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I kinda wish they pushed the movie more towards a psycho-thriller with horror elements as opposed to a standard horror. Like basically set it up and end it with the audience not knowing if she is actually being haunted or experiencing severe trauma from both watching her mom die and a patient commiting suicide in front of her. I feel the pieces were all there, they just needed to tell the story a little differently
@lukaajlovanovich1606 I think you miss-read my comment 😅. Basically, I was saying I wish they had edited the movie, so it wasn't so obvious that she was being haunted, that you have to figure it out. Basically, like in Shutter Island, how, in the end, it never solidifies whether or not Leo's character is actually a patient or if hes being tricked
See I think making you have to guess if she was haunted or not seems cliche. Like every movie does that "are they crazy or not". I liked the ending && it scared me bc I have alot of trauma && not being able to escape it && passing it on is messed up.
@Starry_Skye22 I get that. Just my personal feelings on it since I personally get more into movies that makes me kinda have to think about what exactly is going on as opposed to it being more spelled out. Just helps me get a little more invested in the character.
Dylan flapping the wide sleeves of his comfort sweater was way too relatable and made me burst out with laughter which scared me cat. Speaking of, everyone who Dylan predicted would die lived and Dylan predicted the cat would live and the cat did not. Dylan has obviously never been wrong before so this was shocking.
When I first saw this movie the hardest part for me was her seeing her cat dead, she cared so much for it even staying up late looking for it to feed it and then later on the sudden shock of seeing it dead that she just hugs it and has a breakdown. Heartbreaking
i saw this movie in theaters with my friend, and i've decided that no one should ever take me to see horror films in public again. i screamed so loud at the laptop jumpscare that the people in front of us laughed at me. i was so embarrassed for the rest of the movie😭
I watched it with my sister and the audience was very funny and we all laughed at each other's reactions to jumpscares. Pretty sure u made the day of those people lol :)
My friend was also laughed at in the theatre for jumping and screaming at one of the scares. Absolutely hilarious. Also don’t worry about it, most people I’ve watched it with have screamed or yelled at some part and I yelled at something and I don’t jump at almost any movie. They are trying to laugh with you not at you
I’d laugh too but not at you! :] people watch horror in theaters for fun because it’s a whole experience. They weren’t teasing you most likely. I’m sure it was just a “got to see human reactions live” sort of a thing
They way dylan watches horror movies is exactly the same way i do. I aint about to calmly sit there and take the trauma, im gonna wiggle around, fidgiet, start a conversation, make funny jokes, and literally do anything else but stay attentive to something that will give me nightmares.
I feel bad for those who just discovered dylan and can't figure out when he's joking and when he's not . Eventually you'll get used to it , like the rest of us
Can we all take a second to appreciate how consistent Dylan is with his weekly uploads while being only 20, setting fashion trends, releasing his book all-while attending such a high ranked college too?!? He’s so responsible and dedicated!
I just gotta be honest the dead cat scene broke me for a minute. I experienced so many emotions at 1 time that I literally stared straight ahead, mouth open, trying to process all of them. Disgust at seeing a dead cat, horror at at the kid opening what he thought was his present to find a dead animal, sadness at the cat dying, pain at the woman grieving her cat, more horror at the situation in general, traumatized at the situation in general, and even more horror at mentally putting myself in her shoes, fear at *my* cat dying (irl)(one of my cats passed away a few weeks ago), as well as anxiety and nausea. It basically made me feel almost every negative emotion all at once.😳😬😅
I hate how they always kill animals in horror movies. One of the reasons I haven't been watching them as much. Don't watch the first few minutes of Untraceable (which I really liked otherwise) or the movie Apt Pupil. And avoid reading John Saul. I read like 3 or 4 books of his in a row that all had pets getting killed. 😭
Yeah, after seeing that, I’m holding my cats extra close tonight. I hate the usage of killing animals in media for this, especially for shock and twists
@@quinnie_here exactly! Like if you’re gonna kill an animal do it off screen and don’t show the dead body for such an extended amount of time, like with kids. Personally, I don’t see animals as equal to children, but they are both defenseless and I’d rather not see either be killed on screen.
