A really good take by @lewisgordon.bsky.social: perhaps this repetetive, empty aesthetics is very timid in the face of chaotic and unpredictable reality. Unified, repeating office space anxiety (Matrix, Fight Club ...) was already there in the late 90s.
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‘Backrooms’, the directorial debut by Kane Parsons, is going gangbusters at the box office, but is this just ‘prestige slop’?
