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Okay, after watching Backrooms, I want to share my opinion. There will be pros and cons. I liked the movie! I've been waiting for it for so long, and I'm soooo glad that Kane was finally able to release it! He and the team have done an incredible job, that's for sure. To see how something that originally belonged only to the Internet and its community turned into a REAL MOVIE is a truly historic event.

The pros first!

I just want to praise the variety of locations, THEY WERE SUPER COOL AND UNIQUE, just like in the spirit of Kane!! Visually, my favorite was this weird little bathroom with a big head in the corner. That's exactly what Kane knows how to do, is to convey the very feeling of uncomfortable copies of real rooms that Backrooms is trying so hard to recreate.

I also want to mention a few memorable scenes, such as Clark's first trip to the Backrooms, the scene with the Christmas Tree and the subsequent chase, or Clark and Mary meeting at the wall painting. Ugh, it definitely gave me goosebumps.

It was very nice to see easter eggs for fans of Kane's work (cardboard caveman, image of the sun, windcatcher, blue tape, Still Life soundtrack, etc.). And there was also a frame that repeated the original photo of Backrooms, I NOTICED! :D

I want to praise the GREAT ACTORS separately, God, they were so good!!

I don't know how unpopular this opinion will be, but I liked the open, ambiguous ending and the story with the girl. I like that there is a mystique left in them and it will be interesting for me to read theories about them, hehehe

And finally, I want to praise the overall atmosphere of the film: It was uncomfortable, uneasy, claustrophobic and artificial.

And now to the cons. There are fewer of them, but they are significant, unfortunately.

I didn't like that the Still Life was shown so openly and head-on. I really liked that in the Found Footage 3, the Still Life was shown for a couple of seconds, blurred, fuzzy, distorted, terrifying, because Ravi was running, he had no time to shoot, he was fighting for his life. That was the real mystery - we didn't have a single clear image of the Still Life. That's why I was pretty disappointed when I realized that the Still Lifes in the film would be on the screen for a long time. I also didn't like the way they were made: they looked more like not very high-quality rubber dolls :( Although maybe that was the idea, so I won't scold too much.

My second complaint is the format of the film in principle. The vibe of Kane's video is precisely that these are some random pieces of information thrown at us bit by bit, and it's unclear what it will be and how long it will last: a minute and a half monologue, a 9-minute video about the lamps in the Complex, or 45 minutes of pure camera shooting in almost absolute silence. And the film immediately implies a whole story with a beginning and an end, with its development, with certain characters and locations. It seems to me that this format is simply not quite suitable for Backrooms. They don't need structure, they don't need consistency. It seems to me that they need to stay in the Internet format they are comfortable with, from where they started their existence. I hope you understand what I mean.

I'm sure I forgot to say something, but now I can't remember lol

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