As Joel walks in, Rose is wearing that familiar creepy smile and has covered herself in gasoline – about to light a match. So no, Rose does not survive in Smile and even worse, it seems the curse has found a way to keep itself going, with Joel now presumably set to be its next victim.
She then takes her own life in front of Joel, effectively passing the curse on to him. The Smile ending closes as the camera focuses on Rose's death being reflected in Joel's terrified eye, showing that her fate will continue to happen to other people.
Rose dies in Smile's ending because she was only able to overpower the entity once. She had enough fight in her to take on the gangly demonic monstrosity and even appeared to kill it, shattering a lantern over its head.
Rose realizes that the only way to break the curse is to kill someone and hallucinates about murdering her patient Carl, her boss Morgan Desai peeling the skin off his face.
The ending of the 2022 horror movie Smile sees Joel (Kyle Gallner) arriving at Rose's childhood home and realizing that she is too far gone to help. Rose sees the monster, has a mental breakdown, and can't move. She truly and fully embodies the curse by starting a fire with her own body.
For most of the movie, Rose is left to face this demon on her own, but it's clear she's been forced to deal with her demons all by herself for years. The stigma that can come with mental illness has taught Rose to smile through her grief so as not to make others uncomfortable.
The Smile Entity, also called The Monstrosity or simply The Smile Demon, is the main antagonist of the 2020 horror short film Laura Hasn't Slept, as well as the titular main antagonist of its 2022 film adaptation/sequel Smile.
Every victim of the curse is chased for days by terrifying people smiling at them: it's a demon who wants to enter their body, but it has to wait for the right moment, with a witness who can look at their suicide. This way, the curse can continue through the witness' trauma in an infinite chain of death.
Rose begins experiencing hallucinations induced by the demon. Shortly after, she has trouble finding her cat, Mustache, and its tragic fate is revealed during her nephew's birthday party. The boy opens Rose's present to discover her cat's dead body.
The side effect of this selfless action was that Desire's plan failed, and Dream didn't kill anyone from his own family. As for Rose, she lost all powers related to the dream vortex and can now lead a regular life with her brother Jed (Eddie Karanja).
Smile writer-director Parker Finn characterizes the two endings of his film as an attempt to get ahead of audiences' expectations. In an interview with Polygon, he said that “horror audiences have gotten so savvy …
In the end, Smile has all three of those endings. Rose brutally stabs a terrified patient to death at her hospital in front of her screaming boss, Morgan (Kal Penn).
While the film could have taken the opportunity to have a post-credits stinger with Joel, either by continuing the curse or somehow ending it himself, it did no such thing and there is nothing after the credits. However, many people did work on the film, so feel free to stay behind and watch the end credits.
Smile clearly wants the audience to see the connection between Rose's curse and mental illness. Throughout the movie, characters use therapy buzzwords and often suggest that Rose's mental state is a result of her genetics and past trauma.
Co-hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman conducted their own experiment and concluded that both Jack and Rose could have shared the raft and survived, provided they propped their upper bodies upright and figured out how to attach Rose's life jacket underneath it to increase the buoyancy.
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The film stars Sosie Bacon as a therapist named Rose Cotter, who, after witnessing the bizarre suicide of a patient, goes through increasingly disturbing and daunting experiences, leading her to believe what she is experiencing is supernatural. It also stars Jessie T.
Smile turns that into a literal monster only the victim can see, as though it's a hallucination. The parallels to actual psychosis are striking, and that's why everyone around the main character Rose Cotter initially believes it to be a post-traumatic breakdown as a result of witnessing a suicide.
There's a little Easter egg at 1:21:16 as Rose looks at her text thread with Trevor. His ID picture at the top shows him smiling while an earlier glance at the thread has a non-smiling pic. 15.
Bacon told Variety. that she doesn't believe that Rose, no matter how unhinged she's become, was the one who killed Mustache. “I was living inside of her head, so I don't think that she did it. It would be hard for me to conceptualize thinking she would do something so awful.
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~ The Smile Entity, taunting Rose about how she will never be able to get rid of it. The Smile Entity is the main antagonist of the 2022 horror film Smile.
The first thing Rose does after putting an end to the entity's curse is to visit her ex-boyfriend Joel (Kyle Gallner), a cop who had been helping her throughout. Rose explains to Joel she broke up with him because she felt vulnerable by his side and didn't want anyone to get too close after what she did to her mother.
Northcott (Robin Weigert) reveals herself to be the demon. Her own therapist attacks her and shatters the sacred trust between doctor and patient — it's a shocking moment that represents the ultimate betrayal.