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Magnificent metaphors directed by 20-year-old YouTuber Kane Parsons; visiting the product of his pristine ingeniousness viewers are positively provoked to crawl among personal cauterized memories; surrealistic artists referenced throughout the rooms; sculptural reminders by Marcel Duchamp, or contemporary creator Juame Plensa goading us to transform our past actions into tools of recovery and discovery. The backrooms bring to the fore all the deeds, ignored, unresolved but still pulsating, crippling our ability to move forward, as improved human beings.
“Backrooms” is anchored by strong performances, especially Chiwetel Ejiofor as “Clark”, an alcoholic, divorced, frustrated architect working in his depressed furniture store; Renate Reinsve, (The Worst Person in the World, Sentimental Value) is “Dr. Mary Kline” an intuitive psychiatrist. Her apparent kindness, however, conceals her own deep uncertainties, rivers of angst she has yet to navigate. The film’s blend of psychological depth and horror blisters with potency.
The backrooms lie in the basement of the furniture store, haunted by confusing, confounding voices, music known and unknown, discarded furniture, long shadowy corridors, specters; metaphors for lack of initiative, signaling profound laziness. With ease we walk through walls following a clueless recorder of those fated to remain in an ungodly, everlasting purgatory.
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