Is 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".

What do 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).

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.

Did they find Keller at the end of Prisoners?

The ending was purposely left ambiguous. 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.

Who kidnapped the girl in Prisoners?

Prisoners(2013)

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.

Why the Last 30 Seconds of PRISONERS is Perfect Storytelling

What was the point of the maze in Prisoners?

The whole concept of a maze is that people become lost in the convolutions and complications of the structure. Prisoners puts that concept onto how people struggle to work through and escape from their traumas.

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.

What does the ending mean in the movie 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.

Why did Joy say 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.

What happened 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.

What do Detective Loki's tattoos mean?

The tattoos, as Jake Gyllenhaal explains, emphasize his troubled past (since he "spent six years in the Huntington Boy's Home") and give him a bit of an unusual background compared to your average police detective.

Does Jake Gyllenhaal have a neck tattoo?

Currently, Gyllenhaal has no tattoos, and the ones he had in Southpaw were merely a result of makeup and fake ink.

Is there a prisoner 2?

A man being forced to do a terrible thing in order to save his own life. A man being forced to do a terrible thing in order to save his own life. A man being forced to do a terrible thing in order to save his own life.

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).

What was the drink in Prisoners movie?

He stayed at her house for three weeks and was drugged with a LSD/Ketamine drug cocktail, which is classic a mind control technique. Bob managed to escape from the house, but while Bob is free, his mind is definitely not.

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.

Who took Keller's daughter?

As Joy wakes up, Keller asks what happened to Anna and where were they held at. Joy says that Keller was there. Knowing that their kidnapper is Holly Jones, Keller heads on over to her house to confront her. At the house, Keller demands Holly where she kept the girls.

Where was the movie Prisoners filmed?

Prisoners was shot on location in Conyers and Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Filming locations included Atlanta Medical Center, Village Square Shopping Center, and Stone Mountain. Keller Dover's house was located at 700 Deering Rd SE, Conyers.

Did the prisoner ever escape the village?

When last seen in the final episode, "Fall Out", the residents of the Village are evacuated by helicopter after Number Six primes a missile (located within a silo beneath the Village) to launch. The episode and the series never reveal what happens to the Village or its people after Number Six finally escapes.

How did Joy get away 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.

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".

Who was the guy in the basement 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.

Why were there snakes in the movie Prisoners?

Dover, in a way, does turn into a demon as he tortures an innocent, mentally challenged Alex (getting his own faith challenged in the process). The snake symbolizes chaos, a chaos that turns good people to doing things they aren't supposed to (eating the apple despite strict instructions from God).

Why did they take the children 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.