MOVI ES
BY RICK LEVIN
IMPRISONED
Director Denis Villeneuve delivers
a sweeping crime thriller
PRISONERS: Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Written by Aaron Guzikowski.
Cinematography, Roger Deakins. Editing, Joel Cox and Gary Roach. Music,
Jóhann Jóhannsson. Starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis,
Terrence Howard and Maria Bello. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2013. R. 153 minutes.
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t’s likely you already know too much about Prisoners,
the excellent new film by young Quebecois director
Denis Villeneuve. Yes, Prisoners is about a kidnapping
and its brutal aftermath. Yes, the movie’s scenes of
unreconstructed violence are deeply disturbing. Yes, it
has a crackerjack cast, which includes Hugh Jackman,
Maria Bello, Terrence Howard and Jake Gyllenhaal as the
talented and tormented detective assigned to the case.
Working with a screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski,
Villeneuve has made a movie that deserves placement on
the top shelf of recent dark thrillers, alongside films like
Gone Baby Gone, No Country for Old Men and Mystic
River — and this is no random list. Guzikowski knows his
stuff. He assembled a dream team for Prisoners, including
cinematographer and Coen brothers stalwart Roger
Deakins and co-editors Gary Roach and Joel Cox, the latter
of whom is a longtime collaborator with Clint Eastwood.
So yes, with a pedigree like that, Prisoners will get
under your skin, though perhaps not for the reasons you’ve
been led to believe. This is a sweeping Russian novel of a
movie, tangled and epic, and its title should be taken as the
first clue to the abyss it opens up. Quite literally, the movie
is threaded together by a series of abductions and
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imprisonments, each one leading with horrible inevitability
to the next.
But Prisoners also delves into the notion, at once
devious and devastating, that every person touched by
crime is imprisoned — an idea that transcends questions of
good and evil. There may be no key unlocking psychological
prisons of trauma and grief. From its gorgeous opening
scene, which hones in on the filigreed etching of a tree’s
convoluted bark, Prisoners is a maze with no exit. And,
again, that maze is literal and figurative, and so
metaphorically charged it will make you itch.
Unhappy families are always unhappy in their own
way, and it should be pointed out that, contrary to a bit of
(somewhat racist) Hollywood marketing, not one but two
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children (one black, one white) are abducted at the
beginning of Prisoners. Hugh Jackman is riveting as the
coiled-up control freak with outback survivalist tendencies,
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and Viola Davis, who most painfully and humanely
register the tidal nightmare of violence consuming
everyone around them. As a father paralyzed by loss,
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