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'Backrooms' is Best Enjoyed As a Brutal Skewering of Millennial Cringe
(vincemancini.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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I thought it was pretty clear that Weapons was about the harm alcoholism has on children, and the filmmaker has said this is the case. I do remember thinking it was a school shooting metaphor, but I think that was just because that was what was in the news cycle at the time in America. The movie is Australian, right?
Weapons was directed by the Gallon of PCP guy from Whitest Kids U Know. If you want to understand the political perspective it was written from, WKUK is not subtle
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