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  • Hi guys it's Debbie and today I would like to speak about "Prisoners" directed

  • by Denis Villeneuve. Villeneuve has recently started to become one of the most

  • acclaimed directors of our generation and that is thanks to some of his works

  • such as "Enemy", his recent film "Arrival", which nearly reached 10 Oscar

  • nominations and also in October he will be giving us the highly awaited "Blade

  • Runner 2049". "Prisoners" is Villeneuve's 2013 film and it stars Jake Gyllenhaal,

  • one of my favourite actors, alongside Hugh Jackman, Viola Davis, Paul Dano and many

  • others. "Prisoners" is the story of two very young girls which go

  • mysteriously missing from their house in Pennsylvania one afternoon. The only odd

  • thing about this afternoon is the presence of an RV parked outside on the

  • road in which the two girls were playing just hours before the disappearance and

  • the driver's reluctance to speak to the police.

  • Unfortunately the RV doesn't contain any evidence and throughout the plot the

  • case thickens, proving that even a simple, rural, apparently safe community can

  • become the scene of an intense manhunt. Hugh Jackman portrays the furious (and

  • often arrogant) father which refuses to stay put and wait until the system has

  • found his daughter and decides to take the matter in his own hands, doing

  • everything possible, including going against the law. In general "Prisoners"

  • encourages us to try and mentally cross that line between what is legally

  • right and what we personally consider right. As a matter of fact alongside the

  • main investigation, other important topics are fury and

  • revenge. The film also portrays the two points of view on how to handle a

  • situation of this nature: Hugh Jackman's character is the skeptical guy who

  • doesn't consider the police as trustworthy as he would like to and

  • immediately takes the matter in his own hands, becoming hated by everybody

  • surrounding him. While Terrence Howard and Viola Davis portray the more

  • cautious couple, patiently waiting for the police to finish their job and also

  • they appear quite reluctant to take any personal rushed decisions. The film in

  • general leaves us free to judge, as it also shows the downside of the

  • characters' choices, of how victims can become perpetrators. So I feel safe to

  • say that this film is a very creepy analysis of which point

  • the human mind is willing to reach. If you enjoyed watching films like "Mystic

  • River", "Zodiac" "Gone Girl" or even "Changeling", I would definitely recommend watching

  • "Prisoners". It is an awesome, engaging blend of a suspense-filled crime drama

  • film, with some hints of pure horror. Jake Gyllenhaal did an awesome job at

  • portraying the lead detective on the case and watching this film made me

  • realise why I appreciate him so much as an actor. He completely managed to

  • combine the anger he had towards this case, to who took those girls, the fury in not

  • being able to find a clue, of the frustration of having to deal with

  • unbearable stress and uncooperative colleagues, but at the same time trying

  • to not show this to the public. Also his character at first appears very limited

  • and simple: your local police detective on a new case. But he isn't like the

  • others, he isn't like his colleagues. There's something about him, something

  • about his nearly punk, rebellious attitude and appearance that makes us

  • believe that something happened in his past,

  • there is something he's not telling us. He is never shown at home with his

  • family or friends, he doesn't speak that much if not necessary, never revealing

  • too much about himself. This is why I really liked Jake Gyllenhaal's

  • performance in "End of Watch", in which he also portrayed a member of the police

  • which had to deal with a series of contrasting issues. In general Jake

  • Gyllenhaal has always been a master at bringing on screen a wide variety of

  • emotions and a rich and vast range of personalities and minds. From "Donnie

  • Darko" nearly twenty years ago to the more recent "Enemy", "Nightcrawler", "Nocturnal

  • Animals". And in nearly all of these films he managed to contain the personality...

  • ...within the character. What I'm trying to say is that in our daily life we don't

  • usually work out another person's personality and what's going through

  • their mind thanks to a narrating voiceover. On the contrary we go through

  • the mind's incredible maze observing a variety of behaviours, gestures,

  • expressions. And that's what Gyllenhaal is able to do at best: we meet his

  • characters, we discover them through vast set of details and peculiar features. As

  • a matter of fact I was quite surprised in meeting his loud and extravagant

  • character in "Okja", with an appearance and attitude

  • which spoke for his role. "Okja" also featured Paul Dano, which gave us the

  • awesome portrayal of Alex, the main suspect in "Prisoners". Often growing up we

  • heard so many stories about bad people, we were warned to stay away from odd

  • strangers and nasty men. And in this film you can really tell that everything in

  • Alex's character is built upon what society would consider.... the scary guy, on

  • wanting us to hate Alex. So the film plays a lot on disturbing us, on making

  • us feel uncomfortable. If I really had to point out a flaw without revealing too

  • much, there were some points in the second half of the film, towards the end,

  • in which the plot was giving us some quite obvious clues and I would have

  • preferred it to remain more obscure right until the end. But except for this

  • detail everything else was absolutely stunning and it really makes me look

  • forward for the upcoming "Blade Runner". Let me know about your thoughts

  • regarding "Prisoners" with a comment here below. I hope you enjoyed this video, if

  • you did remember to subscribe for more movie-related content. See you soon, bye!

Hi guys it's Debbie and today I would like to speak about "Prisoners" directed

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