach and I used to feel insecure about it showing through my shirt, but now I have more of a ‘yo I’m a survivor’ type attitude about it I love this movie and agree with you guys that it was much scarier than the first one. Also agree that Naomi Scott was excellent in this role! I wish she had been given an award or had just gotten more praise for her performance in general. The songs are bangers. I listen to “New Brain” quite often lol (it’s the one playing when she was at her dance rehearsal)

Milanush K.

I feel like when her dancers surround her in the apartment scene is the moment when entity overtook and kind of neutralized her. We see that one dancer gets inside her, like in the end of first Smile with Rose. But at this point it's too early for the entity to make Riley kill herself, because it says later that "I waited for you so long". Entity needed a public figure to inflict trauma onto many people in one go and apparently waited for someone like Riley to latch on to. So it traps her in false reality until the start of the show. At least that's how I interpreted it.

Jaz

I see what you’re saying and that makes sense too bc when Morris leaves her in the freezer we never see him again and from the freezer she is transported on stage to sing in front of a crowd. So the entity could’ve presented a false reality like you said giving her hope that she could actually “kill” the entity but in reality the entity took her over entirely. Also, since we’re on the topic of the entity wanting to “infect” tons of people at once & we know the entity targets people who struggle with mental health issues or went through trauma. Does that mean some people in the crowd (and ppl who watched the videos online that were posted of what happened) who don’t have trauma or struggle with mental health issues won’t be infected ?

Jaydelle

Yup! That's the part I forgot to include in my comment, but, yes, I agree, this is when the entity fully takes control.

Milanush K.

I think so. Seems like in order to "infect" the victim entity needs prior trauma. In cases of Riley and Rose, at least. In case of Joel I'm not sure. He probably seen some traumatic stuff in his line of work. I guess we need to wait for Smile 3.

Sam

Mine goes out to the sides instead of straight down but very similar

Arthur Fields

32:20 That was Bly Manor, Corey, not Hill House. But yes, good catch.

Arthur Fields

32:51 It was weird that Sky's mom didn't acknowledge Gemma's presence in the room. Mom had urged Sky to make amends with Gemma. She should have shown happiness that Gemma was back in Sky's life. That might have been an early clue that Gemma wasn't really there. That scene where the dancers attacked her was like a creepy music video, like Michael Jackson's Thriller.

TØP44

So, I love this movie way more than the first. My thoughts are that this was the entities plan all along, to get tons of people infected at once, basically take over the world maybe? So using Skye, which is why it said it had been waiting for her for a long time, it infects thousands, hundreds of thousands? I don't know how many people were in the crowd, but either way....I have been dying to know what they are gonna do with Smile 3. It feels like it should go apocalyptic and if it doesn't I think i'll be disappointed.