The film "Stone" directed by Vyacheslav Kaminsky is a Russian thriller. For viewers, he is mainly interested in the fact that the hero was played by the popular comedian Sergei Svetlakov. Many decided to go to the picture just to see how Our Russia and Comedy Club member cope with the serious role of the negative character.
Instruction manual
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The plot of the film is simple, but rather scary. The main character, Peter, whom Svetlakov plays, comes to the playground in a shopping center and abducts a boy - the son of a major businessman who owns this center. He takes the child to his mansion on the banks of the river, hides it in the basement and waits. Meanwhile, the boy’s mother and father rush around in a panic, unable to find the missing son.
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After some time, Peter calls a distraught businessman. And then it turns out that the kidnapper is not at all interested in a ransom. He says that he will return the boy safe and sound only in one case - if the father is ready to exchange his life for the life of the child. That is, a maniac makes a man condition to commit suicide in a day in the very center of the city.
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Thus, the father is faced with a terrible choice. But not only he - until the very end of the picture, the viewer does not know what the boy’s mother will do. She can kill her husband in the name of saving the child. I must say that, although not immediately, the couple understand that the goal of the criminal is to make them enemies, while their son is threatened with death.
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The criminal constantly calls and hints that with his deed he wants to cut some knot of fate. The businessman is feverishly trying to remember that he did bad things to anyone, why this story happened to him. Gradually the motives of the kidnapper become clear. It turns out that everything is caused by a childhood injury - the hero was brought up in an orphanage, was humiliated by teachers, was raped. And now, in some strange way, he wants to restore justice.
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However, not only the kidnapper has mental pathologies, but also the victim - the boy’s father. Moreover, the latter was so from the very beginning. The director leads the audience to the idea that both characters from the very beginning behaved in such a way that they inevitably fell into such a situation that was hopeless for everyone. The unexpected ending of the film makes you think and allows you to see the elements of an art house in the picture.
