The confrontation between humanity and divinity

Freda 2022-04-19 09:01:09

"The Prisoner" is a stepping stone for Dennis Villeneuve to open up a Hollywood blockbuster. From the audio-visual point of view, the shallow focus air lens deliberately creates a sense of depression, making people's breathing gradually tighter, a kind of pressure hidden in the heart, and at the same time The character composition has also been handled in the scene scheduling, and people are often placed in a closed frame, which is easy to produce a sense of alienation between people. What is more memorable is the slow-moving camera, from the character's perspective. Giving perspective from behind increases the hidden dangers of danger.

1. There are elements of confrontation in the film all the time. Like God, people have fantasies about what they expect, and they need to pray to God, and the child abductor is also praying to God, praying that the sins committed are good-hearted. , unwilling to act.

2. On the one hand, the father of the lost girl is doing a godlike way of redeeming the girl and saving the family. On the other hand, he cannot resist the cold torture of an uncertain murderer, making the father who was originally kindhearted unable to resist the evil side.

In the end, people and gods are like a labyrinth, transforming into each other.

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  • Cassandre 2021-10-20 18:59:23

    In this world, there are not many people who can make B-level films into high-end literary films. Almodóvar, David Fincher, Eastwood, and now Dennis Villeneuve, some people say that this film is very good. Forcing is a great help to the director, but please put your ears up

  • Clarabelle 2022-03-23 09:01:08

    [A] The whole film suffocated to the end, and then ended with a headshot feeling-it came to an abrupt end, stifling all hope. The film is very Villeneuve: depressive and cold, slow-paced, but the film is long and shocking, there is no waste scene. The whole movie is very complete. As a suspense film, it has strict reasoning and does not forget to come to a reversal at the end; as a drama film, it has characters in place and an excellent atmosphere. Everyone has a fatalistic ending: despair and powerlessness.

Prisoners quotes

  • Detective Loki: Just let me do my job.

  • [first lines]

    Keller Dover: Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen.

    Ralph Dover: [shoots a deer]