An angry man was violently attacking another man, one punch, two punches, three punches... The opponent was bleeding.
The beaten man gradually lost consciousness, but the perpetrator still refused to give up.
What was it that made him so angry?
This scene is from the movie "Prisoner" starring "Uncle Wolf" Hugh Jackman .
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Prisoners
The film is starring Hugh Jackman , Jake Gyllenhaal , Paul Dano , Terrence Howard and others.
Famous director Dennis Villeneuve ("Blade Runner 2049", "Border Slayer") directed.
The origin of the story begins with a kidnapping case that happened five days ago .
(lots of spoilers ahead!!!)
That day is Thanksgiving.
The male protagonist, Keller (Hugh Jackman), takes his family to a friend's house in the same block to prepare for a lively festival together.
The friend's house is the same as their family, with the same four people.
Especially the youngest daughters of the two families, Anna and Joey are about the same age and are very good friends.
The two little girls are innocent and lively, and have endless curiosity about the world.
An unfamiliar RV appeared in the old familiar community. Anna was very excited when she saw it. She was ready to climb on the roof of the RV.
Fortunately, my brother stopped him in time.
The elder brother heard the faint sound of music coming from the RV. It seemed that there should be someone in the car. In order to avoid conflicts, the elder brother hurriedly took Anna home.
After dinner, the adults chatted in the living room, and friends took out their favorite musical instruments on a whim and played.
The children also happily gathered around and sang their own version of "Jingle Bells", making the adults laugh out loud.
Adults laugh, children make trouble, the warmth and happiness at this moment are self-evident.
But no one thought that danger was already approaching them closely.
Not long after, the two children were arguing again, going to Anna's house to play to find her lost red whistle .
Thinking that it was not too far, the parents didn't care too much, they just told them to go out with their elder brothers and sisters.
But when they returned home, they found that the two little girls were gone.
The two little guys bypassed everyone and went out alone.
Friends' house, Anna's house, the park... The girls were not seen anywhere, and the other neighbors hadn't seen them either.
Where are the little girls?
Just when everyone was at a loss, suddenly, my brother remembered the unfamiliar RV he saw before, maybe the girls went there for fun.
But when everyone got there, the RV was long gone.
Father soon realized that something was wrong, and he quickly took out his mobile phone and called the police.
The person in charge of this case is the town police officer Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal).
After the police passed the investigation, they quickly locked a white RV parked by the forest, and Officer Rocky decided to arrest the suspect in person.
The owner of the RV is called Alex . His parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by his aunt's family.
My uncle ran away from home after a big quarrel with my aunt 5 years ago and has not returned.
Now only Alex and his aunt remain.
During the arrest, Alex tried to flee, a move that made police even more suspicious.
But no matter how the police tried to interrogate him, or even strictly interrogated him, he would not open his mouth.
On the other hand, the police did not find the DNA of the two little girls and the traces of fighting in his car.
Did the police really arrest the wrong person?
Time passes by, and if no valid evidence can be found, the suspect will be released.
What is even more surprising to everyone is that, through testing, the suspect Alex's IQ is only about 10 years old .
It is absolutely impossible for a person with a low IQ to kidnap two little girls and hide them all by himself.
But besides him, who else?
The child's parents were devastated, and they pinned all their hopes on the police.
But according to the clues and evidence currently available, it is impossible to directly identify Alex as the kidnapper.
Looking at the sad parents in front of him, Officer Loki is determined to bring the murderer to justice.
He went door-to-door to investigate, and no suspects were spared.
Unexpectedly, the clues of the kidnapping case were not found, but there were unexpected gains.
He found a mummified body in the basement of the priest's house in the town.
Officer Loki questioned the origin of the deceased priest, but the priest didn't even know his real name.
The priest told the police officer that the man "showed off" to him that he had killed 16 children. The priest advised him to stop, but he said he would kill more children.
One thing is not settled, another thing is up!
Is there any connection between the two cases where the victims are also children?
After 48 hours, the police had to release Alex as required by law.
Anna's father, Keller, was so angry that he threw Alex to the ground in front of police and reporters.
Seeing this, everyone quickly pulled Keller away to prevent him from hurting people by mistake.
But at this moment, Alex said to Keller in a voice that only he and Keller could hear:
"They cried when I left"
This time, Keller was even more emotional. He was like a furious beast, trying to pounce on Alex and tear him apart.
Keller told the police what Alex had just said to him, but no one believed him.
Yeah, who would believe what an angry father said.
Even if he asked Alex again, he would never admit it.
Keller became more and more disappointed with the police. He believed that Alex was the murderer, and if he dragged on his daughter, it would only become more and more dangerous.
Listening to the cry of his wife's collapse, his last line of psychological defense completely collapsed.
Keller squatted at the door of Alex's house with a gun and stayed there for most of the night, and finally squatted to Alex who was out to walk the dog.
While walking the dog, Alex hummed "Jingle Bells" written by the little girls.
This time, Keller firmed his guess even more.
He kidnapped Alex by force and locked him in another old house.
In the days that followed, he tortured Alex to extract a confession.
Alex was bloodied and confused, but he still didn't say anything.
Keller poured hot boiling water from the beginning to the end again ... The method is extremely cruel.
He will never give up until he finds out his daughter's whereabouts.
The friend who also lost his daughter couldn't bear to see Alex's tragic situation. He wanted to persuade Keller, but the friend thought of his daughter again.
He acquiesced to Keller's brutality and covered him.
