"With a fluid, probing camera that continually defies expectations, Castillo creates a taut narrative that leaves his audience
thoroughly entranced and equally shaken… heralds Chris Castillo as a bold and innovative filmmaker with a vision as
broad and compelling as his obvious talents."
David Maquiling
| The Sky Is Falling: On The Film "The film is heavily influenced by Roman Polanski's Repulsion and Peter Weir's
The Last Wave. I still remember the first time I saw Repulsion and some of
the visuals and the feel of that film has remained with me through the years.
Meanwhile no other film has matched the metaphysical feel of impending
doom on The Last Wave and I wanted to bring that suffocating feeling into
my film.
When I was deciding on what film to make, I wanted something personal in
a way where I can identify with it even though I have never really been
inside the core of the subject. I wanted to touch on the slow disintegration
of a person in which madness and reality collide. There is a thin line between
those two worlds and I feel that once in awhile we do cross over into madness
but we just do not realize it. An example would be creativity. It can almost be
equated with madness. One begets the other. The film follows Angelica's slow
burn descent into the life of a person who we do not know and are
uncomfortable in knowing but we can see ourselves in her and feel what she
is going through. In the end, I want the audience to start thinking and try to
figure out which is reality and which is a part of her fragmented mind."
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