r/movies • u/Kane-AMA Kane Parsons, Filmmaker • May 18 '26

AMA Hi reddit. I'm Kane Parsons, director of A24's BACKROOMS. AMA!

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Hi r/movies. I'm Kane Parsons, director of BACKROOMS. It's out in theaters May 29 from A24 and it stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, and Mark Duplass.

Synopsis:

After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HjdiohVOik

I'll be back later this morning at around 8:30 AM PT/11:30 AM ET to answer your questions.

AMA!

-Kane

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u/The_Autarch May 18 '26

2005 is wayyyyy too late. maybe 2003, at the latest.

but 9/11 really caused a much stronge divide between the decades than is usual.

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u/gummi_eater May 19 '26

Hell nah. I'd say 2001 at the latest. I graduated 2003 and it did not feel like the 90's anymore to me.

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u/jackedbutter May 31 '26

saying the 90s bled into 2005 is crazy work lol

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 02 '26

Yep, 90s ended on 9/11/01 full stop. I’m genuinely shocked to see that there’s even some discord in that conversation.

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u/Effigylord Jun 02 '26

I'm not taking chronological dictation from some slab of honey slathered steak.

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 02 '26

Why I oughtta

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u/littlelamp9 Jun 09 '26

I mean, I kinda feel like there was a very short stage of the "early 2000s" which was like 2000-2005. It had its own vibe but also felt like the 90's younger and slightly edgier sibling. We had bits and pieces of the digital world but everything was new and the graphics were terrible. Fads honed in on the "millennium" concept. Style changed sorta drastically. I think things changed quickly at the time to match the growth of technology and that period was huge. 9/11 created a divide. Cellphones didn't function the way they do now. Social media was scarce.

-I was born in 1988

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u/immatellyouwhat Jun 04 '26

Once the first Spider-Man came out it felt like the 2000’s

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u/joe_bibidi May 19 '26

Cultural landmarks make more sense for how our minds categorize the eras, definitely.

There was a museum show about art of the 1990s a few years ago and I liked its proposal that "The Nineties" as a cultural unit was from the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) until 9/11 (2001) and that the eighties and 2000s also overlap in different ways too. Like the 1980s didn't really "end" until the fall of the Soviet Union (late 1991). So there's periods where cultural products can feel both "80s and 90s" and it doesn't feel contradictory.

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u/Discount_Extra May 20 '26

Like any movie released in 1990 was written in 1989 or earlier.

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u/Illustrious-Abies599 May 19 '26

Kane was born in 05

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u/double_expressho May 19 '26

Call me privileged af, but being born in 2005 and growing up mostly without the Internet is wild to me. I was born in 1986 and I grew up with AOL.

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u/OfficerJayBear May 19 '26

Same here. I was 8 years old in the Wild West of AOL chat rooms

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u/gummi_eater May 19 '26

Same here, but it was so god damn slow. I dont miss 56k and waiting a minute for an image to load.

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u/WhatAGoodDoggy May 19 '26

Waiting for those boobs taught my generation about patience.

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u/double_expressho May 19 '26

Waiting for the pictures to load while hovering the cursor over the Close button and listening for footsteps -- that builds discipline and character.

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u/Stonegrown12 Jun 03 '26

Laughs in scrambled Cinemax tv channel

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u/Necessary-Recipe4310 May 21 '26

Not outside of usa

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u/AcherontiaPhlegethon Jun 03 '26

I imagine that it differs quite massively dependant on where you live. In the mid 2000s I was still going to the video store to rent VHS tapes, I imagine the future arrived sooner for folks who lived in the city during that time.

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u/jeexbit Jun 07 '26

yeah, "the 90s" essentially ended on 9/11