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"They have no feelings. they just. Exist." Thats.. horrifying knowing Clark had this sense of wanting control over everything. He can eat them, stab them, do what he wanted. It goes back to the divorce, no duh, about the fact that his wife kicked him out and he had no control over that aspect of his life anymore. He wanted control. He wanted to be in control. And the fact that he's just... manhandling and controlling those still lifes, the fact that he can do whatever, it has so many chilling implications. No wonder he stayed there. No wonder he didnt want to change. Everything was perfect in those yellow walls. for a time at least.

im a big fan of the idea that the backrooms are an allegory for what dissociation does to your brain. the backrooms represents what happens to your brain when you go through repeated trauma and how it will remember stuff, but not quite exactly how you want it to. a place that is supposed to feel like home and tries to remember it being cozy and comforting but it can’t. all it can remember clearly is the “feelings” you felt as a person. not even your own identity is completely known in the backrooms. because that’s just how much trauma will mess and distort your brain.

Anyway i love how the movie uses this very abstract out-there horror premise to represent the human tendency to get stuck on something and obsess over it and become trapped in a never-ending cycle and to resist change so hard that you still change anyway but in a way that degrades and warps and destroys you and the fallibility of human memory and how every time you recall something it gets a little less accurate which means the more you obsess over something the further entrenched in it you become the more you choose to live here the worse it gets the less you understand it until your perspective on the objective reality of it is completely destroyed. The backrooms are a brain the whole thing is a brain. The horror is the human brain. CAN ANYBODY HEAR MEEEEE