I think that, like Easy Rider, if the movie had been better then people would praise the film for the wild way that it was made.
Much like Easy Rider, there was a lot of drug use on set.
Ernie Garcia, who co-starred with her in Angkinin Mo Ako, said she become suicidal: during their shooting of the film, Strada covered her arms with bandages, apparently because she had cut her wrists in one of several suicide attempts.