The story follows Eva, a higher-up worker from an elevated bureaucratic world, and Oak, a fisherman who labours below and sends his goods upward to sustain the system. Eva’s crashing down from high above arrives in the film as a poetic exaggeration of her crisis. The skyfall results in the total annihilation of the shop floor boat below her. The fall is both narrative and symbolic. It represents the point at which a person who has tied their value to their ambition or career can no longer keep themselves airborne. Eva is someone who has spent too long working without a second glance at her surroundings. She ignores the wreckage she causes at first because she is still operating by the logic that got her there: keep the engine pumping. It is understandable after all. Hers is the same premise that gushes out of every creative proclamation or is read between the lines in an article formulating the story of today's success flourish and survival: you are either extraordinary or you are nothing. This film is about burnout. Like many other people, I am used to measuring myself through ambition, so the film was close to the bone. In the end, I think that gory familiarity provoked the project to become more than a simple cautionary tale about taking breaks.
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