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: A study on MovieWeb discusses the "masking" of pain, where the titular smile represents the societal expectation to hide inner agony.

: An analysis from the Colgate Maroon-News explores how the entity serves as a metaphor for how trauma spreads between people when it remains unprocessed. Smile.2022.720p.10bit.WEBRip.6CH.x265.HEVC.rar

: An analysis on Moving Pictures Film Club critiques the film's ending as promoting a hopeless message that trauma is "inevitable and unescapable". In Horror Film 'Smile,' Trauma is Contagious : A study on MovieWeb discusses the "masking"

Other insightful analyses and "papers" (in the form of critical essays) include: In Horror Film 'Smile,' Trauma is Contagious Other

: This paper uses Charles Sanders Peirce's triadic sign theory to examine how the film portrays PTSD through visual and textual signs. It argues that the movie successfully depicts an individual's internal struggle with trauma and guilt.

: Some reviewers, such as those at The Harvard Crimson , offer a counter-perspective, arguing the film provides a "shallow treatment" or "inappropriate address" of mental illness by relying on stereotypes of "craziness" for scares.