u/Tiananmen__Tesseract

I've watched Backrooms yesterday and what I saw is a social commentary on the negative sides of accepting yourself wholly without any external confrontation. Just after Clark accepts himself in such way that denies all further self work he is instantly killed by the part of himself that he tried to live with.

In the second scene inside the backrooms, when they are role playing the home incident, Clark is a bit better as he is not confrontational instantly, contrary to the first time during the therapy. He says he's sorry first. The therapy was working, bit by bit, by sightly progressing through Clark's anger, entitlement and miscommunication. Clark, by renouncing the process and trying to simplify his situation, chooses his disorder as his way of life and is destroyed. Metaphorically, the healthy and agentic presence, the full him, gets eaten by the sad, craving and aggressive monster.

This way, "still life" represents no change at the level of personality.