Backrooms

This was the first time I went to the cinema in my own in a very long time wow. I quite liked this movie. It had a very heavy creep factor as opposed to full on horror which I enjoyed (my popcorn flew out of my hands in the opening scene😫). Themes of loneliness, isolation, and refusal to change yourself are prevalent, and the first therapy scene was a great exploration of Clark’s character. He’s someone who causes his own problems and refuses to change, so is just stuck in an endless loop of self destruction, which reflects what we actually see within the backrooms. I don’t think I fully understood what exactly the backrooms entity was from Clark’s explanation in its totality, but one key thing I thought was interesting was when he said it creates copies from existing things but cannot fully remember, and how it recreates itself over and over till it becomes these which the messy forms. Sounded a lot like AI to me idk😭 Not sure it fully stuck the landing for me. It seemed like her mother had a form of mental illness but I got the sense that her old house has its own backrooms as well which made her mom lose her mind? Did Mary get absorbed into the backrooms in the store? And when she was talking to the scientist, was that in her copy’s head? Might need to watch it a couple more times but overall a decent time was had.