@@happyhappyneko oh my gosh!!! The fact the media companies think it’s ok (or cool or edgy or whatever) to show these kinds of things is honestly disturbing. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Confidentiality DOES end when there is a crime. Psychologists and psychiatrists can report things to police if they believe the person is a danger to themselves or others. And if a patient commits suicide, the police investigate and get the patients records. Edit: this movie reminds me of “It Follows”, anyone else see that?
I definitely was reminded of "It follows" while watching this because of the fact that there's a specific way to spread this curse and the main character didn't make it alive eventually.
Actually -- Confidentially/HIPAA exist after death, suicide or not. Cops can't just get mental health records because someone is dead. They needs release authorization from next of kin or a court order (therapist here!).
Dylan should try watching some old japanese horror movies. Those are great at instilling dread and leaving you feel uneasy, they're the best kind of horror movies because they fear doesn't end with a jumpscare, it stays with you even when nothing happens.
@@camishaherringu the original ver of the ring is amazing. The film has little to no blood but is extremely scary. Personally it wasn’t so bad but I could understand why others would find it quite terrifying.
It’s ironic that this movie is about trauma, yet I have very fond memories of it. In my last year of high school, the student committee decided to host a movie night in the school’s auditorium. They held a vote for which movie we’d watch, and Smile got chosen. My friends and I decided to attend. In total we were 7 people in the friend group. A lot of people came, and the vibes were super cozy. Everyone was decked out in pajamas and comfy clothes, there were snacks, even blankets too. I brought my bunny plushie with me. My friends and I sat in the back of the auditorium. The experience was really fun. Since we sat in the back, we had the best view when it came to seeing people’s reactions to the movie. We laughed every time someone screamed or jolted (which happened a lot!), and I even saw a guy crawling behind a group of girls, scaring them shitless. The best part was that we genuinely found the movie terrifying. It feels so fun and validating to be scared shitless when everyone else is also scared shitless. It was hilarious to scream when everyone else screamed. My friend found the movie so scary that she started played Hay Day on her phone to distract herself. I was clinging to my guy friend like a baby koala during the end of the movie. We did find the ending of the movie disappointing, though... Personally, I thought it’d be cliché, but also fitting, if it ended with the demon disappearing because the MC defeated/overcame her trauma. After the movie ended, we went to grab our stuff in the lockers. However, since it was late at night, the hallways were dark and the doors were locked. Which wasn’t really ideal when a) we needed to get to our lockers, which were located behind the doors b) we’d just seen a terrifying horror movie. I think we were stuck in there for 30 minutes before the janitor came and unlocked the doors. The hallways were still dark though so it wasn’t very fun to grab my stuff in my locker when it was pitch black. Overall, I actually found the movie scary, and I rarely find horror movies scary. I think it’s one of the few that’s actually stuck with me. Still disappointed over that lackluster ending, though. Like, I wish the cop guy just closed his eyes or exited the building when he saw that the MC was about to sudoku herself. Overall, it was a very fun night! I graduated a few months ago and I’m going to move away for law school tomorrow. I’m gonna miss my friends.
As a person who dislikes horror movies, I really appreciated how Dylan broke down some of the scares and how they work, made it easier and more enjoyable to watch
When Dylan mentioned that they should have developed her character more it got me thinking about where the best place to put scenes like that would be. Imo they should have had a patient share a traumatic backstory similar to her own that would trigger flashbacks for her so we can see the relationship between her and her mom. Or maybe just the stress from seeing the first girl would trigger flashbacks for her, and then she's just reliving her trauma which causes her to be more withdrawn. So her coworkers take notice and ask if she's ok but then she gets super defensive, which shows more of her personality. I think these two things would really develop her as a main character and would have made the ending all the more fucked up when she dies.
