@thefilmforyou: Liminal spaces in films/TV shows are transitional, empty environments that create a feeling of unease and psychological transformation. The word "liminal" comes from the Latin limen, meaning "threshold." In cinema, these spaces exist between "what was" and "what comes next," stripping away a location's familiar purpose and leaving audiences with a sense of disorientation. Modern examples can be seen in works such as ‘Severance’, with its endless sterile office corridors, ‘Squid Game’, which places contestants in vast, dreamlike spaces detached from reality, ‘Exit 8’, where players wander an endlessly repeating underground passageway, and ‘Backrooms’, which transforms empty, monotonous rooms into a source of psychological dread. Each uses liminal spaces to create an unsettling feeling of being trapped between one state and another. #liminalspaces #backrooms

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