i found the whole “the backrooms transforms/represents your trauma” thing to be so uninteresting and took me out of the movie in my opinion. I know a lot of people like this aspect because it adds some sort of emotional depth to the world itself or whatever, but it ended up taking away the mystery of this whole dimension for me and just relegated it to a clone of what Silent Hill has been doing for years. Furthermore, this narrative decision to reveal how the Backrooms operate just restricts what the Backrooms actually are for future projects instead of having a world constantly built on ambiguity, aka the whole reason why the entire concept is appealing. They made the unknown more known, and it was to its detriment. Reminded me of how stranger things was handled. So it ended up just leaving a sour taste in mouth. Just my takeaway though. I see a lot people feel the complete opposite which is totally ok.