yea like she was getting defensive with ppl but not enough for her to feel like this is part of her personality. her fiance could've said that she's always closing herself off to him and that's why he called her psychiatrist to the house bc he's lost. or even have her dreams at night be the demon making her relive her traumatic childhood or smth
Or better yet, have the patient describe the traumatic experience, but show the flashback as if it was the patient. Dont show the main character as a child at any point, and its only when she reaches the house at the end that its revealed that the flashback was of the main character, not the patient, and it was the story triggering her own memories like you said
I really agree. She had no development at all so I had no empathy for her through this and it made it hard to enjoy the concept imo. Like if we'd know she was apparently abused and that she was distant because of that it would have tied everything together.
The moment Dylan said “it’s always better to be secure” I knew immediately that it was a Nord VPN sponsorship before he even said the next phrase Tell me you’re a troublemaker without telling me you’re a troublemaker 😂
This story should be a video game. Solving the puzzle of what's happening, the main character being the unreliability narrator, then having the boss fight at the end. Would have been so cool.
Movies like this and It Follows disturb me more than other types of horror films. With the movie It Follows, it was so unsettling how that thing would just follow people by walking at a normal pace and showing zero emotion or speaking as well as take the appearance of any random person (but often people closely associated with their target). That’s why I’m glad they chose to have the people smile without any CGI for this movie. The fact that it’s just them smiling in a really eerie manner makes the movie so much more unsettling compared to if they gave them an exaggerated smile using CGI the way they did for that god awful movie Dylan has reacted to before called Truth or Dare (with Lucy Hale).
It Follows still bothers me to this day… I would get so scared coming home in the middle of the night and picturing someone slowly following me until I got in the house. Also the scene with that super tall blonde guy freaks me out.
what bothers me the most is that the main character doesnt handles her situation the way a psycologist/psychiatrist would, i feel like she went from "oh boy im seeing things" to "IM BEING HAUNTED BY ENERGIES. BUT IM NOT CRAZY. ITS NOT A GHOST" was pretty fast, and also it doesnt feel like she uses enough psycology lingo to describe whats happening to her. the actress did a great job tho, even if the script lacked and they always threw away genuine fear for a cheap jumpscare way too much lmao.
I watched this in theaters and the way they set up the movie audio in the theaters made the movie 10x more terrifying that and when people would smile at me after the movie it was genuinely unnerving for a while
The point you had in 23:27 was spot on! What Asian horror masters is the lingering horror, which makes it actually sometimes unbearable! Jumpscare is always a release and when they deny it it's the most horrifying to me! Jumpscare is not horror, it's just a reaction and a release.
It would be so fun to see Dylan react to Pulse or other works by Kurosawa Kiyoshi. I think Dylan would really enjoy slow horrors that just instill fear and dread the whole time rather than have a bunch of jumpscares.
i had a nightmare when i was like 14 where i was in a hospital and everyone i saw in the dream was smiling very widely with no emotion in their eyes while they looked at me and i couldn't scream or even wake up, i felt paralyzed. and when i saw that they made a horror movie so similar to my nightmare from like 10 years ago that still haunted me to this day, i was like nah man im not watching that, ever. but here i am watching it vicariously through dylan our fav 20yo boy.
OMG SAME! I have OCD and one of my intrusive thoughts I struggle with is the fear that if I look in a mirror my own reflection will be smiling at me like that. I've had nightmares about it since I was little, and I told myself I wouldn't watch this movie or truth or dare, but I've watched both of dylan's commentaries 😂 His jokes make it less anxiety-inducing.
