Backrooms: Round Two

Okay, saw it again, enjoyed it even more the second time around. I still don't know any of the lore or backstory or anything, but I feel like they give you everything you need right there in the movie. It's just presented in a very smooth, very well disguised way. Like, once you know where it's sort of going, watching it a second time gives you another chance to see all the pieces before trying to put it together into an idea.

It's like they say in the movie, it's like describing a dog to someone who's never seen a dog, and then asking them to draw it. That's what this movie is like. It's a Rorschach test. You have an idea of what it's suppose to be, but it's only as good as your brain can conjure up. That's what's so great about this movie. The first time I watched it, I was completely confused. I kind of understood what it was saying, but I wasn't confident that I completely got it.

This time I'm still not confident that I totally get what they wanted me to get, but I know I got something valuable from it. I got a new found appreciation for this kind of storytelling. It's something I'm very interested in now, thanks to this movie. While it's not the first or only liminal horror movie out there, I think it'll be a benchmark movie for a certain kind of horror. This is horror's 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's the kind of movie that asks audiences to trust them and then doesn't ever hold our hand or spoon feed us anything. It just trusts us to trust them to get the story our brains. And it does. Such as it is. Because like 2001, it's not about the story, it's about the experience. It's about the ideas behind the images and the sounds. It's about the theatricality of it. Because ultimately, this is a movie, and it's IS entertaining. It's just very smart and very interesting as well. I love this movie. I really do. I love much more this time around.

What a cool summer this one's turning out to be for movies.