Smile 2
The following article contains a description of violence, death and self-harm.
Parker Finn’s sequel follows Skye Riley, a pop star on the verge of a major comeback.
However, her entire life is derailed when a mysterious and malevolent Entity invades her mind.
Directly tying the expansion toSmile’s endingallows the same vicious curse to infect an inherently larger-scale setting.
However, that’s not what the filmmakers had in mind.
However, this all played into the Entity’s manipulations.
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Entire characters like Morris could be creations of the Entity.
It does this in front of thousands of horrified fans, likely traumatizing them all.
As established inSmileand reiterated inSmile 2, the Entity creates a chain between its victims.
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This could potentially become a global catastrophe, an epidemic of the mind.
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This spreads the trauma that carries the Entity.
They plan to render Skye medically deceased before reviving her with adrenaline.
While the plan is an interesting theory the Entity uses it as one last false hope for Skye.
It even allows her to briefly think she’s won before pulling the rug out from under her.
Her formerly party-heavy lifestyle eventually led to a car crash that seriously injured her and killed her boyfriend Paul.
This caused the crash that killed him.
The painful pressure Skye feels makes her a deeply relatable character.
It repeats dark affirmations of Skye’s fears about herself.
The sequel will see the return of Finn as director, with Paramount continuing distribution.
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