Who is who's prisoner

Carli 2022-03-21 09:01:07

A rare crime suspense drama, I have forgotten how long I haven’t been in contact with a movie that can only be described as shocking. The 153-minute film makes people feel that it is not procrastinating at all. Various details and doubts are used to push the plot. To the climax, the movie is still full of suspense until the end. Although I have been involved in this type of movie for a long time, this movie has successfully deceived me. I suspect that everyone, even schizophrenia, will not be ruled out, but in the end I still did not guess. In the end, those snakes, mazes, and fancy things are more common. Although they seem to have nothing to do with the suspects and their respective plots, they are fragmented, but they still have a certain blindness effect and increase the suspense of the story. It wasn't until the end of the movie that all these doubts were cleared up and connected together. The story progressed layer by layer. It can be seen that the director's grasp of the overall situation is too stable, and it makes people feel suffocated.
Just looking at the shooting technique, you know that this movie is unusual. At the end of the movie, Loki is carrying anna in a rainy night. The rain drops on the windows and the headlights and police lights shine on the car. Is it a feeling of surging heart at this moment? The use of long lenses and attention to details. Several shots of flashlights and switching lenses in dark places make people feel that the level of photography is too high. I don’t know if it is because of the weather in the film. The film photography has a sense of coldness and solemnity. , The soundtrack is rarely used, but it sets off a depressive atmosphere. When I watch it, my chest is always stuffy
. Renhal still feels a little unmovable, maybe his character is this kind of expressionless type, but the temperament is still coming out, a little plump, Maria Bello also shines, Terrence Howard Good soy sauce.
In fact, after Keller kidnapped Alex, this film has been sublimated to a higher level. It is no longer as simple as an ordinary suspense film. The film is more about exploring when a person loses his rationality. The choice between the law and the law reminds me of Ben Affleck’s 2009 directorial debut "The Missing Baby". It also talks about the moral issues and blurred boundaries caused by the child’s disappearance. When upholding the law, What have we lost? What will we get in the part of upholding morality? The Jones family used to be a happy family, but after losing their beloved son, in order to avenge the injustice of society and God, they chose to kill those children. After the daughter disappeared, Keller changed from a kind father to a kind father in order to obtain information. The kidnappers, the priests and the confessors in the basement, the identity of the "prisoner" interchanged among them, and it became extremely vague. The irony is that Keller not only embarked on the path of imprisoning others, he also fell into Jones dug a hole and became her prisoner. At the end of the film, the whistle sounded. Loki thought he had auditory hallucinations twice, but he still attracted his attention, but at this moment the film ended, we don’t know whether he was rescued or not. , But there are only two results facing him, one is to die in a pit dug by Jones, and the other is to become a prisoner of the law. The film also involves a certain amount of religious content, but this part feels dispensable and can add a part of mystery, but this technique has been used to bad. Whenever Keller lynched Alex, he would pray to God for forgiveness, but he himself got deeper and deeper in this pit. He didn't know that doing evil in the name of love would not be forgiven.
Many people complained that the length of this film is too long. I think it is not unreasonable to have such a length, because it is not unreasonable to have such a length, because every detail and lens seem to be irrelevant to the plot, but it can achieve a transition. The role of the movie is not too compact, but it has a steady rise.

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  • Beulah 2022-03-23 09:01:08

    Four and a half stars, close to the story of "Missing" (1956) and the detection of "Citizen X" and "The Zodiac", the plot is deep while maintaining the tension of the audience, the setting of the scene and the suspense technique complement each other. The concept of "prisoner" does not only exist between the kidnapper and the hostage, the father and the suspect, the priest and the admonisher all constitute the prisoner's relationship. On the other hand, it puts vague moral boundaries before it-devout religious believers degenerate into ruthless sinners.

  • Makayla 2022-03-23 09:01:08

    Alex was so miserable. After being kidnapped for so many years, he was suddenly imprisoned and beaten by a strange uncle! God, what did he do wrong?

Prisoners quotes

  • Keller Dover: He's not a person anymore. No, he stopped being a person when he took our daughters.

  • Captain Richard O'Malley: You think this is gonna lead you to the bodies? Cause I sure as shit don't.

    Detective Loki: Do me a favor, captain. Go fuck yourself.