I do believe that the whole movie focuses only on the inability to take "no" for an answer. Gabino was obviously obsessed with Maty, and Maty was obsessed with her gym teacher. she could have been nicer to him while rejecting him but then this movie would not need be made. The only important role the artifact or "stone" plays is that it helped her when she got left for dead in the swamp, hence the name of the movie, she had to step on the stone under the swamp to keep her head above water. the moral of this story is that it is easier to get pressured by your peers when your heart is broken. If his friends hadn't ran into him after Maty tore his card, he wouldn't have thought of or participated in what they did to her. This would be a good movie to watch with your teenagers if it showed consequences of what they did, as it ended with her looking out the window at her sister making out with her gym teacher, rather than the boys who tried to kill her getting apprehended. As for the cat screams i believe they are also symbolic, as the whole thing started because of a kitten he was supposed to give her and then ends up hanging to torture her. It was hard not to watch this movie as the acting was excellent and the plot is something that can really happen in a small town like that.
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