Why didn’t he just call the police?
>>221864672he wanted to investigate it himself, his architect background was pretense for his curiosity here
>>221864672Because the movie is retarded and not well thought out at all.
>>221864672Can you imagine the absolutely fucked up versions of police that would show up?
Because he had no issue with it. He was excited and happy to be in there and explore.
>>221864672Atmosphere 9/10Acting 8/10Setting 10/10First half 8/10Second half 5/10
>>221864672and what hes gonna tell them? "There is secret world you can go through dimensional door in the basement of my store"
>>221864672In 1990 a black man calling the police was suicide! They would have shot him on the spot!
>>221864803He had his coworker with the camera. Have the coworker film him going through the wall and show the police, or the therapist at least. He told the therapist he was going to get proof, that’s all you need.
>>221864840Nobody would be convinced with a videotape, unless it happens before your eyes you won’t believe it.
>man calls police to tell them about secret dimension in his shop>they already know about it but they arrest and imprison him forever to prevent word from getting out this is like letting the gov know you discovered oil in your backyard its just not gonna go well for you
>>221864868He has two other witnesses that can swear by what they saw. He also found that ID card in the bag, that’s a missing person to report.It at least will instigate an investigation.
>>221864800I didn't ask
Stop Resisting.
Reddit trash
>>221864925Based police. That jogger is done for.
>>221864900The two witnesses were killed in their first visit in the Backrooms
>>221864953
imagine how much higher his rent would be if they discovered he had an infinite extradimensional space in the basement.
>telling anyone about a world you discoveredI don't want black ops guys taking it over and killing me as a loose end.
>>221864996Yeah because they decided to go spelunking for no good reason.
>>221864672>Why didn’t he just call the police?Because its called the Backrooms
>>221864672Would it really be something worth calling the cops over?
>>221864672Nigga, you don't call the fucking police.
>>221865058Clark asked that lanky nigga to go check it out
I fully expected Clark to start collecting furniture from the backrooms and put it up for sale lol
Hes black...they just shoot them for wasting their time
>>221864767/threadthis flick is uninteresting aside from the top tier production
>>221864672What would the police do lmao
>why didn't that black prone to violance drunk just call the police?
>>221864800I asked
>>221864672Why would he want even more trouble?I would've rented the place out to boat people (pay in advance, ngubu)
What was the significance of this shirt?At first I thought it was about how backrooms have been here for a long time, but it's probably gotta do with all that "misremembering" shit
>>221866163i thought the misremembering only happened for those people who have already entered the backrooms, it's very confusing
>>221866163The white kid with the camera was wearing that shirt the first time you see him.
>>221866247well that settles it, thanks
>>221866163>>221866247And I assume the significance is that it very blatantly establishes the era. It's a very "dated" shirt linked to old politics that the zoomer audience will only have vague familiarity with.
>>221866310Yeah. Anti Apartheid was a big thing in the 90's
>>221866310i'm fine with that tbqh. sometimes they oversell the era like in Stranger Things, but here you notice it, you remember it, the guy doesn't need to say>WHAT THE FUCK I HAVE THAT SHIRT!or anything.i was a baby in 1990, but something overall about HOW it's written feels anachronistic. maybe that's every period piece ever, or writers just not realising that some turn-of-phrase wasn't in use yet.
>>221864672Anon, they disbanded 40 years ago.
>>221866163just to remind you it's set in 1990
>>221864672Because he's a black man in the USA
>>221864672Why didnt the therapist call the police the moment she found this place out?
>>221868911Rewatch the young Mary scene again to find out
>>221869660why is she a therapist if she has 'unresolved trauma'?i can't tell if it's intentional or not that she's made out to be charlatan.
>>221870082>why is she a therapist if she has 'unresolved trauma'?You answered your own question
>>221870131i get that she has broken bird syndrome, but how did she get to the point of selling books and shit? nobody caught this in supervision?again, i don't know if this is an intentionally-written flawed character (therapists are human, not robots) or if it's naive writer(s) + a director who didn't do research (beyond simply knowing 'people go to therapy').
>>221870310I thought about that too. It seems the self help books and audio cassette Clark listens in his car is how he ended up at Mary's actual clinic.Self help books were fucking huge in the early 90's and there was no internet. So it actually may be some clever writing.
>>221870467yeah fair. it's funny how 'self-help' has reversed. i used to read this stuff and it all feels dated now (pic fuckin related).like the shirt thing upthread, it was a bit blunt, but i suppose that's just economical storytelling. i'd rather groan a little bit at some convenient audiobook extracts:>we all go in loops! we put up walls!as opposed to NOT having those.i enjoyed the film, especially the set design, i think the script just needed a SLIGHT edit. Chiwetel Ejiofor did a great job selling some of the more on-the-nose lines.
>>221870810Yeah Chiwetel was great. Takes skill to make a loser with no redeeming qualities relatable.
>>221864672If he were a good citizen, he would have called City Hall to report an undeclared underground structure that likely violates numerous safety standards.That's what I would do because in one hand this shit is scary and I really want someone to come and see it, and in the other hand I don't want to get send to the psych ward.
>>221864672I think it might be implied complex messes with your head
>>221865625P sure some of the furniture ends up in the store during the last visit with the shrink
>>221870082>why is she a therapist if she has 'unresolved trauma'?That's a lot of therapists, Anon.
>>221871634It's more the mess in your head that makes the complex. It doesn't manifest itself in the real world.
>backrooms Clark just kills Clark for no reason>other backrooms creatures fear backrooms ClarkHonestly, more of the movie should've been like the first half, just him trying to prove that backrooms is real and going on more and more crazy areas before them getting trapped/dying off.Second half with zombie Clark chasing Mary was kinda lame.
>>221868900/thread
>>221870082Everyone has some amount of unresolved trauma. No one has perfect mental health like how no one has perfect physical health.
>>221872891this is nonsense. what if you simply had a healthy childhood? nothing happened to you? even a hardcore Freudian/psychodynamic therapist doesn't believe 'everyone is on the Trauma Spectrum'.maybe that's hard to fathom when you're in it. most depressed people i know seem to believe everyone else in the world is depressed, some people are just fine (even after horrific shit).
>>221873453>most depressed people i know seem to believe everyone else in the world is depressedYep. They also think thoughts of killing yourself are normal and that everyone thinks about that once in a while
>>221873453Yeah you are probably right. I can't imagine never having the shit beat out of me or being molested. It's incomprehensible to me because I've never experience having nothing happened to me.
>>221864749this>>221864672he was a mentally unhinged alcoholic and thought he'd found an elaborate hidden tunnel system - not a reality-breaking supernatural phenomenon
>>221873616He doesn't even believe the stool he retrieves from the backrooms is real until he sits on it in the real world. This is after his first visit where he hauls ass out of there in fear.He finds out pretty quickly it's not just some massive hidden storage space.
>>221873574sorry anon. i hope you can unravel it all somehow, have a better life going forward.
