Rationale

THE BLIND SPOT is a psychological thriller that tells the story of Ricardo, a young man driven to a delusional, psychotic state through a lifetime’s experience of jealousy and status anxiety. We wanted to create a sense of unreliability in the audience’s mind, making them question whether what they see in the film is an accurate representation of events.
(Cut this?) Our intention was to show the main character, Ricardo, as a man who feels victimized by the society which surrounds him.
Our film was influenced by several films, notably Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010) in terms of representing on screen something that may or not be a shared experience, and Harron’s American Psycho (2000) in terms of a character whose insecurities and anxieties lead to violent fantasies.

The audience is left to question...