What does 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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What did Alex do in Prisoners?

So it turns out that Paul Dano's Alex Jones is actually a kidnapping victim, raised by Melissa Leo's “Aunt” who was, with her dead husband (the body found in the priest's crawlspace), responsible for all the child abductions in the area.
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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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Is Alex innocent Prisoners?

And while Alex may have initially had innocent intentions with Anna and Joy, to pretend he was a child again, free from the burden of his theft, he had to have known bringing them back to Holly wouldn't end well. He isn't innocent here.
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Why did Joy say you were there in Prisoners?

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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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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What did the maze mean 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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Who kidnapped Anna Joy?

Share: POOPER: Holly Jones (Melissa Leo) kidnapped the two little girls.
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Was Mr Dover found in 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.
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What does the ending of Prisoners mean?

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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What did Keller drink in Prisoners?

After a pause, Keller demands to know where Anna is, but Holly pulls out a gun and tells Keller to put on a pair of handcuffs and drink a portion of an LSD-Ketamine drink Holly made to drug children.
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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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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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What is the drink in Prisoners?

Pruno, or prison wine, is an alcoholic beverage variously made from apples, oranges, fruit cocktail, fruit juices, hard candy, sugar, high fructose syrup, and possibly other ingredients, including crumbled bread. Bread is incorrectly thought to contain yeast for the pruno to ferment.
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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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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.
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Why did Joey say Keller was there?

That was because he was in the Holly (Alex's 'aunt') house right before she escaped, apologizing for Alex's 'disappearance'. Joy heard him talking, and that's why she said he was there. That was also what made Keller come to the realization that Holly was the kidnapper and why he went there with a gun.
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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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What were the H blocks?

Her Majesty's Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as The Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house alleged paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from mid-1971 to mid-2000.
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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.
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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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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.
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What is the meaning of Prosion?

1 : a state of confinement or captivity. 2 : a place of confinement especially for lawbreakers specifically : an institution (such as one under state jurisdiction) for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes — compare jail. prison. verb.
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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.
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Why is the movie Prisoners rated R?

Prisoners is rated R by the MPAA for disturbing violent content including torture, and language throughout. This additional information about the movie's content is taken from the notes of various Canadian Film Classification boards: Violence: - Frequent explicit violence.
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