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This should help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp-2M_3HwFU
A liminal space is some sort of locale that we usually only experience in states of transience, where staying is strange. Something that represents a border or state that you simply pass through between two more permanent states. Waiting for the bus at night. Your residence just before dawn. An empty mall or office building where there are only remanent signs of human presence. The in-dev version of a video game where characters are either absent or just placeholders.
gm_bigcity. All the Kane Pixels shit. A place where reality feels slightly altered, and your subconscious is ringing all of the alarm bells because existing there is just wrong.The subway station in the Matrix 3.
The ultimate liminal space that only exists to represent a place that is transitted through, yet is also infinite in space and time if you do not essentially possess the key to actually leave.
I guess arguably, any repeated timeloop type of movie essentially turns most of the world into a defacto liminal space.
But yeah, most literally, a liminal space is a space designed to be moved through, not inhabited.
A doorway or hallway vs a room.
A waiting room at a doctor's office, a queue at an airport.
A highway, bridge, or train tracks, vs wherever they are leading you to.