"Laura Smiles" is an alarmingly efficient portrait of a lady's psychological breakdown. We're launched to "Laura" at her happiest time, in a heat, loving relationship along with her fiancé (a really interesting Kip Pardue) within the metropolis, actually the love of her life. In flashbacks, we then see the candy improvement of this relationship out of order as these moments change into brightly lit and coloured recollections that desperately intrude on her later in life, as she turns into consumed with guilt and regret over his destiny. These emotions begin to overwhelm her present life as a spouse and mom. As one thing inconsequential in what she calls her "suburban drudgery" triggers the previous -- within the grocery store, cooking, cleansing, at a college play-- she acts out more and more aberrantly to counteract the sentiments they generate, particularly when she will not distinguish previous from current from goals, recalling Blanche Du Bois.
