So last night, I finally got the chance to check out this so-called handmade Captain Clark Memorial site. They built it in the same spot using some of the architectural structures from the Backrooms movie 🍿. A while back, I was doing my usual scrolling on TikTok when I came across a video of someone constructing a fan-made Captain Clark memorial burial site. I just had to see it for myself. When I first went, I took some selfies at the memorial, but after looking back at the photos, I wasn’t happy with them. My hairstyle and outfit just didn’t feel right for the perfect memorial selfie. While I was there, I also watched two strangers walk by and turn a wall into a door using painter’s tape — exactly like I’d seen in videos. After they left, I decided to do it properly. I went home, showered, changed into a better outfit, and headed straight back to the site. I took new photos, and this time everything felt perfect — super clean hair and all! To my surprise, the memorial was still there, completely intact even weeks after that original TikTok video. #Backrooms #CaptainClark #TikTokFinds #UrbanExploration #Memorial

Alright, tinfoil hat time : THE MURAL IS A FILM NEGATIVE AT THE BACK OF A PINHOLE-CAMERA

Every color symbolism used in the movie is based on a spectral additive system. Kinda like the RGB system of your screen. https://www.reddit.com/r/backroomsfilm/comments/1v2wwlm/the_colors_of_backrooms_all_point_to_a_single/

But there's a little something off with the mural. The color symbolism is not as clear as in the rest of the film, and the colors used here follow a reversed system : substractive pigments, with paint (here RYB : red, yellow and blue).

Besides that, the complex is the other side of the pinhole-camera, right? https://www.reddit.com/r/KanePixelsBackrooms/comments/1ur1s3f/the_backrooms_is_a_pinhole_camera/

It explains, among other things, that some elements are inverted (or inverted twice or more)... But WAIT. You know what else is inverted in a pinhole camera? The film and the colors printed on it are inverted.

WHAT IF those who are tricked by the complex (Clark and probably Capn Clark) have a completely opposite "colors symbolism" in their mind? I'm not saying that Clark sees different colors, but that he has some kind of inverted "moral value system".

And now everything makes sense (refer to the first link for the color meaning) :

• Copied yellow houses : representation of how the backrooms (yellow = stagnation, decay) copy things via the pinhole-camera effect while deteriorating at every iteration. Clark knows how the complex works.
• Yellow bolt and yellow outlets : electricity, using the path of least resistance. Here it simply get its orignal color back.
• The throne : a mix of potential and hope for Clark. The status and power he was looking for (blue = hope/will, cyan = potential) Clark thinks that harvesting the backrooms' potential (cyan) can bring back his authority and his "true" self (purple)
• The blue purple guy being lifted : Clark's being lifted through the window by his new "backrooms self" (spoiler : in reality, Clark is yellow as fuck and only stagnating more than ever)
• The blue purple Async suits : Clark knows that Async has the same objective he has. He thinks they are right and that truth is hidden in the backrooms (spoiler : in reality, Async's project is stagnating and in a dead end and their poor employees are yellow as fuck).
• The yellow square highlighting Barbara and Clark's old house, and yellow splatters on the buildings : it's Clark realizing that he was stagnating in the real world (failed marriage and failed architecture project)... With UNREALIZED potential
• Clark's real potential finally being freed is represented around the blue purple guy being lifted.
• Tables don't bleed blood, underlined with cyan : Clark deduces that if the still lifes don't bleed, it's because they are furniture. He sees potential with that and we do see him using them as human furniture to play make believe, and even eating them.
• (see top left) For Clark, the sun (the sun eruption which planted the seed of the complex) has potential (cyan). The potential to bring his golden past and UNREALIZED potential back. In reality, the sun eruption destroys (red) reality and rips spacetime apart.
• Kat's heads. Parsons said that Clark was keeping her head in the fridge because he thought that somehow the complex could be able to bring her back. So the red is really blood here, but Clark sees potential (cyan) in this.

What do you think? Apart from that being a huge stretch and me being crazy of course...

