Smile Writer/Director Parker Finn Talks Bringing the Unique Horror Film to Life

The grin is clearly a general image for warmth and benevolence and everything,

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Furthermore, I wanted to flip it completely around and for evil

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It was loads of enjoyable to use as a symbol.

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Yet, as far as I might be concerned, I was truly captivated by the thought

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that is the way I think we really use grins regularly in our genuine lives,

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Which is to conceal what we're feeling, right?

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Cumbersomeness, inconvenience, or regardless of whether it's more profound than that: distress, sorrow, stress, tension.

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