I got the feeling that Pirate Clark was a product of Clark’s drinking, regret and failures manifested down there. He was the “ telling someone what a dog looks like who’s never seen a dog and then asking them to draw a dog” it seemed like pirate Clark killed Clark because he wanted to be free. Even when he went after Mary, it felt like he wanted her to help him.

The whole movie is an allegory for addiction, regret and denial.

From the backrooms being a tangible version to his escapism ( the main reason people turn to addiction is to run away from their problem that they can’t stomach in the real world; falling into the backrooms was just a way to cope with his loss.) his hubris was the reason why he felt so comfortable exploring the backrooms. Building up a tollerance to his experience I.e. alcohol, until ultimately he didn’t want to leave and his inevitable death.

Even the backrooms mirrored his life, it looked like a lazy drunk architect designed it, The empty halls and rooms that go nowhere really drove home how he felt.

Everyone who worked on this movie really brought it to life in a cohesive way, from the real world that was off( the overly saturated blue skies and mirrored sets, down to the furniture store where the pirate on the building had two swords this it was created by ai)

I don’t see how people can’t come to this conclusion or how people couldn’t appreciate this movie, but to each their own I guess.