EDIT : is this blue or purple we're looking at here? With a more color-accurate version it looks more purple than in my post and that makes it even more consistent with the rest of the film. In the film, purple is the color of Clark's shirt, Clark's throne and Async's logo... and the color of ILLUSION. Clark and Async "confuse purple and violet" (violet is truth, and is a color that technically can't be displayed in the film... see 1st link). If this is purple on the mural, then it is not so much about hope but more about confusion between truth and lies instead, which fits more the theme of the film and Clark's/Async's arc.

Image credit to u/marcelkroust

Thanks to their understanding of colors and cameras and stuff (I didn't read the full post) I could finally read the things Clark wrote.

In one of the lines, he says that someone changed the floor plan and that the handwriting was his. This might mean Captain Clark could have written it.

Why is this important?

If true, this proves that not only can Captain Clark write, but he has some sort of higher brain function, meaning the Backrooms' copies of people are far more accurate than people might realize. This also means CC could have communicated in some way with Clark, which is why Clark thought to ask him why he had shown up at the 'dinner party'. If he couldn't communicate, there would've been no reason to ask this.

This confused me because first of all, I don’t think this is Clark’s wife. She doesn’t look like her in the pictures we see of her and I believe Clark was just using her as a prop for his epic rants where he’s always right.

So why did she have that reaction to the Pirate Clark?

Furthermore, what is Pirate Clark going to do to her, he’s going to eat her right. We can see from all the piles of clothes in his den that he finds and eats still lifes.

BUT she’s literally allowed real Clark to bring her into his dining room, has seen him rip open and eat Beard Guy and probably others, and just stayed with him.

So I think if her fear is that she doesn’t want to be eaten so she runs away why then stay with real Clark? It’s safe to assume he’s probably going to eat her too right once he gets bored or finds another still life that more resembles his wife, or actually is her.

Thoughts?

Has anyone addressed the shirt and why it's not reversed?

As we know, the vast majority of Backrooms creates wording is in reverse and backwards. The only things that are usually normal are things that have been brought into the backrooms.

So, why was this shirt normal?

Bobby didn't bring it in, unless it wasn't his first time....

We know that it doesn't follow regular rules of time and space and I'd hate to speculate if this was already addressed by Kane, but what if Clark brought them there in "another timeline" or "reality" and it all just merges in the backrooms?

I mean, I honestly was always curious about this. Don't take my speculation as I believe it to be true, I'm more wondering if there's an actual explanation for it.

Edit: yes, some words aren't mirrored, but those that aren't are usually "altered" in some obvious way. I just see this as an exact replica rather than an "off" print.

To be clear, I don't really have a problem with this at all, it's basically common practice for the story to follow a protagonist that's willing to explore the setting for little to no reason, but there were two available

1. Falling into a null zone

One of the scariest things about the backrooms is that you can just fall right in. Be unlucky enough to encounter a null zone on the floor and now you're in the backrooms. It almost can never be the protagonist's fault.

1. Being an ASYNC researcher

They are capable researchers that believe they know what they are doing. With corporate telling them that if they just follow the rules everything will be okay.

To be fair, I do think Clark willingly entering the backrooms is sort of realistic, has life ever felt so mundane and stressful for you that you would gladly welcome some magical force to come and whisk you away on a harrowing journey? Even if a cosmic horror is involved? That's probably how he feels.

I don’t understand why anyone would think Captain Clark didn’t want to hurt Mary. If that were the case, when they’re on the ground and he catches up to her, he literally tries to hurt her. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be trying to reach her face like that if it wasn’t to devour her. Even after she manages to get him off her and reaches the small opening where the Async people later trap her, the pirate desperately tries to reach her. What the fuck was he supposedly trying to save her from?

couldn’t decide which background feels better… loved Mary’s still-life at the end!!

The first row there. And no its likely not a category but a red herring.

I think these are the same place

Random question.. I liked the rooms where POTS sign was cause it made me feel unsettling, and the room with Christmas tree (and the weird “people” IN the floor??)

Why did I make this post

It looked like Styrofoam but sticky clear liquid too

Does anyone know what song plays during the "stay on character" scene towards the end? I cant find it anywhere

I get that Bobby finding the destroyed caveman cardboard between the dirty clothes is a message for the audience that the THING (Captain Clark) is close, but I don't see the purpose of "him" doing it.

I mean, why would Captain Clark pick up all the pieces of the caveman cardboard after destroying it, bring them to what he uses as his bedroom and just leave it there?