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Somebody help me out with the movie The Prisoners (spoiler alert)
Posted on 2/1/14 at 8:58 am
Posted on 2/1/14 at 8:58 am
Dont read further if you havent seen the movie but plan to...
i watched this movie last night, pretty good movie but i still had some questions at the end. Will one of you movie buffs help me out?
1. What was all the maze stuff about? All throughout the movie they talked about a maze and there was no maze? Or was the pit under the camero supposed to be a maze?
2. So im assuming the corpse under the church was the old lady's husband. So who put him there? And why was the cop snooping around the church anyway? and what was the priest's role in all this?
3. So the loony guy with all the snake boxes was just a poser? And pretended to be the killer? And how did he get a gun while in custody? How was he connected to the kidnappers, because he had all the mazes and snakes and the camper driving glasses guy said something about mazes and was afraid of snakes.
4. So the little black girl got away, but nobody searched the area where they found her? And the kids were in the lady's house the whole time? and the glasses guy was innocent, but still wouldnt talk while being tortured? And Glasses guy was the abducted kid on the tricycle from earlier in the movie?
Jeez. More questions than answers after watching this movie. Its like they tried so hard to make you think it was somebody else that it didnt add up at the end.
i watched this movie last night, pretty good movie but i still had some questions at the end. Will one of you movie buffs help me out?
1. What was all the maze stuff about? All throughout the movie they talked about a maze and there was no maze? Or was the pit under the camero supposed to be a maze?
2. So im assuming the corpse under the church was the old lady's husband. So who put him there? And why was the cop snooping around the church anyway? and what was the priest's role in all this?
3. So the loony guy with all the snake boxes was just a poser? And pretended to be the killer? And how did he get a gun while in custody? How was he connected to the kidnappers, because he had all the mazes and snakes and the camper driving glasses guy said something about mazes and was afraid of snakes.
4. So the little black girl got away, but nobody searched the area where they found her? And the kids were in the lady's house the whole time? and the glasses guy was innocent, but still wouldnt talk while being tortured? And Glasses guy was the abducted kid on the tricycle from earlier in the movie?
Jeez. More questions than answers after watching this movie. Its like they tried so hard to make you think it was somebody else that it didnt add up at the end.
This post was edited on 2/1/14 at 8:59 am
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Posted on 2/1/14 at 9:20 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
The crazy dude with the snakes and mazes was kidnapped as a kid by the old lady and her husband. They were part of one of those snake handling religious groups. I guess the mazes symbolize he was crazy or something like that. He got the gun off one of the cops in that little fight.
The priest killed the dude in the basement and dumped the body there. He was the old lady's husband.
The priest killed the dude in the basement and dumped the body there. He was the old lady's husband.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 9:28 am to Brosef Stalin
ok thanks, that makes a little more sense. So the priest killed him because he confessed to killing the 16 kids?
But why did the glasses guy say something about a maze when he was trapped in the shower?
So there was no actual maze. The pit under the car was just a pit?
But why did the glasses guy say something about a maze when he was trapped in the shower?
So there was no actual maze. The pit under the car was just a pit?
Posted on 2/1/14 at 9:29 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
Loki went to the priest's house because he was a convicted pedophile.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 9:36 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
Yes I'm pretty sure the maze is symbolic.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 9:40 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
The pit under the car was my biggest issue with this film.
So Dano's character and his RV are the only suspect/real evidence they have. And that suspect and evidence are tied to Melissa Leo's character's house. Is there any scenario whatsoever where the cops wouldn't have turned that place upside down and inside out? Even if they somehow missed the plywood under the car (which they wouldn't have), they definitely would have fun Leo's gun and LSD juice.
So Dano's character and his RV are the only suspect/real evidence they have. And that suspect and evidence are tied to Melissa Leo's character's house. Is there any scenario whatsoever where the cops wouldn't have turned that place upside down and inside out? Even if they somehow missed the plywood under the car (which they wouldn't have), they definitely would have fun Leo's gun and LSD juice.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 9:45 am to TotesMcGotes
Good point, and at the end, they're searching the house and digging up the yard, and the guy in the pit didnt yell out. only blows the whistle after they all leave?
so the kids were never even in the pit, they were in the house the whole time? And how did they get out? i thought it showed the little black girl remembering a maze book and and thats how she escaped but it never revisited that.
so the kids were never even in the pit, they were in the house the whole time? And how did they get out? i thought it showed the little black girl remembering a maze book and and thats how she escaped but it never revisited that.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 9:56 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
quote:They were in the pit at some point because Jackman's daughter left her whistle in there. Thats the whistle Jackman uses at the end
so the kids were never even in the pit, they were in the house the whole time?
