Why Bear and Clark are WARNING SIGNS

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  @RetrøGeist0 · 1 month ago

  This year was revolutionary for the horror genre

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• MA

  @marceline8735 · 1 month ago

  As a failed architect, it’s kinda weird how Clark isn’t working as one to make money. He has a business selling furniture. Makes me think he didn’t pass arch school or did but didn’t get licensed. Hence, why he’s so bitter about his wife finishing law school. He’s worried she’ll succeed in something he failed at.

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  @unhinged.scp096 · 1 month ago

  Now one thing I disagree though, clark doesn’t truly find “safety” in the Backrooms. He retreats into them as an escape from accountability, turning the maze into a metaphor for avoidance and self destruction. Critics argue that his refusal to confront his failures makes the Backrooms less a refuge and more a prison of his own making.

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• KI

  @kiraPh1234k · 1 month ago

  Bear didn&apos;t want love. He explicitly avoided a woman he knew had feelings for him to pursue his ideal. <br>And even in the first scene with Bear, we see he has absolutely nothing in his practice speech to actually say about Nikki as a person. He only talks about how he can&apos;t stop thinking about her and wants her. <br>For Bear it was never about love nor Nikki

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• CR

  @CrunchyNorbert · 1 month ago

  Every plausible villain in fiction and in real life starts out as a wounded soul and the first tragedy in their arc is the death of who they could have been in they had the wisdom or the courage to see what they were giving up on. I need to see backrooms but I know in Obsession that when Bear opens Sarah&apos;s letter and screams in torment that&apos;s not performative, no one sees it, he knows for certain in that moment that he really failed and no matter what he does now he&apos;s already beyond redemption.

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• EM

  @emilyau8023 · 1 month ago

  I have met so many Bear and Clarks

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• JA

  @jackalzonearts · 1 month ago (edited)

  My mother and I watched the Backrooms movie together. She took me because I wanted to go see it in theaters, even if she wasn&apos;t going to understand it. She really didn&apos;t get the majority of the movie, but the parts that resonated with her were the scenes that pertained to therapy. Clark reminded her of my father and the way Clark reacts and behaves reminds her of the way my father reacted throughout couples therapy and the way she was treated by him. My father was the type to lash out at everyone due to stress over the financial situation. He avoids responsibility for his own actions. His sense of entitlement is just like Clark&apos;s.<br><br>My mother didn&apos;t like the movie much if at all, but many friends have said the movie was an absolutely necessary one for me and her to see, we ended up bonding a little bit because of it. Her response when I asked her about her thoughts was &quot;that was fucked up.&quot; It was best if she took me to see it than my father, because Clark would&apos;ve been an uncomfortable mirror for him to see on the screen.

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• RE

  @RelpyEstrada · 1 month ago

  I&apos;m so glad I wasn&apos;t the only one who saw the unintentional parallels between Clark and Bear. I find it funny how these two films took a similar archetype for their male leads came out at the same time LOLOL Amazing video man! as a filmmaker, this shit gets me going! Gave you a sub!

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• CO

  @colderman · 1 month ago

  Bear was always the problem. There was nothing wrong with Sarah and she actually wanted him. He got her killed.

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• JA

  @jayjuanwilliams8089 · 1 month ago

  These movies are very self reflective and I hate it but like it at the same time; they showed me that I need work but may never get to that point.

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• CR

  @cruzuballe8110 · 1 month ago

  What I liked about this analysis is that, at the beginning when you were comparing the 2, you said they were just &quot;normal people&quot;, and which they were, but it&apos;s funny to me how, characters who were &quot;normal people&quot; like spider man, Superman (in terms of upbringing), hulk, the flash, and so on, usually go on to become heroes.<br><br>But what&apos;s funny about villains or horror villains, is that a lot of them weren&apos;t normal. Most horror villains either had something wrong with them growing up, a trauma, possessed or cursed, fuck maybe they&apos;re some Eldritch entity that eats kids or planets, but a lot of them aren&apos;t regular every day people.<br><br>Bear, by the end of the movie, is a rapist and monster. He&apos;s taking advantage of this girl whom (when she&apos;s able to come through) asks him to put her out of her misery. And his response is &quot;what&apos;s so wrong with being with me?&quot; Before leaving and ignoring her plea.<br><br>Clark I wouldn&apos;t say is in the same extreme as bear because we don&apos;t know if Clark killed anyone, I mean he had that one chicks head in the fridge, but maybe captain Clark ate her and he kinda just..... kept her head (?), in any case, he&apos;s still a regular guy becoming a villain.<br><br>I&apos;d like to see more horror movies have regular people become villains to show that even regular, every day people can become monsters (maybe I haven&apos;t seen enough horror movies yet but still)

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• NO

  @nola281 · 1 month ago

  They both reflect the same problem, seeing an issue, knowing that it&apos;s an issue and not trying to work on it. Everytime I&apos;ve seen a massive issue and didn&apos;t try to work on it, it got worse. When i saw the issue and did something to change, it usually gets better over time. We all have issues we need to work on but they only get better when we work on them.

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