Prisoners (2013)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Prisoners |
| Original title | Prisoners |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 153 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Denis Villeneuve |
| script | Aaron Guzikowski |
| production |
Kira Davis , Broderick Johnson , Adam Kolbrenner , Andrew A. Kosove |
| music | Jóhann Jóhannsson |
| camera | Roger Deakins |
| cut |
Joel Cox , Gary D. Roach |
| occupation | |
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Prisoners is an American psychological thriller from the year 2013 , directed by Denis Villeneuve . The script was written by Aaron Guzikowski . The German theatrical release was on October 10, 2013. The location was Derby , Connecticut .
action
The Dover and Birch families celebrate Thanksgiving together . After dinner, the two daughters Anna Dover and Joy Birch disappear without a trace while searching for Anna's lost whistle. A little later, a police presence found a suspicious motorhome. When Detective Loki tries to lure the driver Alex Jones out of the car, he panics and drives into the next tree trunk. At the following interrogation, however, there was no incriminating material against Alex suspected of having the IQ of a 10-year-old. He is released and returns to his aunt Holly Jones' house.
Keller Dover, the father of the missing Anna, vehemently insists on Alex's guilt, which is why he kidnaps him and tortures him in a shabby house that belongs to him - in the hope that he will reveal the girls' hiding place. He forces the other family man, Franklin Birch, to help him.
Meanwhile, Detective Loki goes in search of the real kidnapper and soon comes across the suspicious Bob Taylor. He visits Taylor in his house and overwhelms him. It turns out that he kept snakes in many black boxes along with blood-stained children's clothes. The parents of the two kidnapped girls can assign parts of them to their daughters. The murderer seems captured, so all that is missing is the corpses.
Taylor commits suicide at the police station. The blood on clothing is found to be from pigs. He had stolen the clothes during break-ins in the homes of different families. Taylor had painted mysterious labyrinths dotted around his house. After a while, Loki recognizes the labyrinth symbol: a corpse he had found in the cellar of a pastor wore it as a pendant around his neck.
Days later, Joy Birch is found and taken to the hospital. There is still no trace of Anna. Joy finally whispers that Keller was "there". This leaves the hospital in a hurry, followed by Loki, who suspects that Keller will go to the old house. There Loki discovers the abused Alex. Keller Dover, in turn, drives to Holly Jones' home, as he suspects that Joy could have heard his voice there. Holly threatens him with a gun and locks him in an underground hole in the garden, in which Joy and Anna were also temporarily locked and in which Dover finds Anna's whistle. Holly and her husband (the corpse with the labyrinth pendant in the minister's basement) had kidnapped children, including Bob Taylor and Alex Jones, to wage a "war on God" who had their son had with cancer at a young age let it die. Their motive was the hope that people would turn away from God if their children were kidnapped.
Loki eventually goes to Holly's house to tell her about Alex's release. He discovers Holly when she is trying to kill Anna by injecting poison. He can shoot Holly, but is injured in the process. He takes the poisoned girl to the hospital, where she will be rescued. At the end we see forensics men digging up the Jones garden and telling Loki that this will take weeks for the entire garden. When the men finish their work, Loki registers the low whistle of Dover, who is still injured and locked in the hole in the ground. The scene ends here.
Trivia
The German free TV premiere of the film was secured by the TV station ProSieben for March 27, 2016. The audience ratings were 1.18 million (5.7% market share) and 0.77 million (8.8%). ) in the advertising-relevant target group.
Reviews
Prisoners was received largely positively by US critics. Around 81 percent of Rotten Tomatoes reviews received the film benevolently. The website comes to the following conclusion: " Prisoners is carried by an emotional complexity and a feeling of fear that disturbs the viewer."
" Prisoners is the kind of film that captivates you, almost in the literal sense: you feel like a hostage, condemned to be nailed to the cinema seat and go through everything until the feared-bitter or the hoped-for-redeeming end."
“Looks and details haunt the audience long after this film, as does the violence of the story and that of the images of camera veteran Roger Deakins . Prisoners lets you look deep into human abysses. With rare force, Denis Villeneuve outlines how far people are able to go whose lives are determined by obsessions and crimes. "
“ Prisoners is a dark thriller, the aesthetics and dramaturgy of which are reminiscent of the psychological dramas of David Fincher ( Sieben , Zodiac ). None of the characters seem to be guiltless, everyone hides a dark secret, and the more the crime story ramifies into mysterious, sometimes hair-raising horror details, the more the viewer is drawn into an abyss of competing emotions in which morality is no longer a category . "
“Director Denis Villeneuve depicts the slide into uncertainty with subtle imagery. Without ever touching the functionality of the genre machineries "psychological thriller" and "melodrama", he sets fine staging accents. He gives a lot of space to the pain of the victims' families, and the fear of loss that grows with each day of the kidnapping, the agonizingly spreading uncertainty vibrates in rain-soaked and autumn-gray views of Pennsylvania lost in the loneliness of the forest. The natural idyll becomes a horror backdrop. "
“A gloomy, ingeniously constructed kidnapping and vigilante justice thriller, whose atmospherically dense, exquisitely photographed images are burned into your memory. At the same time, the film describes the captivating duel between a father and a childless police officer, which with clever reflections and doubles touches on major ethical questions. "
Awards (selection)
Roger Deakins was recognized for his camera work a. a. Nominated for an Oscar in 2014 . In addition, the film was nominated for the Satellite Award in 2013 in the categories Best Cinematography , Best Editing and Best Supporting Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal) .
Gross profit
With production costs of US $ 46 million, Prisoners climbed to the top of the box office on the US opening weekend with box office earnings of US $ 20.8 million. The film grossed over $ 122.1 million worldwide.
Web links
- Prisoners in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Prisoners at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Prisoners at Metacritic (English)
- Prisoners in the online movie database
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Prisoners . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2013 (PDF; test number: 141 049 V).
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime check: Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016. In : quotemeter.de . Retrieved March 30, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Prisoners (2013). In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved October 11, 2013 .
- ^ Film review by Barbara Schweizerhof . In: The world . Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ↑ Complete loss of control. In: Berliner Zeitung . Retrieved October 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Thriller sensation "Prisoners": The torturer in you. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved October 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Film review on Critic.de
- ^ Film review on Filmdienst.de
- ^ Box Office Mojo: Prisoners (2013) . Retrieved July 15, 2020 . (English)