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''Prisoners'' is a 2013 American thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve from a screenplay written by Aaron Guzikowski. The film has an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo and Paul Dano. The plot focuses on the abduction of two young girls in Pennsylvania and the subsequent search. At the 86th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Cinematography. == Plot == Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) and his wife Grace (Maria Bello) attend a Thanksgiving dinner at the home of their friends, Franklin (Terrence Howard) and Nancy (Viola Davis) Birch. The children go for a walk in the neighborhood and approach a campervan that is parked outside a house nearby. There is music playing, which suggests there is somebody inside. After dinner, both families' younger daughters, Anna Dover and Joy Birch, go missing. Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) is informed and starts a search. He arrests the driver of the campervan, which is now parked up at a gas station. The young man, Alex Jones (Paul Dano), has the IQ of a ten-year-old, and appears confused when being questioned at the police station. His vehicle is searched by forensics but nothing is found relating to the girls. Pursuing other leads, Loki discovers a corpse in the basement of Father Patrick Dunn's house. The priest (Len Cariou) admits that he killed the man because he confessed he was "waging a war against God" and boasted of killing sixteen children. As the search continues, Dover is informed that Jones has been released and attacks him outside of the police station. Jones whispers to him, "They didn't cry until I left them." Since Loki won't re-arrest him, Dover abducts Jones by himself, locks him up in an abandoned apartment building and begins torturing him until he cooperates with the help of a reluctant Franklin. Loki follows Dover to where Jones is being held prisoner but doesn't find him, as Dover fabricates a story about stopping over in the building so he's able to drink to ease his suffering without his wife knowing. At a candlelight vigil for the girls, Loki sees a hooded man acting suspiciously, who flees when Loki approaches him. Later on, the man breaks into both families' houses but leaves without doing anything. A store clerk recognizes the man from an e-fit and reports him to Loki after seeing him buying children's clothing. The suspect, Bob Taylor (David Dastmalchian), is later arrested at his home, whose walls are covered in drawings of mazes. Loki then finds crates filled with maze books, live snakes, and bloodied children's clothing, including items belonging to the missing girls after Dover confirms it. At the police station, Taylor confesses to the abduction but he kills himself before revealing any more information. The police conclude that Taylor was a fantasist and had no involvement with the disappearances; he stole the clothes from the girls' homes and bloodied them with pig's blood to recreate abductions. Dover continues to torture Jones, who then starts denying he is Alex Jones and claims he escaped from a maze. Dover visits Jones' aunt, Holly (Melissa Leo), who tells him that Alex is the way he is because he had an accident with snakes her husband kept as pets when he was younger. She also says that she and her husband were religious until their young son died of cancer. Back at the police station, Loki becomes frustrated with getting nowhere with the case until he matches the mazes from Taylor's house to the maze necklace worn by the man Patrick Dunn killed in his basement. Suddenly, Joy Birch is found drugged but alive. Dover visits her in the hospital to ask for information. Her memories are confused but she mumbles, "You were there" to Dover, instantly making him a suspect. He then realizes that Joy may have seen him at the Jones' house when he visited Holly, and runs from the police. Loki searches for Dover at the apartment building and discovers Alex. Dover then goes back to the Jones' house to get information from Holly, but she pulls a gun on him. She explains that she and her late husband abducted many children as part of their "war on God" after their son's death. Alex was the first child they abducted, followed by Taylor. Holly imprisons Dover in a concealed pit in her yard, where he finds a whistle belonging to his daughter. Loki goes to Holly's house to tell her that her nephew has been found. He finds a photograph of Holly's husband wearing the same maze necklace found on the body in the priest's basement, making the deceased Holly's husband. Loki finds Holly with Anna and exchanges gunfire, wounding him and killing Holly. He then rushes Anna to the hospital where she reunites with her mother. Alex, revealed to be Barry Milliband in the newspaper, is reunited with his parents after surviving the torture. A day later, Loki returns to the Jones' house where the authorities have begun excavating the property. As the other investigators depart for the night, Loki hears Dover's labored whistling from the pit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prisoners (2013 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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