@QThePast@whoopiedinkyboy@MichaelO2k so the whole trip into the backrooms is what mary would call "opening the window within", but for someone like clark you wouldn't find anything good with the window open. which is why mary at the end is like WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND BACKROOMS, SHUT IT THE HELL DOWN
@QThePast@whoopiedinkyboy@MichaelO2k and even the captain has this sad guttural moaning the whole time. I thought it was interesting clark runs back in after first leaving to grab a stool from the inside. its useful, bringing something back from the backrooms into the real world. he does that with all the things
Malls are not dying in Europe, but I have a distinct memory of walking through a dying mall.
It was my 13th or 14th birthday, and my parents took me to my favorite mall for pizza and to look at the video game/DVD store. However, what we did not know was that the mall was filing for bankruptcy and was days away from closing.
I remember immediately feeling like something was weird in the parking lot. Utterly empty. Our footsteps echoed off the concrete, even water dripping off pipes was audible due to the lack of engine noise.
There were barely any people. You had entire hallways of closed stores, utterly devoid of humanity. There wasn't even any music. Just rows and rows of shuttered stores, plain white brick and still dirty floor tiles.
Seeing my favorite place, utterly devoid of life, only the husk and fading memory of it remaining, really stuck with me. It felt like I was watching a terminally ill friend slowly dying in a hospital bed.
Generation Z has witnessed a lot of things they loved as children dying. Blockbuster and Toys R Us spring to mind. And liminal spaces, representations of locations that should be bustling with life, but are eerily empty, speak to us in a way they do not to other generations.
@Gibboanxious i've seen it 4 times and im probably headed back for a 5th viewing. have been hammering everyone with my theories and observations all week.
@fortressinlove the backrooms movie was a good introduction. felt very on brand for A24. someone else can get hokey with the idea unless of course A24 can copyright that whole thing. i think you want the same thing that all the kids coming to see it want i.e. camp memery and not a serious movie
@GlenntheGolden1@Saman_Habibi_E@Sydfish i think of an MRI machine and how it pulls things in. and phil says at the very end that they're seeing more and more portals pop up everywhere. so it's interesting, maybe like AI and the internet, it's connecting us all for better or worse