High-Rise 2015

Drama High-rise bases on the story of the eponymous dystopian novel by James Graham Ballard. The plot revolves around a young man living in London named Robert Laing. After receiving a promotion and larger increase in pay, Dr. Laing moved to a new apartment. He does not even know how will change his life. Magnificent High-Rise in an unusual style wins the main character, who at first sight falls in love with the building and its exterior serenity. However, the seemingly quiet building hides behind its walls intrigues that gradually make the residents of the upper and lower floors of the real enemies. Robert learns gradually about all this, getting acquainted with the neighbors. However, the full revelation for him is acquainted with two people: an architect Anthony Royal and inhabitant of one of the lower floors – Richard Wilder, who is trying to make a documentary about the social hostility and confrontation between classes. He takes the relationship of home residents as the basis, among which we can find a starving unemployed and moneybags languishing in the luxury. The voltage amplifies after hours of unplanned power outage only on the lower floors. Conflict increases. Against this background, Robert has to choose what problems closer to him: interruptions in the supply of electricity or salted salmon roe…