Hi! A professional in the mental health field here: Staff-patient confidentiality is super important, and something that is taken very seriously. HOWEVER, we are required to notify the proper people if we believe that the patient is going to be a danger to themselves or others. This is something that is regularly disclosed to someone throughout treatment. In the U.S., there is a section of HIPAA that protects your identifiable health information for up to 50 years after your death. However, this confidentiality can also be breached pre or post-mortem if it’s due to a court order and/or requested by public health authorities.
my personal theory for this film is how “sulfur side” never really makes the ‘demon’ (problem) go away it just transfers the trauma onto someone else in the most literal sense in this movie
that's a much more generous way of looking at it than how I saw it, it feels like if that were the message then then victims would actually have agency to decide not to instead of a full on possession, and plus I feel like Rose taking a possessed toaster bath at the end there kinda ruins that message and is doubling down that there is no other option
@wiiink Fair assessment. I think passing the trauma/demon from yourself to an unrelated party through deleting their loved one rather than yourself as a way to exempt yourself from forced self-deletion is a pretty messed up twist in this message, too. Like.... that's the only way to save yourself? That guy in prison certainly wasn't saved. He's carrying that trauma forever PLUS he wrecked his life PLUS he perpetuated the curse..... and she walked away from that interaction thinking that this would be a favorable option for even a moment?
sosie bacon’s performance carries this movie. her acting in this as she’s slowly losing her mind makes me uncomfortable which is exactly how horror should make you feel but unfortunately the movie cuts itself off whenever it really gets into these moments in favor of a quick scare that sure will get you in the moment but it won’t stick with you afterwards. any movie regardless of genre should leave the theater with you.
I just want to say that the girl explaining the smile entity in the beginning also did an amazing job acting. I agree about the main actress and her acting being incredible but the other actress set the entire tone of the movie and did it amazingly
If anyone likes the premise of seeing or having crazy things happen to you but no one believes you and just think you're mental, there's this book series that I love that does that kind of thing. It's called "The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer."
Why would RU-vid ever accuse Dylan of not uploading on a Monday????? He of course would NEVER do that to us. His posting schedule is the most consistent of all the RU-vidrs ever.
This was such a good commentary. I never watch Horror films unless it is with Dylan. I also love how he doesn't realize that both the psychiatrist and the guy at the end was the demon itself xD
Something I love of this movie is the use of color, specifically the use of pinks and blues. Rose is always wearing blue, progressively getting more dull as the movie goes along as she loses touch with reality, and her sister is always in pink.
Pink used to be theorized to calm aggression (being the weaker sibling of red) in color theory and for years was used in psych wards and even drunk tanks and the like before the link was disproven. It makes sense that the sister would also be pink; she tries to appear happy and bright but she seems pretty unhappy in actuality, and as a psychiatrist, it would probably be endlessly annoying to Rose (blue roses represent mystery and secrets, also pride).
I thought I was going insane yesterday cause I saw the notification and made a mental note that I was gonna watch it later, and then when I was gonna watch it, it was gone💀
@@matildahogstrom331no because literally the same thing happened to me😅 I wanted to watch it while having breakfast and I thought my phone was glitching just now
@@matildahogstrom331same... omg 😂 i was putting in search "dylan is in trouble smile" from the moment it showed when i watched like 10 minutes of it. Was going totally crazy. I am so happy i am not alone. Also was checking all socials of Dylan looking for info what happened...❤❤❤❤ cheers
I think the reveal of her mom being a monster was supposed to be a “shock” to the viewer and the fact she didn’t call 911. Like ooooo big reveal. Everyone thought the chick who cut her face off in the beginning was going to be a main character because of how they did their marketing….she was not. They should’ve kept the sister head scene out of the trailer cause everyone knew it was going to happen which made it a lot less scary IMO.
Every review I watched about this said the sister’s head was the biggest/best scare… they must have been lucky enough not to see the trailers.. cause that just ruined it for me.
