the Backrooms official Movie just released, and I thought it was FANTASTIC. So this is my first (of many) videos analyzing and explaining the Backrooms movie... it's lore, it's secrets, and what you might have missed. There will be many more Backrooms movie explanations to come on here, so stay tuned! source for images used: https://kane-pixels-backrooms.fandom.com/wiki/Backrooms_(film)/Gallery Follow ME! https://www.youtube.com/@UCXYOcdKR9dAstpJwtTjl3aA https://www.instagram.com/notbroogli/ intro 0:00 movie breakdown & analysis 1:02 rating & best/worst parts 25:19 leave a like on this video if you want more Backrooms Movie breakdowns!
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The part at the dinner table where Clark said “and the best part is, you can eat them.” was so funny yet weird at the same time 😂
9:09 he's also half drunk lol liquid courage
I was real nervous when Clark’s switch up during the table scene happened, but they wrapped it up at the end of the movie in a way that made it work for me
I love the moral complexity of having Clark being the antagonist that we follow. This feels like the idea of weaponized nostalgia, not being able to trust your own memory and this comes into play in regards to Clark being an unreliable narrator. I lowkey think Clark was minimizing how he was treating his wife and judging by how her still life reacted when pirate Clark came into the room makes me think that he was abusive towards her and he is putting up a mental wall
I really want a Broogli Back Rooms movie!! Your my fave Back rooms content creator. And would super enjoy your version of movie.
man... seeing your videos again really brings me back, I mean you were like all of my middle-school years. I watched you on my school account in the back of my ELA class in 6th grade, and continued for years. you got me into the backrooms. so long ago but feels like yesterday i was at the lunch table talking with like 15 of my friends abt the backrooms. legit watch all of your old vids back then. you made the backrooms like a culture at my old school and a memory to never forget.
Watched you during covid wayyyy back then, good to see you doing well bro ❤
11:44 “which is that guy from Victorious by the way” thank you so much Broogli for mentioning that Naren Warne my beloved ❤️ (he died too soon) I will always mourn Naren throughout the entire Kane Pixels Backrooms lore. We never even got to see Naren’s beautiful face in the movie apart from the ID card. That magnificent Naren never had any non-POV screen time and never will. This is the sole reason I rate the movie a 9/10 instead of a 10/10 Rest in peace Naren Warne. 🕊️
I think that the fact of Clark saying Still Life "can't bleed nor feel any pain" and then, we got Pirate Clark bleeding and apparently, feeling pain, is about the way Clark saw himself and others. In the first conversation with Mary, we see Clark is a little selfish: although he admits that he has the tendency to hurt others, he only complain of his troubles in life, his pains, his frustrations, ignoring that everybody got problems and pains. And his wife is no different. But as I said, it looks like Clark ignores the other's feelings. So, he "materializes" his way of thinking in the Backrooms, making it conceive Still Life that look feel no pain, while the Pirate Clark (the way he sees himself) feel pain and can bleed.
You’re so right about the primal scene (or big reveal if you prefer). It was excellent. The most chilling line for me was “and you can eat them!” It was all so creepy. I agree Mary’s backstory went too deep. You’ll probably touch on why and how. All in all an excellent movie
Mary definitely survived, that’s just an imprint of her showing that no matter what happens in the backrooms or what happens in the film, the backrooms remains and it keeps the imprint of memories from those that enter, constantly learning and evolving.
Someone on Reddit made a post about how they feel the Backrooms acts like an MRI, scanning different planes of your brain for imaging, which can get warped if you move. Pretty interesting idea considering ASync apparently got their initial funding due to their MRI advancements.
The ending part for me was really confusing so thank you for breaking it down for me Also are you aware that someone wants to collab with you Broogli?
This movie has more Silent Hill 2 DNA than what we will ever get... the comparisons are crazy!
The scene that got me was the Bobby & Kat scene, everything from the moment Bob went down there to when Clark ran away from the scene was chilling. I did NOT expect them to use THAT much voilence 😭 lowkey best horror movie in the past year besides Obsession
Now we know what a still life looks like 16:30 btw it said "Why think in terms of magic, BE REALISTIC!"
One thing I’ve not seen anyone talk about (I’m only 11 minutes into the video, so maybe you do) is the parallel between Clark and Mary: their displacement from their homes. They were both forcibly removed from their homes, and are forced to watch others abuse their homes at a distance. For Mary, it’s literally being torn down, and for Clark, he’s watching his ex use all his things that he paid for after he’s been kicked out. They both crave the opportunity of reentry, but can never go back. I think this could also be a metaphor for the displacement caused by the Backrooms. Here we have this space with echoes of the past placed in very strange, non-human ways, and it’s not the same and never will be again. Memory and decay are also huge motifs in this film. The Backrooms is remembering the real world, people, places, but it’s not quite right. Idk, i just thought this was a really interesting layer that I haven’t seen people talk about.
I always interprited (Kanes version) The Backrooms as symbolism of Alzheimers Disease and this movie made me beleive that even more
15:32 The therapist gets the cryptic voicemail from Clark saying he’s broken through the pane/pain and isn’t coming back.
What I got from the movie was that the entity in the backrooms was Clark's Shadow (in a Jungian sense) manifested and in trying to appease it he tried to reconcile with it but it didn't work out in the end. In Wikipedia it is written like this '"The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself" [for example the fact that Clark became a salesman pirate instead of a proper architect], whether consciously or unconsciously, and represents "a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well."' And phrase a tight passage really piques my interest because that's what a liminal space is. It's a transitional space; a space where you shouldn't rest in for so long. And Clark saying that he truly felt home in this place and reassuring the entity that they don't have to change is an interesting thing for me because the Backrooms are, in concept, a place that is supposed to be temporary (a transitional period whether physically or psychologically) perverted into something that is forever. And by staying in this infinite space Clark refuses change of any kind ,since change is impossible without finite space and time, and that's why he's killed by the entity at the end: He gets absorbed by it. This reminds me of a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen wherein a man is condemned to execution because his Shadow started controlling him and the Shadow convinces a princess that the man is actually the Shadow's shadow. (I don't remember the fairy tale's name if someone knows please tell me.) In the movie the absorption is rather literal with the entity eating him. So Clark is killed because he doesn't encounter his Shadow and tries to change and by doing that starts individuation; but rather he tries to appease it and on the way is eaten up by It. (Sorry if it was a little all over the place and clunky. English isn't my first language)