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 happens to Keller 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. Whether Keller is alive or not is left ambiguous.
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Does Keller Dover survive?

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 happened at the end of the movie Prisoners?

After its multiple plot twists, Prisoners' original ending concludes the story with Dover confronting Alex's "mother," Holly, who, in turn, shoots him in the leg and forces him into the pit. The movie's final scene depicts Loki standing about as workers wrap up excavation work on Jones' property.
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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 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 Keller do to Alex?

Keller kidnapped Alex at gunpoint and tied him up in his old apartment building. With Franklin's help, he kept beating Alex into telling him where Anna and Joy were but he still wouldn't budge. Five days after Anna and Joy were kidnapped, Franklin told his wife Nancy what Keller did.
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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.
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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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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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Does Prisoners have a good ending?

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 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 do the snakes in Prisoners mean?

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 Prisoners movie 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 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 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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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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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.
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Do they find the daughters in Prisoners?

After the police let Alex go, Keller kidnaps Alex. Because Alex is missing, Holly doesn't leave the girls in the hole to die but brings them into the house to keep her company. That choice allows the girls to eventually survive the ordeal.
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What was the drink in Prisoners?

Pruno, or prison wine, is an alcoholic liquid made from apples, oranges, fruit cocktail, ketchup, sugar, bread, and possibly other ingredients. Pruno originated in prisons, where it can be produced cheaply, easily, and discreetly.
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Are Prisoners scary?

With its grisly realism, Prisoners is much more terrifying than any horror film, simultaneously grueling, spellbinding and contemplative.
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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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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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What is the alternate ending to Prisoners?

In a 2013 interview with Buzzfeed, screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski shines a light on what was in the alternate ending. “They move the car. They see [Hugh Jackman] down there. You know he's going to be taken out of the hole.
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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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