Prisoners is a new film which just released on 20 September 2013. This is a thriller and crime film directed by Denis Villeneuve. The audiences of this movie should be 18 and above as it consists of violence, horror, politics, religion and counter-culture.
Hugh Jackman who starred in X-Men as Wolverine, Real Steel and Les Misérables.
Jake Gyllenhaal who acted in Prince of Persia.
From the left: Melissa Leo and Paul Dano.
Hugh Jackman is a carpenter who named as Keller in Prisoners. He attends a thanksgiving meal with his family at a house of neighbourhood. When the wives are preparing deer meat which hunted by Keller's son for dinner, Keller's daughter, Anna Keller and her best friend, Joy Birch want to have a walk outside. Two little girls saw a RV that had been parked in their small-town and Anna is trying to climb the RV. Her brother saw it and Anna was forced to get down from that RV. After the meal, Anna wants to find her red safety whistle which Keller bought for her. Keller thought that Anna and Joy have their siblings' accompany. Actually Keller is wrong. Two little girls vanish and they suspect that camper in the RV. Keller made a phone call to the police station.
Jake Gyllenhaal played the role as a famous detective who named as Detective Loki. He found the RV and catch the camper who is Alex Jones(starred by Paul Dano). Unfortunately, Alex Jones has IQ of 10-year-old and share no information about the two little girls. He has an aunt, Holly Jones(starred by Melissa Leo).
This is the scene where Detective Loki tries to ask the girls' whereabouts.
Keller asked detective Loki to arrest Alex Jones but they have no evidence to charge him up. Then, detective Loki asked his boss to arrest Alex Jones for another day. Yet, his boss refused to do so. The next day, Keller knew that the police let Alex Jones go. He is very angry and head to the police station.
Detective Loki is trying to calm Keller down.
Keller uses his own way to search for his daughter and her best friends. He kidnapped Alex Jones and used violent actions toward Alex Jones. It's a false lead and nobody knows if Anna and Joy are dead or alive. Besides, detective Loki is trying his best to find the girls out.
A dead body is found in an elderly priest's basement.
Then, a second young man, with a nervous manner and a haunted look, shows up at a vigil for the missing children and runs away into the night.
Detective Loki arrests him at his house and found out many luggages with snakes in it in this young's man house. Unfortunately, this young man commits suicide in the police station and leave an unfinish-maze. The investigation stops here.
Detective Loki doesn't give up. He tried to search for the girls based on the maze. The kidnapper is too smart to hide everything and detective Loki failed to search for any evidence. Joy Birch escapes from the kidnapper successfully but Anna Keller is still with the kidnapper. Keller knew who is the kidnapper according to what Joy told him before detective Loki. Keller rescued Anna alone without telling anyone, included detective Loki. He was asking to walk the hidden maze to rescue his own daughter.
When the police failed to find Anna Keller and Alex Jones, the boss asked detective Loki to inform Holly Jones. He knocks the door but Holly Jones does not open the door for him. Luckily the door is unlock. So, detective Loki goes in and search for Holly Jones. This is where detective Loki found Anna Keller.
The story of this film is not the meaning of the title. This film is telling you how is the people become a prisoner. This film absorbs and controls your attention with such assurance that you hold your breathe for fear of distracting the people on screen. Prisoners is not a straight forward movie. You will need to think after you watch the movie. Some scenes do not tell you the meaning and you might think that they are so random but actually not. They are all connected.
I did some research for this film. The director says: "I thought this was a
very powerful story that was saying accurate things about our society and our
relationship with violence and torture." He also explained that this film is like reading a poetry, the poet wouldn't tell you what to think but he has an intention behind the poetry. Other than that, he added: "What I feel
is, it's a movie about control and about what people do when they feel out of
control, and that the individual cannot work by themselves and the institution
cannot work by itself, the two have to work simultaneously, together, and
without that happening, there's total chaos. And you try to get as much control
of a chaotic situation, but ultimately, you need to rely on the institutions
around you."
I watched this movie few days ago with my dad. It's a nice movie for my dad and I. We love how to story goes. You should watch this movie too! :)
Here is the trailer of the movie.
Credit to Lourdes Ooi ♥
