The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
There is something deeply troubling about a society that is quick to demand the harshest punishment for children, while celebrating convicted plunderers, tolerating corruption, and rewarding leaders who normalize violence.
Young people do not grow up in a vacuum. They learn from the values we model, the behavior we reward, and the systems we build around them. Violence rarely begins at the moment it becomes visible. It is often preceded by bullying, social isolation, neglect, untreated trauma, and countless missed opportunities for intervention.
If we want children to reject violence, then we must also be willing to examine the ways our society excuses, glorifies, and profits from it. We cannot celebrate violence among adults and expect young people to learn a different lesson.
One of my favorite shots in the entire movie
I love the telephone poles fading away to represent how most missing persons cases get forgotten with time
Backrooms is The Blair Witch Project of our contemporary AI-addled zeitgeist, a piece of conceptual art that *beautifully* captures a distinctly American vision of capitalist decay, a copy of a copy of a society we have never actually known.
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