About Film Prisoners:
Production year:
2013
Country: USA
Cert (UK):
15
Runtime: 153
mins
Directors:
Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal,
Maria Bello, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano, Terrence Howard, Viola Davis
Review:
Kidnapping thrillers often lull us into a sense of safety in
the opening sequences, showing the normal rhythms of life that will soon be
shattered. Denis Villeneuve's "Prisoners" does not go that route. It
opens with a shot of a snowy forest, where a deer quietly noses around for
food. Into the frame comes the barrel of a shotgun. We hear a prayer being
intoned. Boom, the deer goes down. The camera pulls back to show a father (Hugh
Jackman) and teenage son (Dylan Minnette), in day-glo hunting gear staring at
their kill through the ranks of bare trees. On the drive home, the father, who
seems humorless, intense, and a bit of a bore, lectures the son on how to
always be prepared for the worst in life.
This opening is so heavy-handed that it's amazing that the
film doesn't instantly collapse under its symbolic weight. Shot by the great
Roger Deakins, regular cinematographer for the Coen brothers, the movie is
drenched in rain and drained of color. Aspects of "Prisoners" are
effective, but for the most part it's rather ridiculous (despite the fact that
it clearly wants to be taken super-seriously), and there's an overwrought
quality to much of the acting.
Keller Dover (Jackman) is an independent contractor who
lives with his wife Grace (Maria Bello) and two kids in a suburban neighborhood.
He loves Bruce Springsteen, "The Star-Spangled Banner," hunting, and
hoarding canned goods, gas masks, and survivalist gadgets in his basement. On
Thanksgiving, the Dovers go to dinner with a neighboring family, Franklin and
Nancy Birch (Terrence Howard and Viola Davis), who have two kids the same age.
While the parents drink wine and talk in the living room, the two little girls
ask if they can take a walk. It is a walk from which they do not return. Panic
ensues, especially when it becomes clear that a creepy RV, which had been seen
parked in the neighborhood earlier, has vanished. Detective Loki (Jake
Gyllenhaal) is assigned to the case.
The RV's owner, Alex Jones (Paul Dano), is dragged in for
questioning. Forensics say the RV is clean of physical evidence, but Alex is
strange. he speaks in a whispery high voice that makes him sound like a
pre-teen. It is not inconceivable to think that he may be hiding something.
This is clearly Dover's take, and he and Loki immediately start to butt heads
about the course of the investigation. When Jones is released due to lack of
evidence (into the custody of his aunt, played by Melissa Leo), Dover takes
matters into his own hands, kidnapping Jones, and holding him hostage in an
abandoned dilapidated building. Dover loops in Franklin Birch on his plan to
beat the truth out of Jones. Birch is horrified at the sight of Jones tied to a
sink, but he ignores his own moral compass in the face of Dover's furious
certainty. This is one of the subtler points of the script: how certainty can
override doubt with sheer force, and how doubt is often essential to
maintaining our humanity.
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