Did he find him at the end of Prisoners?

There was an original ending where Loki moves the car and finds Keller but the filmmakers changed it on purpose and the studio ultimately left it as is. The ending does show that Loki hears the whistle, but we don't see him actually find Keller.
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What is the ending of Prisoners?

At the end, Alex is reunited with his family after 26 years, and Kellar is left calling for help, blowing the missing whistle that Anna and Joy went off to find in the first place. That whistle set in motion the plot of "Prisoners," so it's fitting that it brings the movie to a close.
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Did Keller survive in Prisoners?

Keller is alive and is blowing his daughter's red whistle for help. Loki hears it and shrugs it off, but as the whistle's sound amplifies, Loki realizes something is off, and then the camera cuts to black. The End.
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Did they find Keller at the end of Prisoners Reddit?

Detective Loki hears the whistle. He's a detective, he will investigate. He will eventually zero in on the car, find the pit, and pull Keller out. This ending was actually filmed, but was cut out from the final product.
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Who ends up being the kidnapper in Prisoners?

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POOPER: Holly Jones (Melissa Leo) kidnapped the two little girls. LONG VERSION: Holly and her husband were religious zealots until their young son died of cancer.
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What was the point of the maze in Prisoners?

In actual mind control, mazes are an important trigger image that accurately represents a slave's mind state. “Maze maps” are programmed into the victim's internal world to keep them from accessing their core/true personality.
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Why did Alex not talk in Prisoners?

Short answer: the trauma. We didn't see much of Anna and Joy after being taken. There was just a short scene as Joy remembers it, and their mouth were duct-taped ("It put tape on our mouths"). In the hospital, we learn that Joy was drugged and thus almost completely unable to speak.
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Who was the man in the basement in Prisoners?

Pursuing other leads, Loki discovers a corpse in the basement of Patrick Dunn, a priest. Dunn admits that he killed the man because the man confessed he was "waging a war against God" and had killed 16 children and said that he would kill more.
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How did Joy know Keller was there?

When Joy sees Keller at the hospital, she remembers him being at Holly's house. Joy says "You were there, they put tape on my mouth." Meaning that when Keller was at Holly's house, Holly put tape on the girl's mouths to keep them quiet.
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What happens to Keller Dover?

It is unknown what happens to Keller. He would die if Loki thought the whistle was nothing. If Loki did decide to investigate it, which he did, he could save Keller in time, but Keller would have to face prison unless Barry/Alex and his family drop the charges.
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What did the snakes mean in Prisoners?

The snakes and the mazes: The killer(s) would tell the children that they would be freed if they solved all the mazes in the book. Leo's character also refers to her husband keeping snakes (she alludes that Alex had some sort of accident involving snakes and that being the reason for his mental state).
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Was Prisoners based on a true story?

Production. Aaron Guzikowski wrote the script based on a short story he wrote, involving "a father whose kid was struck by a hit-and-run driver and then puts this guy in a well in his backyard". That short story was partially inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".
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Is there 2 endings to Prisoners?

Director Denis Villeneuve filmed two endings for his 2013 thriller Prisoners—however, the alternate ending would have undermined the film's core identity. Prisoners twisting narrative follows Hugh Jackman's Keller Dover and Jake Gyllenhaal's Detective Loki.
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How did Joy escape in Prisoners?

Later, the girls somehow managed to make a run for it from the house - but only Joy succeeds in getting away. The flashback shows Joy running through some woods and then arriving at the edge of a freeway, where presumably she was rescued by passers-by. Shiz Z.
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How did Keller know where his daughter was?

After an exhausting ordeal he's been through and after losing almost all hope, he hears "You were there" from Joy. Moments later he realizes where was the only place where he could've been heard (we see that clearly on his face), and it dawns on him where his daughter is (or at least was).
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What did Alex say in Prisoners?

While captured in the "wooden" prison in Prisoners, Alex Jones says: "I waited but he never came".
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Why did Loki visit the priest in Prisoners?

Detective Loki was going around talking to known sex offenders when he visited the (passed out drunk) priest. Are we to infer that the priest is a known sex criminal and yet has continue to pastor his church? Sex offenders are required to inform the public of their crimes.
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Is Barry Alex in Prisoners?

So in the end of Prisoners, the 2013 movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman, it turns out that Alex Jones is actually Barry, an abducted child missing for over 20 years.
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Who died Prisoners 2013?

Male Deaths
  • David Dastmalchian [Bob Taylor]
  • Hugh Jackman [Keller Dover] (Debatable)
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Why did the woman kidnap the kids in prisoners?

Blaming God for not saving him, they sought to make others feel their pain. The pair began kidnapping children to turn the parents into 'demons' as they called it, forcing them to lose their mind and faith like they did. In their reign, there were only two known survivors, Bob Taylor and Barry.
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Are the H blocks still there?

The hospital and part of the H-Blocks are currently listed buildings, and would remain as part of the proposed site redevelopment as a "conflict transformation centre" with support from republicans such as Martin McGuinness and opposition from unionists, who consider that this risks creating "a shrine to the IRA".
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Why is the movie Prisoners called Prisoners?

Alex and Bob are both victims and prisoners of the Jones couple. They are additionally trapped inside their mind and are continually trying to seek a way out, a way out of the maze that the Joneses have created for them. Just like the final maze given to them that has no solution, they are unable to do so.
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Does Jake Gyllenhaal tics?

"The tics and those physical manifestations, that happened in my mind as I was reading it. Just before I made this movie, I was on stage in New York City playing a character who talked a lot, and had a lot of sort of nervous energy," Jake recently shared to The Wrap about his hit film Prisoners.
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