Chris Ryan

So just to see somebody who's like bringing this technology along in a way that isn't Big Jim style, where it's like only a few people have access to the Peter Jackson toy box, like this is sort of like what I thought was going to happen when Sean Baker and Steven Soderbergh were like, we make movies on iPhones now.

Right.

But now it's like happening.

Now it's like, oh, you could do this with like open source software and an iPhone.

You could make something with your friends.

Very cool experience over the weekend.

I mean, I think on, I'm sure you guys, you guys do do this and me and Andy do this on the watch where we sort of bemoan the death of monoculture and the idea that there is like this thing that everyone is experiencing at the same time and having the same conversation or about or different conversations, but a conversation about.

And I was hanging out with my wife's girlfriend.

best friends daughters this weekend and they were so excited for Backrooms like they're all teenagers and first of all you look at the numbers on these videos and you're talking 15 50 million you know like millions and millions of people have watched this and they were so invested in it as an idea

and were nervous about the movie part.

When you say they were invested in it as an idea, like... Because I don't think they make a distinction between this and, like, check out this, like, static shot of an abandoned pizza hut.

Like, I think that there is, like, an appreciation or an interest in...

vibes you know and certain like motifs online that people just pass the time and i didn't know that you can play backrooms on roblox i didn't know that there were so many like video games that take place in backrooms and it really is kind of like an open source like people can mess around with this and this is his iteration of it that's why i say it's like a fable it's like anybody can adopt this

But they were fully unaware of what the mythology of it was.

But I was fascinated to be like, oh, you're not worried about whether or not...

like, Back Rooms makes any sense, you're worried about whether Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renata Rhimes would make any sense in Back Rooms.

Like Amanda, I kind of...

I kind of wish I hadn't now, because I think the experience of the film...

The thing that they got so right is there is never really a moment where they're like, this is what this is.

Yes.