Backrooms

"For starters, they can’t feel anything. Can you imagine how good that must feel? I mean, there’s no thoughts, no pain, no ego. No fear. They simply... exist. Like furniture." The first half of the movie makes you feel like you’re watching a simple movie about this internet phenomenon, but then the second half starts and you totally change your perspective on the movie. It gets darker on a psychological scale it makes you understand why these familiar rooms that we’ve been seeing on the internet for years make us feel something strange, creeps us out. Because in the movie these rooms aren’t part of a simple secret “dimension” instead they are “a room of one’s own” they reflect the life of the subject that enters the backroom, for example we see how at first these places are filled with house decors, that’s because initially in the movie the backroom symbolizes Clark’s life and own mind even the entities, at first glance we don’t think much about it but then in the scene where Clark ties Dr. Mary to the chair and they put up the act of when he was kicked out of his house, the entity behind him resembles the wife, and that is implied especially when the entity that resembles him is about to appear and the “wife” goes nuts, that is because she is and was also in real life scared of him that night, from then on it all gets more clear. Everything is just a reflection of the wrecked life that they hide or ignore, that’s why by the end of the movie we see a a bunch of debris and the house destroyed, because that’s related to Dr. Mary’s childhood trauma. The sad part of the movie is when Clark says that he’s happier in that place than in real life, because there he can “rewrite” his own life. A heartbreaking reminder that some people would rather lose their ego, their thoughts, and their humanity to a yellow void than confront the wreckage of their own lives. “They simply exist. Like furniture.” Rip Dr.Mary though you would’ve loved Jane Austen.