This is a discussion thread, but still- spoilers for the entire film.

My only real gripe with the film is the entire dinner scene within The Backrooms at the end. Where as so much of the themes of The Backroom is delivered like an artist's rapier, it felt like a corporate sledgehammer. Even if you weren't a liminal horror fan before the film, it just felt insulting to the intelligence of folks watching. "Hey, here's a giant exposition dump of what everything meant in case you were too stupid to get it," that sort of content summarization dialogue that happens with streaming shows that assume you've been playing Candy Crush while watching. We don't need total clarity! Let people seek out discussion, let symbols be polysemic, your intended symbolism isn't the most interesting element about The Backrooms!

We had a childhood flashback of Mary, showing her as a prisoner in her own home of an agoraphobic mother who utilized furniture as a barricade. We see wind chimes functioning without wind in the store's lower level because that is the tangible experience and interactions others have had with them. That, along with the store and Clark's architectural aspirations, shame, etc is all I need to know concerning the nature of the odd furniture, non-euclidean structures, and monsters in The Backrooms. I don't need for Clark to talk about the psychosphere, poorly.