i have loads more i could talk about but really, i should have started working out 25min ago, so i'll keep it brief and maybe say more later.
what i think was really interesting about the captain clark, thing, uh. in the backrooms movie, is the design, most specifically the face, but i think, aside from obviously being a pirate costume like he wears in his captain clark sales persona thing, is that the costume is just that, it's a costume. nobody wears things like that ANYMORE. but they did, they used to, in a real past that ends up being scrubbed down by the modern day. kids get all sorts of pirate media, but you don't typically see kids throwing thief-terrorist themed birthday parties. a harmful part of the past is reshaped into something that we look back upon with fondness and longing, much like most everything else in the backrooms: and you don't even have to actually like it! you have to be comfortable with it, just comfortable enough that it comes across as better than something being different. same way clark keeps putting on the costume although he loathes every part of it, and is frustrated and juuuust about to boil over with venom at the whole store, the same way he ceaselessly keeps the thing moving.
but, ah, the part i wanted to talk about, the face. i like that it's afraid. it isn't an angry face, or an evil grin, this is a very obviously frightened and despairing expression that captain clark has its face twisted into, in perpetuity. and i think that does really, very much suit how clark feels about himself and about the person he puts himself out to be. because we all know that he says that he just hurts people, and that it's the way he's wired, yeah? but he follows that with the fact that he doesn't want to do it, that he thinks he deserves to be alone because of it. and then, nonverbally, he follows that with more harm. it's his big cycle, that he hurts people, and he hates it, but he won't move on and he won't change it. and i think that captain clark, this ego or self that disgusts him so much, going about and devouring everything, destroying it, suits him, yes, especially devouring clark himself: he gives into captain clark and the construct of the things he's decided, even if he loathes them, he just has to be - he likes it here, but he does it all afraid, deeply, deeply afraid, perhaps of what he, himself is doing. but not afraid enough, it seems, or maybe TOO afraid, to stop himself. very clark!
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