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『I am that I am.』

Watched the Backrooms movie. Loved it. Thought it was a great exploration of mental illness and the inability to move past bad memories. Hopped on Tumblr. Everyone’s complaining about how the black lead is too angry and mean and scary, and that he shouldn’t have the character flaws that he has, and also they’re all posting thirst traps of the little white boy who was there for 10 minutes before being unceremoniously pulled into a dark room and ripped apart offscreen. I see how it is.

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thingsarentgood

Clark saying the creatures don't feel anything and then later in the same scene the woman anomaly is seen attempting to run away from the pirate, seemingly in fear. Something something devaluation of life seen as different than him.

sunnylovesgirlythings

And it’s taking things overly literally, which seems to be a bad habit of his.

He knows that they don’t feel physical pain. Most likely because they don’t have nerves since that seems an easy thing for the dimension with dementia to forget to add.

Same with them not being very expressive on a facial level. Due to well… Being a physical guesstimation of a person. All that overlapping biology would definitely make traditional emoting impossible. Too many eyes, brow bones, noses, etc. might not even have enough muscles for it. The one he tore into seemed made mostly of just pure fat.

But they’re alive regardless. They’re reactive and respond to stimuli in ways they understand how to.

Not just in red haired creature running and shrieking in fear. That’s easy to read. But also the lampshade one rapidly turning its lampshade on and off.

That’s a panic response from something that can’t flee because the chair is a part of its body. Doing the two things it knows it can. Turn on the light and turn off the light.

But the one he doesn’t undermine the interiority of? At least not as much? The captain. His copy.

He try’s to reason to that one. Talks to it like it understands him. Despite it looking the least real. It looks like a puppet over a man.

But it’s “him” so it matters

chekhovs-raygun

damn these are good points. he ends up in a part of the backrooms that's twisted around him. even the people he brought in to play with and consume. people at the end of their downward spiral no longer give any consideration to whether or not they're hurting others, even as they hurt other people to feel worse about themselves. some can't even recognize it.

at the end, all he cares about is his own reflection, and all he gets from it is his own teeth in his own meat.

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stormbreath

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

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hoodiehorizon

Me the first half of The Backrooms: "oh I get it. He's a down on his luck failed architect and even more failed furniture store owner who's trying to better himself. He'll probably be fascinated with the furniture/architecture of the backrooms and start selling the items there for money + notoriety. And eventually he'll go deeper and deeper to get more and more items until he gets trapped and encounters The Horrors. A classic tale of hubris :) "

Me the second half of the backrooms:

randallife

"and the best part is you can eat them" honestly what the fuck 🥀🥀🥀

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zubbyzub

From the fertile mind of Peter Blegvad.

the-carcass-collective

The backrooms movie

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bowhaus

More backrooms

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starvariety

a handprint made in concrete is just the image of a hand, it’s not the real thing. or, it’s the absence of a hand, more than anything, the negative space. the casing around where it should be. it’s an indent that was made from something real - that could not have existed without something real - but it’s not the real thing, it’s just trying to be. maybe it’s not even trying. you put your hand there with your mother and the concrete remembers, and the handprint doesn’t even know why it exists, it just does. if we can make copies and not-things from real things in the world, who’s the say the world couldn’t do that itself? does it even need to know why?

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