Under the test of life and death, the beast in the deepest part of human nature was completely released.
This small bathroom has become a purgatory on earth.
The two fathers who lost their daughters are like judges from hell, punishing Alex privately.
The police did not relax either. Officer Loki wanted to use the child murderer mentioned by the priest as an entry point to see if he could find clues.
By visiting the families of the victims of the year, he found that the two child kidnapping cases, separated by several years, had the same key clue .
It's that white car.
If it is true as the priest said, then the murderer of this kidnapping must be related to the mummified corpse in the basement.
When residents of the town learned of the disappearance of the two little girls, they spontaneously walked to the door of their house to pray for them.
At the scene, Officer Loki found a man looking around furtively. After seeing the police, he ran away in a panic.
Officer Loki hurriedly chased after him, but was still thrown away by the man. After returning to the police station, he immediately made a wanted man.
When a friend saw the news that the police wanted a mysterious suspect at home, he became more and more disturbed, and he suspected that the real murderer was someone else.
But at this time, Keller couldn't listen at all, and still went his own way.
It didn't take long for the wanted suspect to be found.
The suspect often went to the town's children's clothing store to buy a house, but there were no children in the family.
When the police came to his residence, they found important clues.
Found a large box full of bloody children's clothes in the house, and some drawing paper with some maze diagrams on it.
The police took the suspect back to the police station and called the Kellers to identify the objects.
When Keller saw one of the bloody socks, he couldn't hold it any longer.
In order to save his daughter, he annihilated his humanity.
From a devout believer to a cold-blooded and cruel thug, the only thing that supports him is the hope that his daughter Anna is still alive.
Officer Loki couldn't hide his anger. He walked into the interrogation room and beat the suspect violently.
Other police officers rushed in and tried to pull him away. In a panic, Officer Rocky's gun was accidentally snatched by the man.
The man said nothing, put the gun in his mouth, and chose to commit suicide.
The thread is broken again...
Keller returns to the old house and decides to "execute" Alex.
At this moment, Alex, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke up.
"They are in the maze"
And that "I'm not Alex" .
Keller didn't understand what a maze was, and he even asked Alex's aunt, but couldn't get an answer.
At this time, the police have made great progress. What was dug up in the suspect's courtyard was not a human body, but a child model.
Officer Loki remembered the maze graphic necklace on the mummy in the basement and the maze on the blueprint.
For comparison, they are exactly the same.
More and more characters are involved in the case, and the case is more and more complicated.
But before he could wait for him to investigate carefully, the hospital called and one of the girls was found.
The adults asked her where have you been all these days? What about Anna?
The little girl just said "you've been there" .
Keller understood, he finally understood the phrase "I'm not Alex".
"Alix" who was imprisoned by him for many days and a suicide suspect, in fact, like his daughter, was kidnapped since childhood.
He turned back to Aunt Alex's house.
Facing Keller's questioning, Alex's aunt stopped pretending and raised a gun to threaten Keller to drink the brown liquid from the bottle.
Otherwise, you don't even want to see your daughter.
Without saying a word, Keller picked up the bottle and drank.
Then she took Keller to the back of the house, where there was a dark passage under one of the junk cars.
She told Keller to jump in, and Keller still did.
Then the aunt sealed the secret passage, and Keller was in the dark tunnel, holding her daughter's red whistle and praying that she could go home safely.
At this time, Officer Loki finally arrived.
He found the necklace in the photo of his aunt's husband, it was the labyrinth.
It turned out that my aunt's husband was the mummified corpse in the basement who had kidnapped and murdered 16 children.
Officer Loki realized something was wrong, he drew his gun and walked into the room.
She rescued the unconscious Anna at the last moment, and Anna was saved.
The aunt was shot dead in a fight with the police.
So far, the sensational kidnapping case has finally been solved.
Soon after, the police returned to the scene to sort out clues and bring them to justice.
Officer Loki heard a faint whistle, and he looked back, but there was nothing.
The whole film is over.
The Prisoner was filmed in 2013 and is the first American film directed by director Denis Villeneuve.
It's a noir suspense crime movie with a clear purpose and a gripping heart.
Cool atmosphere, long rhythm.
But there is no superfluous plot, and every detail is the clue and foreshadowing of the subsequent plot.
The beginning of the forest hunt, the confession of the priest, the lost red whistle of the daughter and the serial kidnapping murders many years ago...
The seemingly inconspicuous details in the film are woven together with the main story to draw a visual maze.
Only when you see the end can you find the answer and get out of the maze.
The conflict between law and human nature, human nature and belief in the film aggravates the feeling of depression in the film.
The viewing process of more than two hours is suffocating from the beginning to the end.
The human heart is dark and fragile, and extremely cruel and violent.
For her own selfish desires, Alex's aunt imprisoned and murdered countless innocent children;
In order to save his children, the father did not hesitate to commit atrocities to the low-intelligence Alex;
In order to maintain the divine right, the priest can imprison the murderer in the basement "in the name of God" and let him accept the judgment of God.
And the police who maintain justice will also torture prisoners in a desperate situation.
Everyone is imprisoned in the labyrinth of human nature, bearing its cause and effect.
Begins with "Captivity" and ends in "Captivity".
At the end, it came to an abrupt end , like Keller, who was locked in a secret passage and undiscovered, killing all his hopes.
He can never know whether his daughter is safe or not, and can only be imprisoned in a dark tunnel with unease and regret, repenting of his own sins.
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