The film "Prisoner" is a serious subject, and some people even wonder if anyone would want to watch it if it weren't for these two stars. Would this deter the director? After watching the film, I found that the director was very confident about the story of the relationship between the father, the police, the missing girl, the suspect (also a victim of serial abduction), the real murderer, and other characters. He probably wanted to express a story about facing evil. The story of what the good guys do, will people reminiscent of "Mystic River", "Zodiac", "Sustaining the Child", "Confession" (Japan) and other movies? These are not the genres of movies that confront the police and the robber. They are all feature films with suspense elements. The main highlight is the relationship between the characters and the transformation of the characters. Of course, the setting of the suspense is also very important. After thinking about it, I also found a question. Why do you rarely see movies like The Shining? Of course, this does not refer to horror movies like the "Call of Souls" or "Ghost Records" series, but "Blood Invasion". It's a different story to show a more realistic film reflecting on school bullying and violence through vampires.
The suspense plot of the film "Prisoner" is creative. First of all, you can see the perspective of the carpenter's father who is limited to the victim's white girl. The father identified a criminal suspect. The police said that he did not have enough evidence to delay his detention. It aroused the anger of the father and then secretly kidnapped the suspect, detained secretly, used lynching, and was cruel at every step. On the other hand, the suspect appeared to have the truth, but he could not tell the truth normally. The police had early He told the father that the suspect had only a 10-year-old IQ, had intellectual problems, and communication difficulties. However, the father did not consider these issues. The film then showed many plot turns. First, on the fourth day of the girl’s disappearance, a mourning ceremony was spontaneously carried out in the small town. The police found a suspicious mysterious man who molested a bear toy (at this time, the suspect People have been detained). Furthermore, the missing girl’s home was invaded. Third, the police finally found the mysterious man and found blood-stained children’s clothing and a large number of snakes in his home. When the police asked the father to identify the clothes, he still insisted that he secretly detained the suspect for the first time and had an accomplice, and it was by no means innocent. The police were also eager to solve the case and forced a confession of the mysterious man arrested. As a result, the suspect changed his name and committed suicide by shooting himself.
As the story unfolds, we all know that these two criminal suspects are not the criminals of the series of child abduction and disappearance cases. They are the victims of this case. Because of their childhood abduction, drug and mental devastation, their souls have suffered tremendously. There are disturbing manifestations of trauma, and they become suspects in the case due to inability to communicate normally or misbehaving. When he lost his daughter, faced with his broken wife, irritable son, Keller, the carpenter who had suffered the suicide of his father, was very obsessed with his own justice, and the police Loki slowly lost control in the face of the pressure of the family with the missing child. The climax of the story is that Carpenter Keller finally sees through the real murderer and breaks into the real murderer’s home alone. As a result, he falls into a trap. He voluntarily jumps into a hidden hole in order to save his daughter. When the murderer is really ready to kill the girl, the policeman Rocky rushes. When the real murderer drew his gun, Loki defended himself in time. The case came to light, but Keller was in the cave and no one noticed it. Because Keller used lynching to inflict huge damage on the suspect, the police thought he had escaped in fear of crime. The end of the film is more thoughtful. When all the people were evacuated from the scene of the crime, the policeman Rocky vaguely heard the sound of the whistle. This was what the girl was looking for before she disappeared... It can be guessed that Keller was rescued in the end.
The visual system of the film is relatively uniform. I chose a small town where people gather, and I chose to shoot in winter. The dry and cold atmosphere can further enhance the inner fear, while the night scene is arranged with a light surface and a light surface to interweave. The anxious feeling and suspenseful atmosphere of the mystery cloud when the mystery arises, these are the manifestations of the director's more authorial intentions for the film.
For the justice in their hearts, they did not calmly do bad things, how can they redeem it? The director is telling the story so seriously, but in the end, I still lacked some of the relief I had when watching "Virgin Spring". It was also a story of revenge for justice. Bergman gave a solution to justice and evil, and it was also the film’s place. It conveyed the hope that "salvation is easier to achieve".
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