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Movie endings, they're usually pretty straight forward right? Everything pays off, the main characters learn something, and our heroes ride off into the suns...
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Ending Explained: Prisoners | Video Essay. The art of evoking suspense, while keeping viewers at the edge-of-their-seats, is an intricate one.
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May 27, 2020 · Prisoners Ending Explained. Tom The Critic. 11.3K subscribers. Subscribed. 1.6K. 131K views 3 years ago. The fate of Keller revealed. ...more.
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- Why Holly Jones Was Kidnapping Children
- How Alex Jones Was Involved
- Why Bob Taylor Implicated Himself
- How The Priest's Murder Is Significant
- Does Loki Save Dover?
- What Could Dover’s Fate Have Been?
- What Prisoners Ending Really Means
- Why The Prisoners Ending Worked - According to The Screenwriter
- The Prisoners Alternate Ending Explained
Diving Into The Haunting "Why" Of Holly Jones
One of the biggest questions the Prisoners ending leaves is why Holly Jones, played by Melissa Leo, and her husband prior to his disappearance were kidnapping children in the first place. While Prisonersdoes answer this, the film's complex emotional story can allow certain aspects to become lost beneath the hard-hitting way the movie is presented. Also, as Holly is introduced early in the film, things that are revealed about her when she is "innocent" in the eyes of the audience can be forgot...
Red Herring Or Hidden Victim?
Leading to the Prisoners ending,Dano's Alex Jones is one of the central characters in some harrowing ways. Firstly, his intellectual disability puts him as one of the film's red herrings, with Alex often making comments that seemingly implicate him in Anna and Joy's kidnapping such as telling Keller: "They didn't cry until I left them." This causes Keller to torture Alex throughout the movie. However, the film reveals that Alex was not involved in the actual kidnapping of the girls, he was on...
How Trauma Led Bob Taylor Down A Dark Path
Another of Holly's kidnapping victims is Bob Taylor. In the film, Taylor is used as another red herring who breaks into the Dovers' house, is found with Anna and Joy's clothes covered in blood, and confesses to the kidnappings before committing suicide. In the scene in which Prisoners, directed by sci-fi movie master Denis Villeneuve, reveals that Holly was responsible for the kidnapping, it is also revealed that Taylor was a former victim of the Jones' that actually escaped, and Holly forgot...
The Murder Unearths Twisted Truth in Desperate Search
One other plot point is the investigation of Father Dunn by Loki, similarly ranked amongst Jake Gyllenhaal's best performances alongside Dano’s. In the film, Loki visits a local priest and finds a decomposed body in his basement.The priest reveals that the man confessed to killing 16 children in a war against God, resulting in the priest killing the man in retaliation. The man whom the priest killed is later revealed to be Mr. Jones with Holly under the impression that her husband disappeared...
The Prisoners Ending That Leaves Guessing
With the majority of the movie's mysteries being answered, the Prisoners ending of the film is left ambiguous.The main way this is done is through Keller Dover's fate, which continues the film's depiction of real-life horror scenarios. At the end of the film, Keller is left in the pit beneath the Jones' pick-up truck for days after Loki saves Anna from Holly. The very last scene in the film sees Loki standing defeated in front of Holly's house, hearing a faint whistle that is being blown by K...
Dover's Fate Sparks Ethical Debate
One of the lingering questions of Prisoners is what Dover's fate could have been whether Loki did or did not save him.If Loki does not save him, the likelihood is that Dover dies in the pit. Dover was shot by Holly in the leg, and broke that same leg upon falling into the pit. These injuries would be difficult to survive, especially in the cold, unsanitary conditions of the pit. It is likely that Dover blowing the whistle is his last attempt at being saved. Similarly, if Loki does save Keller...
Unraveling Themes of Imprisonment and Redemption
The ending of Prisoners, in terms of the final scene and its overall reveals tie together the themes of the movie that director Denis Villeneuve intended. One of these themes is the film's title which has often been subject to debate. The ending of the film sees Loki and Keller, the two protagonists, facing the consequences of becoming prisoners themselves. Dover became a prisoner of his own grief by sacrificing his humanity to find his daughter, which leads him to the pit at the end of the f...
Aaron Guzikowski Believes in the Ambiguous Ending
The Prisoners ending is a haunting and thrilling way to end this intense story and screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski knew that was the right conclusion. In an interview (via Buzzfeed) Guzikowski spoke about how he enjoyed the ambiguity of the ending, even if he believes what follows is inevitable. Compared to the more explicit version that was shot, he says, "I like it much better being ambiguous. Even though you assume that's what's probably going to happen, I like that there's a small chance th...
Analyzing the Endings and Their Impact
The Prisoners ending might have worked due to its ambiguity, but it almost had a much more definitive conclusion. The Prisoners alternate ending plays out very much the same way as the official ending up until the point that Loki hears the whistle again.This leads to him removing the car that is blocking Keller's hole and Loki is able to find Keller still alive within it. The alternate ending was not planned by the filmmakers but rather an insistence from the studios in case audiences didn't...
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Sep 16, 2022 · Prisoners Ending Explained: Is Anna telling the truth about the whistle? Holly and her husband began abducting children when their own son died. This was their way of waging “war against God”. In fact, the ending also reveals that Alex was the very first child they kidnapped, who has been with them ever since.
Aug 3, 2022 · Villeneuve leaves an ending open to multiple interpretations. It is up to the viewer to follow two probable scenarios – one in which Loki manages to find and rescue Keller from the basement and the other where he leaves the place, attributing the whistling sound to howling winds.
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May 13, 2023 · The ambiguous cut-to-black ending without revealing Keller's fate allows the film to have it both ways and offer up hope without ruling out the worst outcome. How did the script end? Warner...
