#kane pixels

Yall doesn’t my aunt look like Mary Kline?

"You are your brain"

This isn’t much of an analysis, but more so a dumping of thoughts.

After freaking out at his therapist, Clark disappears into the backrooms. His two employees discover his whiteboard map but don't know what to make of it. There is no tape on the wall. They know about his bad situation and drinking and so the Girlfriend decides to call around to see where he might be while the Boyfriend brushes it off as he's on a bender. Eventually he gets reported as a missing person and the police check with his therapist. Therapist Mary gets to thinking and goes to the store to see the map. She discovers the backrooms and finds that Clark left behind clues to find his way out, like he spray painted arrows or left cords or thread leading him back to the exit. Except it quickly becomes apparent that the backrooms have distorted these markings, and she becomes lost. The two employees may be with her. If they are, they get separated. The monster starts coming after them. Its Pirate Clark, and we have a scene where she wedges herself in a small crevice to escape him. Seeing his pained expression, hearing his cries, Therapist Mary goes full Therapy Mode. She is able to talk him down a little and he backs off, escaping into another corridor, giving her a chance to try and find the others. Maybe one is still alive, maybe they find the body of the other, and or the camcorder. Pirate Clark attacks again, about to kill, but Therapist Mary strikes again, and is able to calm Clark. He transforms a little more into his normal self. This repeats over time; she and the other character could note how they dont seem to be getting hungry or thirsty. There's tension when they run into the copies monsters and she isn't able to get through to them because they aren't people. This is where the theme of you can't save everyone comes in. The other character remarks at how well Mary seems to be handling the situation, like she knows how to hide, and she tells a little of her backstory with her mom. Clark appears and is finally talked down into being himself again. But another monster appears, like the squiggly monster from the original tapes, or possibly the dead character, killing the other and sending Mary and Clark off running. They find an escape route but the catch is that only one of them can make it out, for some reason. Mary decides to sacrifice herself and get Clark out. She says, you can't save everyone, but I can save you. He escapes. Mary then escapes the monster. Time passes. We see Mary becoming more adept at surviving the backrooms. She becomes thinner, taller, stranger, stringy. She mumbles to herself about not going outside. She regresses into a fearful childlike state, but adds in her mother's agoraphobia. She talks about it not being safe outside, that its so much better inside. We see the other monsters ignoring her. She wanders. Then she hears it: real, human voices. They're in her house. Her safe place. She bellows in rage. Footsteps take off running. She goes running after them. She has become the monster.