pray for the best, but prepare for the worst
My favourite genres of films are thriller and comedy and Ive taken way too long but I've finally watched Prisoners today and damn. Damn its such a good film, I went to google reviews after watching the film and suddenly all these ideas hit me and i will discuss that later but this is what happens in the movie.
Two girls are missing/kidnapped after a Thanksgiving dinner between 2 families the Dovers and Birchs and Detective Loki is called in to crack the case. So Loki finds an RV that the girls were playing on and finds a man inside and takes him in for questioning. After interrogation, the man, Alex is said to have an IQ of a 10-year-old and so they let him go. Keller Dover, however finds this guy extremely suspicious cuz like if you are 10 how in the world are you able to drive a van? And Alex said 'they started crying when i left' right to Keller's face even though he denies saying anyth when Loki confronts him about it (THAT LIL SHIT) And so without the knowledge of the cops, Keller kidnaps Alex and tortures him hoping to get info of where the two girls are but to no avail. Other stuff happen but long story short it is revealed that the kidnapper is actually Alex's Aunt and Alex was her first hostage that she has been keeping and feeding LSD infused drinks to for 26 years, therefore stunting his mental growth. PLOT TWIST WOW and yes as aforementioned after reading reviews of the movie I found it very intriguing.
1) The parallels between Keller and Alex's Aunt. Driven to the point of helplessness and frustration, Keller goes batshit crazy going to almost heartless methods of torture towards Alex, even going to the extend of creating a closed compartment in the bathroom with no way of light entering and leaving trapping Alex inside while dousing him with scalding hot water or super cold water before forcing answers outta him. And in a way, he kinda becomes as bad as Alex's Aunt and how she kidnaps children and maybe he is aware of his gradual 'dehumanisation'??? or maybe he thinks his actions are justified but it really got me thinking, how far one would go for their kid. His wife on the other hand kinda juxtaposes his actions all she does is stay in bed and cry and weep like girl you need get yourself tgt and find your daughter. Well, in the end, since Alex is 'innocent', Keller prolly has to go to jail but i think he doesn't mind as long as he has his daughter back.
2) One thing i don't really understand is the introduction of this other character Bob who is seen as one of the suspects and he's really weird like he has suits filled with bloodied children's clothes (the blood is pig's blood) and SNAKES which again suggests that he might've been one of the kids kidnapped by Alex's Aunt but the weird thing is that he behaves like he is a kidnapper and it honk he believes he is one. According to one of the police officers, Bob is trying to recreate his own kidnap and he is too involved he cannot save himself from the abyss of his own mind and eventually shoots himself in the head with a gun. I didn't really get the point of including this character maybe just for the sake of twists and all but ok la quite interesting. weird dude anyway.
3) I don't think Alex has an IQ of a 10 year old if you ask me like there was a scene where he was seen torturing his dog maybe cuz his Aunt does that too or maybe he's just a psycho and another scene where he smashes the window to get a glass shard to try to escape his imprisonment like HOW WILL A 10 YEAR OLD DO THINK OF THIS??? nonsense right i wanna feel sorry for him but no he's a lil shit capable of conning poor kids for his Aunt
4) The ending of the movie made me so mad but it wasn't a bad ending tho
OVERALL AN EXCELLENT MOVIE KEPT ME AT THE EDGE OF MY SEAT FOR THE ENTIRE 2HRS 3O MINS
Two girls are missing/kidnapped after a Thanksgiving dinner between 2 families the Dovers and Birchs and Detective Loki is called in to crack the case. So Loki finds an RV that the girls were playing on and finds a man inside and takes him in for questioning. After interrogation, the man, Alex is said to have an IQ of a 10-year-old and so they let him go. Keller Dover, however finds this guy extremely suspicious cuz like if you are 10 how in the world are you able to drive a van? And Alex said 'they started crying when i left' right to Keller's face even though he denies saying anyth when Loki confronts him about it (THAT LIL SHIT) And so without the knowledge of the cops, Keller kidnaps Alex and tortures him hoping to get info of where the two girls are but to no avail. Other stuff happen but long story short it is revealed that the kidnapper is actually Alex's Aunt and Alex was her first hostage that she has been keeping and feeding LSD infused drinks to for 26 years, therefore stunting his mental growth. PLOT TWIST WOW and yes as aforementioned after reading reviews of the movie I found it very intriguing.
1) The parallels between Keller and Alex's Aunt. Driven to the point of helplessness and frustration, Keller goes batshit crazy going to almost heartless methods of torture towards Alex, even going to the extend of creating a closed compartment in the bathroom with no way of light entering and leaving trapping Alex inside while dousing him with scalding hot water or super cold water before forcing answers outta him. And in a way, he kinda becomes as bad as Alex's Aunt and how she kidnaps children and maybe he is aware of his gradual 'dehumanisation'??? or maybe he thinks his actions are justified but it really got me thinking, how far one would go for their kid. His wife on the other hand kinda juxtaposes his actions all she does is stay in bed and cry and weep like girl you need get yourself tgt and find your daughter. Well, in the end, since Alex is 'innocent', Keller prolly has to go to jail but i think he doesn't mind as long as he has his daughter back.
2) One thing i don't really understand is the introduction of this other character Bob who is seen as one of the suspects and he's really weird like he has suits filled with bloodied children's clothes (the blood is pig's blood) and SNAKES which again suggests that he might've been one of the kids kidnapped by Alex's Aunt but the weird thing is that he behaves like he is a kidnapper and it honk he believes he is one. According to one of the police officers, Bob is trying to recreate his own kidnap and he is too involved he cannot save himself from the abyss of his own mind and eventually shoots himself in the head with a gun. I didn't really get the point of including this character maybe just for the sake of twists and all but ok la quite interesting. weird dude anyway.
3) I don't think Alex has an IQ of a 10 year old if you ask me like there was a scene where he was seen torturing his dog maybe cuz his Aunt does that too or maybe he's just a psycho and another scene where he smashes the window to get a glass shard to try to escape his imprisonment like HOW WILL A 10 YEAR OLD DO THINK OF THIS??? nonsense right i wanna feel sorry for him but no he's a lil shit capable of conning poor kids for his Aunt
4) The ending of the movie made me so mad but it wasn't a bad ending tho
OVERALL AN EXCELLENT MOVIE KEPT ME AT THE EDGE OF MY SEAT FOR THE ENTIRE 2HRS 3O MINS
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