Greylock

When watching Greylock for the first time, I remember being silent during the ending scene. Without spoiling anything, director Renzo Montoya reels in the audience with his color palette from start to finish. His emphasis on the bleak physical world the character (Anthony) is in, tied together with all of his person-to-person interactions as he tries to adapt to civilian lifestyle; we as the audience are brought in closer with the character himself. By the end I felt the emotional roller coaster that had built up inside of me, and I felt at ease just as Anthony did.

Renzo Montoya's direction of the main character Anthony is personable and meaningful. Whether Anthony was at work, alone at home, or trying to retrace his steps to see where he went wrong, his emotional performance kept me invested. The sense of direction that Renzo Montoya has in this early stage of his career is very hard to ignore. He takes the surrounding world and not only places the characters in these locations, but makes the locations themselves feel like characters in this film: Open desolate fields of nothingness is the location when Anthony is alone with his thoughts. Or walking in the middle of a chaotic freeway, we see Anthony is in the middle of his Army and civilian life consequences. The locations play a huge part of the emotion of the scene.

Greylock is a fantastic work of cinema and it deserves the praise it gets at all of the festival screenings. Excited to see the director's future work from here.