okay last backrooms post because i genuinely want people's thoughts and also because i want to encourage media literacy. so here's some backrooms questions, spoilers under the read more.
when i ask "why" i am not asking in the literal sense, i want you to instead substitute every why with "what did the director mean when he did this;". this is not meant to be condescending - i genuinely am asking these because i loved this movie because of how just absolutely choked with denseness it is, it is laser focused, and i want other people to be able to enjoy it the same way i do.
so without further ado;
why is clark dressed as a pirate when he runs a furniture store?
what were non-fictional pirates actually like?
as the owner-manager of a furniture store, where do clark's class interests lie? is he a laborer?
what about all the other characters in the movie that show up for more than a single scene? what are their class interests?
what are the genders of all the characters that react with fear to the backrooms? what are the genders of all the characters that react with awe/i-want-to-know-more of the backrooms? if there is a pattern, why would the director make there be one?
what is meant by the store title "captain clark's ottoman empire"? what was the ottoman empire, and, outside bad furniture pun, does it have any relevance to the story?
why do they mark the entrances off the wall in blue tape in particular? what might that mean?
spoiler questions;
does it seem meaningful that the three still lives that clark has at his disposal are, respectively, a disabled person in a wheelchair, a blue collar worker, and a representative of His Wife?
why does he scalp still-life-wife-standin? does it mean anything that he *scalped* her, as the specific attack action?
what does it mean that captain clark is, well, specifically captain clark, and not any other memory of clark?
why does captain clark eat clark when he does and not a moment before or after? does the dialogue at the moment mean anything?
what does it mean that mary's childhood home full of furniture is demolished for a condo?
how much furniture is visible in the flashback with mary's mom in the mental home?
who do you think drew the captain clark drawings and why? (consider; motive, materials, and time)
why is/was async an mri company and not any other kind of company? do mris mean anything, or was it a hospital technology picked at random?
why is clark stealing furniture from the backrooms?
is it important that clark is a failed architect, or could that have been excised from the story? why or why not?
is it important that clark is a furniture salesman specifically, or was it arbitrary?
is it important that clark went from failed architect to failing furniture salesman?
what does captain clark represent to clark?
what does captain clark represent to everyone else?
what does it mean that clark used his position as the manager of a female worker to pressure her and her boyfriend to perform ultimately lethal off-the-clock labor for him?
why did a bed, specifically, be the object that knocked clark and the other two whose names escape me into the deeper part of the backrooms?
why does the sky look so weird every time we see it ("they are secretly in a higher up level of the backrooms the entire time" is not a valid answer)
what is mary's relationship to furniture?
how might mary's relationship to furniture differ from clark's relationship to furniture?
do you think mary liked clark before clark had his whole... thing?
is the backrooms uninhabited land that is free to take? why or why not?
should you be allowed to use rooms that nobody else is using?
what is a privateer? how might that relate to captain clark's pirate imagery?
why does the wife-standin still life run when captain clark shows up?
why is the girl worker's head in clark's fridge?
what do the caveman cardboards mean?
why, exactly, is it "scary" that the backrooms might have things in it walking around that aren't you? what prompts the fear?
why is clark excited that he doesn't have to change?
is it relevant that the story comments on how people are "neurologically wired", and also, async started as an MRI company?
why, specifically, does clark assume still lives can't feel pain? or at least, why does he say this to someone else?
outside of the movie, what is a "still life"? why might the movie call the people-like organisms in the backrooms a "still life"?
define "terra nullius". how do you think it might relate to the backrooms?
I know this movie is about cycles and loops and says so again and again but omg Iâm going CRAZY at the thought of Mary in her loop. TWO VERSIONS of her are right back to where she was as a kid. Stuck inside, staring by at yellow filtered light.
Everyone in Mary's life was trying to keep her stagnant and obeying. Her mother wouldn't let her leave the house by her own strict rules, Clark wouldn't let her leave the kitchen until she said what he wanted her to, the async scientists wouldn't let her go because of the information she could provide. Her whole life was basically just being stuck in the backrooms of everyone else's creation.
I really did like the ending of the Backrooms 2026, actually. The twist that the Backrooms is a space that you can physically exit but a part of you mentally will always be trapped in is a great subversion and really effectively inverts the concept. The main scientist character looks directly into the camera and reveals he is still caught in the same nostalgia trap that Clark was, stuck in a repetitive motion and going nowhere. Mary got out but she's still in there. You can leave but you can never escape
a handprint made in concrete is just the image of a hand, itâs not the real thing. or, itâs the absence of a hand, more than anything, the negative space. the casing around where it should be. itâs an indent that was made from something real - that could not have existed without something real - but itâs not the real thing, itâs just trying to be. maybe itâs not even trying. you put your hand there with your mother and the concrete remembers, and the handprint doesnât even know why it exists, it just does. if we can make copies and not-things from real things in the world, whoâs the say the world couldnât do that itself? does it even need to know why?
âWhy are you scared of datingâ Iâm not scared of dating, I just havenât found anyoneâs company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I donât care
âWhy are you scared of datingâ Iâm not scared of dating, I just havenât found anyoneâs company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I donât care
I've never actually read Wizard of Earthsea and I'm reading it now and it's so funny. Sparrowhawk is like "oh man I fucked up, what horrible evil thing have I summoned, what will it do, how can I defeat it" and all the master wizards are just like "I don't fucking know. That was super weird, I'm an ancient wise archmage and I've never seen anything like that in my life. You did evil shit and now there's evil shit out there. Good fucking luck I guess."
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