Here's what it's like to watch another great recent film, The Prisoner. So to use another title, Everyone is a prisoner, for this movie.
"The Prisoner" is a murder story: what happens between two girls, their parents, the police, and their kidnappers after they are kidnapped. The story finally goes to the ending of the perverted series of kidnapping child criminals, which is a typical crime and psychological thriller mode, and has a strong "holding power" for the audience. But that's not what I'm talking about.
The protagonist of the movie is neither a policeman nor a criminal, but the father of the kidnapped girl, played by Uncle Hugh Jackman. The disappearance of his daughter has made him a paranoid and violent private criminal. At some point you will start to feel less sympathetic to him, but you will deeply understand the predicament he is in. In the end, he who imprisoned others was imprisoned again. Even when he came out of the cellar, he was still a prisoner, a prisoner of his inner demon.
Another solid character is the detective played by Jake Gyllenhaal. He came out in a lonely way, and that loneliness stayed with him. The deep sense of powerlessness in the face of the crime made this depressed man like a trapped beast, until it finally exploded when the suspect was interrogated. He chased the murderer, but the closer he got, the more tormented him. He is not a prisoner, locked in the evil of human nature. (Gyllenhaal, the handsome guy in the movie, wears a shirt all the time, and the neckline is buttoned all the way down. I believe it's a small but important detail about his inner world.)
Although the movie title's "prisoner" "The two words, on the surface, point to the kidnapped and imprisoned children, and the demented children imprisoned by the violent lynchers in the wall, but the film's perspective is hardly devoted to how they were imprisoned, but to those around them who are free in body and completely trapped in mind. people.
Everyone is a prisoner, and the coldest fact is that everyone has love. When people love, they will be vulnerable, they will be trapped, and they will not be able to escape. Even the pervert's motive for child abuse comes from love. So very speechless.
The movie has a good ending. The police detective is on the top of the cell, and he hears the whistle from the cell in a trance, and the movie stops abruptly here. We are willing to think of a good ending: those who are trapped will eventually be freed, and those who are injured will always be healed. People always have to carry their love and go on, although sometimes they will fall into the abyss.
This is a dark and cold film that directly points to the darkness, fragility and bestiality of the human heart. Don't watch it if you're not in the mood to watch it, but you'll miss out on great performances by Jackman and Gyllenhaal. In fact, Uncle Hugh not only has the triangular figure of Wolverine, but Gyllenhaal not only has the gentle eyes of Brokeback Mountain. This film and these two will surely win in the following awards season.
PS, this movie has an IMDB rating of 8.1, which is quite high. Canadian director Denis Villeneure, sorry I haven't seen any of his previous films. What are you talking about, such a good director that you have never heard of before, how can you get people to chase him? !
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