About the whole rant you had that she's a psychiatrist and should be self-aware: there's a saying that professionals in the medical field make the worst patients. So I'm honestly not surprised that she's in denial 😆😆😆
Traumatized people rarely think clearly when they have an episode. Being a therapist doesn’t change anything about being a vulnerable human. It’s not like she could stop and self-analyze and self-diagnose on the spot. All therapists and psychiatrists are taught to never do that and to seek help from another professional instead(which she did. but just going to therapy won’t erase the trauma; it just gives you tools to cope to minimize symptoms). Idk if it’s Dylan’s condescending humor but it annoyed me a lot this time, how he reacted to the main character’s trauma responses and her dealing with her childhood trauma as a kid. And I’m not a new subscriber whatsoever so idk what’s all the excuses in the comments saying that it’s only new subscribers who don’t get his jokes. To me his comments in this specific video were sometimes tone-deaf. The movie is about dealing with trauma and not being able to escape it in the end. Nothing really fun and goofy about it. You still can laugh as a method of coping but the jokes could’ve been more tasteful.
@@26349 yeah, sadly I know all about how trauma can mess with your head. All I said was that there is that saying: doctors make the worst patients. I didn't mean anything specific with it, I only thought about it when Dylan went on the rant.
This movie was actually pretty scary. I’m glad I watched Dylan reacting to it versus actually watching the movie itself on my own. It takes the edge off
Recently I watched a Dylan video from 4 years ago when he was only 16. Such a mature young man with so many wise and profound insights with a bright future ahead of him.
the boyfriend was questioning her about setting off the alarm, not about having an alarm system activated in the first place. also the scene with the phone call isn't scary because of a potential home invasion, but due to the implication of an evil force already being inside because it's not just in the house, it's inside her head, and there's no getting away from it just like there's no running away from yourself, and that's the terrifying part. the evil force of this movie is a metaphor for mental illness and trauma, and you cant defeat those by throwing punches or running away
Dylan mentioned movies never referencing others, I immediately could tell he never watched any of the Scream movies lmao they do that in practically EACH ONE 😂
The reason why horror is my favorite genre, is because you need to put in genuine effort to writing the characters and plot of a horror film. Which of course, you need to put in effort for any movie. But with horror there's a layer to that. When a horror film uses jump scares as a crutch, you laugh off the danger. You aren't being scared by what's on screen, but the loud BANG that comes with the scare. But when horror is written well, you can explore the inner workings of the mind...and through that...a mirror can be malicious, a phone call can be petrifying, a handshake can be horrifying, a door can be devastating and dangerous, a home can be haunting, and a smile...can be sinister. And images can be ingrained in your head for days.
@@deadpoolynoodle3651 it has it's problems, but Smile is a good enough time for me that I can overlook those issues. The only flaw is as Dylan said, we just didn't know enough about Rose, but I think that's also on purpose. When you put walls up you essentially wear a mask. I did it all the time last year to the point I didn't know what was a real emotion from me or not. It started to scare me so I got help. Rose didn't get help for her trauma and thus it festered. I think the director purposefully left plotlines unresolved, again as a way to reflect on how these things in real life often don't get any closure. Just...oh well you experienced something traumatic that sucks okay moving on.
@@TheRibottoStudiosthere's a lack of character building as Dylan said, some bad camera work, terrible scares and use of suspense; just overall seem liked a very choppy movie. Very cheap
About the demon thing- it depends on how its done. There's this idea that the demon's goal is to terrorize you, so its not that the demon HAS to break in, but the demon might do it to scare you and mess with you and make you start to "go crazy." Or, if its still possessing a person, the possessed person could be the one breaking in.
The demon in this movie feeds on trauma and suffering, then, when the host reached its peak in terms of stress, and panic, and desperation, the demon absorbs it to get stronger - and then moves onto another traumatized host to make them spiral next. Just like societal/generational trauma which is ingrained not only in people but in our social systems.
