Feels almost like a way of saying you have to smile through everything and sometimes people will keep pushing and pushing to see how much you can smile through. Very old animation but still interesting.
Reviews for "Smile!"
What I appreciate most of this is the depth and plethora of messages this holds. Many of which I am sure were intended, and perhaps a few that weren't.
I appreciate how it begins with the music artificially dated in quality to match the aesthetics to reflect what videos we have of the Third Reich, setting the tone for something particularly
The cleverly depicted automatons, shown both figuratively and literally, pleases me just as much. Already they were seen to be led as 'sheep' to conform to the demands (no matter what was written), but the slight pan to the side at the end upon slaying the victim to show their faces to be no more than masks fixed upon robotic bodies leaves no doubts as to what the representation was meant to hold.
The apparel worn by the committee of nazi-likened automatons is indicative of high school or college fashion, each representing the 'popular cliques' we would find there.
The 'new kid', or victim, is not marked to match or deviate from any of these. This is your average Joe who struggles to conform. At first, he fails because he is confused by the demands set before him. Then, upon realizing that it is conform or die, he attempts to comply even if it means gritting his teeth. That is until he realizes, upon seeing the blood pooling at his feet, that the backstabbing has already caused a great deal of damage and he's able to see the wreckage caused by rumors or any other means that the 'cool kids' would be able to use in their twisted arsenal. The realization causes him to falter, resulting in further punishment that eventually leads to endless backstabbing until it killed him, which I take to be more figurative. Then he is discarded, once the light leaves his eyes.
Thereafter, the depraved revel as though nothing had transpired, outlines the lack of care they have for any of it. I think that part is what ultimately serves to be the cherry on top.
Another alternative message is that refusing to smile and pretend everything's all right is the quickest way to be ostracized.
And I can’t get enough of this.
I love the totalitarian Utopian feel of it. I'm a sucker for things like that. Gives me a Brave New World/1984 vibe to it.
sex in Ending LOL
nice animation, to smile takes alot if you are stressed the everyday issues make u more stressed but to smile takes alot of hardwork) even if it is a fake smile stay smiling. Smiling makes everything better its like a bandaid lol)