Film Review – Castle in the Ground

Addiction dramas are plentiful, but more and more recent productions have taken a closer look at the opioid crisis, presenting a current examination of broken lives as more powerful drugs take hold of seemingly innocent lives. “Castle in the Ground” is a Canadian production that isn’t interested in preaching to the audience, with writer/director Joey Klein offering a dire immersion into the world of pharmaceutical submission, plunging to the depths of grief and confusion to track one character’s struggle for clarity as he’s clouded by hopelessness. “Castle in the Ground” isn’t an easy sit, and it’s not a complete one either, as Klein prefers to offer a wandering sense of dramatic direction for his characters, electing to examine moment-by-moment choices instead of sticking to a grand arc of deterioration. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com