What happens at the end of imprisoned?

During the climactic final moments of the film, Dover is drugged, wounded, and imprisoned in an underground pit by Holly, which is hidden by a car in her driveway.
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What happens in Prisoners at the end?

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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Does the dad get found 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.
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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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Is imprisoned a true story?

"Imprisoned" doesn't claim it's based on a true story, but it also doesn't dissuade anyone from thinking that it might be. Although certainly well-meaning in its condemnation of capital punishment, Imprisoned is too dully executed to achieve its desired impact.
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Where was Imprisoned filmed?

Production. The film was shot entirely in Puerto Rico in 2017 before Hurricane Maria hit.
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Why is Imprisoned rated R?

Rated: R, for violence, disturbing images, some sexuality and language.
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Who kidnapped Anna Joy?

At one point her husband left her, presumably feeling guilt for their crimes. He confessed his crimes to a local priest, who later killed him and threw the body into the church's basement. Even with her husband gone, Holly doesn't stop and abducts Joy Birch and Anna Dover.
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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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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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Who kidnapped the daughters in Prisoners?

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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. Then, they became serial child murderers intent to “wage a war with God” by turning the parents of their victims into grief-stricken demons.
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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 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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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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Why did no 6 resign?

Other episodes suggest that he was a spy or similar operative, though director Alex Cox stated in his 2017 book I Am (Not) A Number: Decoding The Prisoner that he was in fact a rocket engineer who resigned from his work because he felt his research was being misused.
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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).
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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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Why does joy say you were 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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Why did the girl in prisoners say you were there?

Joy and Anna attempt to escape, but only Joy is successful. In the hospital, Joy says to Keller, “You were there,” which Keller realizes means Holly's house and that Holly wasn't an innocent old lady.
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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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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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Is Imprisoner a word?

n. 1. One who imprisons. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G.
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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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