Damn…what a batshit crazy movie! Just the way I like it! This first-person documentary highlights how just a few bad events can literally turn a person into a crazy psychopath. The movie is also known as Descent into Darkness, and it’s every bit as real as it gets. I think there will be a lot of haters of this movie type who will simply classify it as either torture or gore porn. However, it’s very easy to see, at least from my point of view, that this movie helps highlight a real problem that people face every day. This can stem from either drug or alcohol addiction. As the movie highlights, it really doesn’t take much to drive a person into insanity. These events may seem like not a big deal at first, but they add up and feed into a person’s internal madness over time.

How best to describe this movie? I think it’s best viewed as seeing madness directly unfold from the conflicted point of view. Most people consider themselves to be normally behaving citizens. When we come across someone who clearly has lost their marbles, we rarely stop and think about how that person got to that stage of madness. Sorgoi Prakov gives us this view firsthand. As a journalist/director wanting to document and capture the “European Dream,” Sorgoi first travels to Paris to see what this beautiful city has to offer. Everything starts out normally. We see this goofy and dorky dude with cameras strapped to his body and head to film the experience. We quickly learn that Sorgoi has a drinking problem, and coupled with a few bad experiences with some people trying to steal his camera and whatnot, things start to spiral out of control. He is starting to run out of money in a foreign country, and his producers back home aren’t helping. It’s here that we start to see Sorgoi’s literal descent into darkness.

My take is that Sorgoi is a troubled person right from the beginning. The scene where his mother tells him over the phone that the police are looking for him in his home country, along with him admitting that what he “did” was an accident, clearly tells me that Sorgoi is on the run. The whole documentary thing was just a fantasy he created. There is no TV show back home. There are no producers financing the project. I don’t believe there is one scene where Sorgoi actually got in touch with the people backing the project; hence, him running out of money.

The unfortunate circumstances that Sorgoi finds himself in prior to him turning mad are what matter. His bout with alcoholism and drugs helps his downward spiral that much faster, and before we realize it, we see Sorgoi turn into a savage and beast, literally, due to no other choice. While other viewers will find many of the scenes towards the later half of the movie to be totally violent and disgusting, I thought that many of those crazy scenes were deliberately cut out. It’s left to the viewer’s imagination on how they think the events unfolded, and many a times, that’s more scarier than watching the scene unfold itself. Without a doubt, this movie is disturbing but one that highlights a growing problem in our society regardless of where we reside.