Ali

they/it ✨️ 27

[vfeioa]

[skinreflectsthesun]

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

I want them

[daikaiju-arts]

(Based on this!)

[the-muppet-joker]

The Ideal Self

[sakrafka]

[kianamaiart]

[diphowell]

i love you baking editing dan

[kianamaiart]

Episode 3 tingz

[theartofmadeline]

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

[reunitedinterlude]

STUBBLE PHIL

[sukinapan]

new NPCs i made for Mircea :D

urban exploration group consisting of 3 young people and a 50 year old man

[the-muppet-joker]

All Work And No Play

[mctoran]

——

So since some people are deciding to be obtuse and misinterpret me, I’m going to be more specific:

If Clark was White, his fate would have been the same.

If Clark was Latino, his fate would have been the same.

If Clark was Asian, his fate would have been the same

So on and so forth.

Neither Clark’s race, nor the race of any other character, had any actual impact on the plot. The subject of race is never brought up in the movie, and is never a plot point. It does not influence the narrative. Chiwetel Ejiofor was not cast as Clark specifically because he was black, but rather because he was a talented actor who could play the role well and understood the material. I can’t pretend to know inner workings of this film’s production, but I highly doubt Clark’s role was written specifically with a black actor in mind. Anyone could have hypothetically played Clark, and it just so happened to be Chiwetel.

So just because Clark’s actor just so happened to be black, that does not suddenly make the movie a political commentary about black people, and neither do his actions or fate reflect on black people. Yes, Clark has clear problems, and is definitely in the wrong in several situations, but the film establishes is a clear cause and effect for the state that he ends up in by the end, none of which has to do with his race.

And on another note, the still lives are not humans, they only look kinda human on the outside and have fluffy stuffing on the inside. They are literally described as “living furniture”, and they are the only known accessible source of nutritional value in the Backrooms. So no, Clark is not a cannibal for eating them. Kane even alluded to this years ago in an interview where someone asked him if food existed in the Backrooms, and Kane replied with “one a scale of soup to table, how close are you willing to get to table?”

All of this to say, just because Clark is black, that does not automatically mean his role is intended to be a portrayal of black people, and therefore it is not a problematic nor harmful portrayal. Normal people are not going to watch this film and then assume that, based on Clark’s actions and fate, all black people must be insane savage cannibals. Racial commentary in this movie is a completely fabricated and projected subtext.

This all misses the point of what the Backrooms movie is REALLY about: mental health. The theme is literally established in the scene that introduces the main characters. Everyone is stuck in their own loops and patterns, some of which can be self-destructive vices. And even if you can recognize them, you still must make an effort choose to break free of them. Some people may succeed, some may try and fail, and some may simply choose not to change their ways because they prefer to remain wired the way they are. And even those supposed to guide others through this process, such as therapists, are also humans at the end of the day, with loops of their own.

[hangonsnoopy19]

No context Backrooms spoiler:

[sapphiresaphics]

I feel like the Backrooms movie is going to become another litmus test about people’s willingness to engage with a piece of media.

Because you cannot tell me that the kid who spent a summer meticulously crafting a 1:1 recreation of a demolished Texas mall for a psychological horror series on YouTube and who put so much time and effort into thinking about the psychology of The Oldest View….

…just so happened to skimp on dialogue and purpose for his cinematic debut film.

If you came away from the backrooms movie going “well there were plot and character moments in there that weren’t really explored and went nowhere” I am telling you that you are not paying attention.

This is one of those films where every line of dialogue, every odd thing you see in a frame, every unusual moment and shot composition, has a purpose and reason for being there.

And it’s not the film’s fault if you don’t wanna put in the effort to try and piece together what’s going on.

Now I’m not saying that makes it an inherently better film or something. You can still dislike it if you want. Taste is subjective. But it IS the type of movie that you get more out of the more you spend thinking about it than if you just brush off any weird moment or thing you didn’t understand as “weak writing.”

Like, I cannot stop thinking about the film and the more I do the more connections and moments I find that flesh out the world and the characters to me. Even the most innocuous little details are suddenly starting to make sense and offer up insight into the larger picture of this world…and it’s leading me to go down this conspiracy theory rabbit hole that makes its connection to the YouTube series even wilder and existentially creepier imo.

I feel like people who do that are going to get SO MUCH MORE out of this film than someone who just watches it once and shrugs their shoulders and goes “well that didn’t make sense to me.” Unpacking it all is part of the experience. That’s part of the fun. And if you don’t wanna engage with that, that’s fine. But that doesn’t make the film “bad.”

[bowhaus]

The window within

[secretumii]

A little different than my usual art but the backrooms has gotten under my skin, in my brain, my soul.

[novembermorgon]