This post was edited on 2/1/14 at 9:58 am
Posted on 2/1/14 at 10:01 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
It kind of sounds like you didn't pay attention at all
Posted on 2/1/14 at 10:03 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
If I remember correctly, the guys working outside of the out at the end of the movie had music playing or something so they wouldn't have heard the whistle.
And Leo explains why the kids had to be brought up from the pit and I can't remember what it was.
And Leo explains why the kids had to be brought up from the pit and I can't remember what it was.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 10:14 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
1. The maze is connected to the woman and her husband (Kidnappers of the children). They gave the kids a book of mazes and told them once they solved them all they could leave, but the final maze of the book is unsolvable (was stated by one of the CSI team while they were processing the house of the crazy guy).
2. The corpse wasn't under a church it was under the priest's house and he confessed to putting it there. He said the guy came to him in confession and owned up to kidnapping all those children and was going to take more because it was his way of "waging war against God". It was later explained that he and his wife took the children because their son died of cancer and they blamed God. To get "payback" they took children and wanted to make good men and women hate him too.
As to why the detective was there I can only guess that he was seeking advice from the priest, or the priest had been connected to child molestation or kidnapping before. I'm guessing the latter because the detective identified himself as a police officer when he knocked on the door and he obviously went there looking to search the house because he did just that. If he had been just seeking advice he wouldn't have gone into the basement once he found the priest passed out drunk.
3. The looney guy was a former kidnap victim of the wife and husband who escaped. I have no idea why he tried to pretend he had the kids. He either had some sort of stockholm syndrome after all that time and was told to take their clothes, or he was just crazy and it was his way of making what happened to him make sense.
He got the gun during the small scuffle in the interrogation room.
4. There were kept in the pit then moved into the house.
2. The corpse wasn't under a church it was under the priest's house and he confessed to putting it there. He said the guy came to him in confession and owned up to kidnapping all those children and was going to take more because it was his way of "waging war against God". It was later explained that he and his wife took the children because their son died of cancer and they blamed God. To get "payback" they took children and wanted to make good men and women hate him too.
As to why the detective was there I can only guess that he was seeking advice from the priest, or the priest had been connected to child molestation or kidnapping before. I'm guessing the latter because the detective identified himself as a police officer when he knocked on the door and he obviously went there looking to search the house because he did just that. If he had been just seeking advice he wouldn't have gone into the basement once he found the priest passed out drunk.
3. The looney guy was a former kidnap victim of the wife and husband who escaped. I have no idea why he tried to pretend he had the kids. He either had some sort of stockholm syndrome after all that time and was told to take their clothes, or he was just crazy and it was his way of making what happened to him make sense.
He got the gun during the small scuffle in the interrogation room.
4. There were kept in the pit then moved into the house.
This post was edited on 2/1/14 at 10:28 am
Posted on 2/1/14 at 10:27 am to lighter345
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it kind of sounds like you didn't pay attention at all
this x100
Some of those questions are reasonable but some make me think you pay attention about as much as my wife. It couldn't have been more obvious the guy took the gun from the cop in the little fight and then shot himself.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 10:28 am to RB10
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RB10
Nice synopsis. Thanks
Posted on 2/1/14 at 10:29 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
Posted on 2/1/14 at 10:30 am to lighter345
quote:
kind of sounds like you didn't pay attention at all
This is probably true. I did have a crying baby that kept interrupting me. And had the volume kinda low so he wouldnt wake up.
So yes, i did miss some of it. That's why im here, for the cliff notes.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 10:31 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
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So yes, i did miss some of it.
It's worth another watch. I think it was actually a good movie.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 10:35 am to RB10
yeah, i thought it had potential. It ended kinda abruptly, but definitely kept me in suspense.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 11:04 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
It ended abruptly, but the other 2 hours and 20 minutes had a ton of moments that dragged.
Posted on 2/1/14 at 12:19 pm to TotesMcGotes
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ut the other 2 hours and 20 minutes had a ton of moments that dragged.
not really. it was intense through and through
Posted on 2/1/14 at 3:51 pm to EvrybodysAllAmerican
It's been a while but I'm pretty sure the maze was the same as a medallion that her husband(corpse) wore. That's why jake g. (I think, maybe jackman) put it together when he saw the old picture in the glasses kid's room in the old woman's house.
Sorry, on my phone. Hopefully you get it
Sorry, on my phone. Hopefully you get it
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