#ziggy talks

Plants are in the vast majority of scenes in the real world, but never in the backrooms.

Clark avoids questions from Mary consistently, rarely answering, just supplying a mildly related statement but changing the subject. The researcher at the end does the same thing. But when Clark has Mary at the table and she does the same after he says "it's a real mess, isn't it", he demands that she "Answer the question". Forcing her into answering him when he has been skirting around her questions constantly.

"I have been in there. And now it's my job" I don't think he has a choice in the matter. I wonder if she will be forced into working for Async now.

At the end the researcher asks how she got "in here". Could be odd wording, or if they are still in the backrooms...

When she asks "have you been in there" he glances to the window (Also, before he comes inside, we can hear the commercial for Clark's furniture store in the background). After she asks where she is, he avoids her question, going on to talk about how the company used to make MRI machines. I don't think it can be the threshold through the windows— light was streaming through the windows in the background when she was brought through the threshold, but the windows where she is are blacked out. Are they still in the backrooms? He starts to say "I'm not" like he's not allowed to tell her, but stops himself as if he's being watched (he probably is). He also repeats himself in an uncanny way when he says "we all want the same thing here.. to just know even just a little bit more". After having said that same thing.

The fly follows Mary — first in the house in her childhood, then into the furniture store, then precedes her entry into the backrooms. I believe the last time we see it is when it lands on her shoulder before Clark chokes her and ties her up. It's like a symbol of her being held captive. Although I don't think it's there when she's at Async.

There are windows in the backrooms but they all lead to nowhere but more rooms. Like you can try to open the metaphorical window but you remain stuck in your loops.

We see some earlier on and through them you can see the sun paintings that are inside the house later when Mary is running from the Clark double.

Windchimes are a recurring theme along with seagulls.

Seagulls- beginning scene, clark sees one when he first enters, they're flying overhead when Mary pulls into the furniture store parking lot to look for Clark. We hear them in the end when the scene is first opening to Mary sitting in the room at Async.

Wind chimes- Clark places them in the basement as we see when Mary goes looking for him. We don't see any of the plants moving, but the wind chimes do. Is this because of distortion of the magnetic field rather than wind? It would make sense considering the threshold involves magnetism, with the MRI tie in. The chimes seen inside the backrooms (amongst crystal chandeliers while Mary is running) are not moving until she runs through them. The sounds of the wind chimes surface numerous times in the music.

The windows in Mary's home are covered with blinds. The windows in her office have curtains as well. After Clark leaves in a fit after showing her his map, she turns towards the window as if she wants to open the curtains and see him going to his car, but she never does. I didn't notice if there are blinds on the windows at her gathering in her home for the majority of the scene, but when she enters a room and closes the door behind her to take some pills from a bag, the window blinds are closed. I believe they are all closed when we see her picking up the phone in her home as well.

Can't fully make out the first samples used in the credits music, but they seem to be a distortion of an audio explaining how embryos develop, referencing the backrooms' distortion of real world "memories". The second track uses audio from one of the Kane Pixels Backrooms videos, talking about how the backrooms are going to solve all future concerns of storage, warehousing, and even housing.