This was super depressing for a plane ride. Andrey Zyangintsev is the master of doom and gloom. It is supremely bleak and uniquely Russian. A couple is going through a nasty divorce and neither parent wants to care for their twelve-year-old son, who runs away after overhearing their dispute over him. Adults are really the worst. Everyone is so bitter and awful. But it just gets more and more heartbreaking. They don't notice he's gone for two days. And I don't want to spoil the end, but I can assure you it's not a happy ending. Despite being a downer, it is really well done. It says so much about modern Russia without saying it out loud. As they search for their son, they come across these other cases of missing persons that are not even their son. What does that say about society?
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