I kinda like how the movie was using the monster as an allegory for mental illness, but I feel like it didn't know what it wanted to say about it. Like it feels like it's saying that if you're traumatized you should lock those feelings away and not let anyone near you or otherwise you'll be spreading your trauma?? Like for the whole movie she's ignored and pushed away by other people and pushes other people away in turn, and is punished whenever she tries turning to others for help. If going to her old home and talking to her fake mom had given her some closure as a way of saying "theres no cure for trauma but best you can do is learn to recognize it and live with it" and then has to coexist with the monster then it would have been okay but they just decided to have her delete herself from life which isn't an okay way to handle a topic like this
FYI Psychologist/ psychiatrist has their own psychologist to make sure they haven't gotten crazy or they just can go and talk about harder cases to ask for help. Or after traumatic events with a patient to talk it through. At least in my country 😅
Dylan is proud when he knows a movie is going to try to scare him or someone is going to die. I am proud when I know Dylan is about to transition into an ad read.
The marble joke was definitely worth it. I watched the Aladdin video when it came out and I've been waiting for it to come back. I knew it would eventually, thanks for cheering me up today, Dylan!
I liked the marble joke. I've had a lot going on recently and it was just what I needed. Thank you, Dylan, for sacrificing your seven dollars to make my day.
You know what would have been funny? If at 27:41 while saying "patients who are losing their grasp on reality" you picked up the marbles again and shook them to illustrate "losing their marbles"
I'm so proud of Dylan for finally trying to be different and post on a Thrusday instead of his consistent Monday. It's always nice to try something new
After Dylan’s book comes out, I’m gonna wait 25 more years for Dylan to release a movie. With hearing all of his movie making advice and knowledge, I’ve always wanted to see a movie directed by him.
Subtle horror is something that is sadly overlooked in favour of easier jump scares. It can be scary if things are jumping out at you that are frightening, but the uncertainty of a situation and not knowing what is going to happen is a lot scarier. "There is no terror in the bang, only the anticipation of it''.
Dylan actually kept his word and bought marbles. Ngl, everytime I rewatched the Aladdin comentary, I was wondering if he would actually go through with it. He did. Im speechless. Such dedeication.
Lesson learned from Dylan if you don’t want to get scared while watching a horror movie get really mad about getting scammed out of two dollars and you will be focusing on the whole time 😂
Dylan, I don't even mean this jokingly. Nobody can replace you! You're movie commentaries are the best on RU-vid because you're not just extremely funny but also know your stuff. Do you really think anybody else teaches us about camera angles or screen layouts??? I'm not just having the best time watching your videos, but I am also learning something. So, just become a director because I think you would be hella good at it.
I haven't seen it but based on this video It looks like a solid, nothing too far fetched but well executed horror film with a few good scares. The demon feeding off of trauma was actually really smart, it flows really well into horror imo. I would love if they made a sequel starting off like the same night as the ending where Joel knows he's on a timer here and starts desperately trying to figure it out how to save himself and break the chain. He retraces Rose's steps from when she spoke withe the prisoner trying to figure out what happened. He talks to her fiancé who is ofc no help, then he speaks to her sister (being smart about it and just coming from the "I cared for her and I miss her too" angle) and eventually she opens up about the past and their mother etc. Then he speaks to her therapist and (after pressing and begging) she finally divulges the last conversation she had with Rose. All the while he never outwardly expresses that he thinks what happened to her will happen to him even though he is being haunted and knows it will happen soon. He promises Rose he will figure this out in her honor and break the chain. Then we go into his past trauma whatever that is and because he's know therapy didn't help Rose, desperate, he goes to a hypnotist where he sees the demon again and freaks out the hypnotist Burt once he wakes up the hypnotist is smiling wide and he jumps but he's just pleased to announce that he discovered a hidden trauma that Joel had forgotten about. One night he is thinking about Rose, staring into the bathroom mirror at himself and he starts to smile really wide - he snaps out of it. Yadda yada idk eventually he has a final boss battle with the Rose demon and kills her but in the process he is arrested and spends like 6 months in jail but he does not care at all because he is free of the demon. Epilogue: He gets out of prison and goes to Rose's grave. A girl is visiting her grandmother and they chat. She asks him out for coffee and before they leave, she says "has anyone ever told you you have a really nice smile"? "Uh, no, I don't think anyone has. Thank you." He gulps. The end. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. 🙏
