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I don't get it ...

posted 2 months ago by greentimemusic (1130)
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I mean firstly, after 400 hallucinations in a row wouldn't you start to become numb to them and just ignore them?

Also, if you need to have someone with you that would be a host when you kill yourself why are they all terrorizing her? They can't kill her because they need someone else to be the host. What's the point of them all showing up and chasing her? Why run? They cannot hurt you.

All you really need to do is kill yourself when you are alone and it ends? Seems simple enough.

The acting was fantastic but this movie was too long and drawn out. Hallucination after hallucination. Got boring to me. First one was miles better.

[–] Moonglum9 (11320) 2 months ago

How do you know the Smile demon identifies as a "they"?

[–] samoanjoes (57758) 2 months ago

It doesn't work like that. I would be like telling someone to ignore the dark thoughts they have when they're depressed.

[–] greentimemusic (1130) 2 months ago

I guess. But that seems different to me. Not sure why.

[–] cattntaw (404) 2 months ago

400? the fuck movie did you watch?

[–] greentimemusic (1130) 2 months ago

No idea. I was probably hallucinating.

[–] redban (6644) 2 months ago

Even if the demon’s hallucinations can’t actually harm her, they can inflict pain that feels 100% real when it’s happening. That’s why she runs and screams

[–] Aries (847) a month ago

We, the audience, know how the demon operates and how anything & everything she experiences could be a hallucination.

But she doesn't know that. She was already trying to cope with a lot of trauma and just got this curse added to everything else. Only when the ER guy told her about it did she actually come to know about it, but even then she barely registered what he was saying (which was a hallucination too, anyway). So from her POV, she must've thought she was "simply" losing her mind. The demon feeds off pain and dark emotions, which is why it continued to manifest those people, as it probably knew how far a victim could be pushed without offing them altogether before the chosen time.

There were a lot of hallucinations, true, but some of them were not easy to discern (like her mother killing herself, which was a hallucination within a hallucination) and Naomi Scott's acting made it bearable to watch.