Nice Story

Rating: 8/10 (25 September 2019)

Denis Villeneuve is a director that worth considering for fans of the mystery genre. In Prisoners, Denis shows how cold the atmosphere is when a tragedy occurs, accompanied by the calm strains of scoring, the cold and emotional expressions of Hugh Jackman and Gyllenhaal play the role perfectly. The color palette was successfully displayed in bringing atmosphere to life, cold and blue for hopeless scene and warm colors when hope began to emerge. Silhouette technique remains a mainstay and it was a trademark of Villeneuve.
The narration about the abduction of two young children is told to be very strong and intelligent. Keller Dover had a strong suspicion towards Alex for kidnapping case, which made him sadistically torture Alex, then led detective Loki's suspicion to Dover because of his suspicious movements, then finally led to a twist about the actual kidnappers.
The ending scene of Prisoners is just that Villeneuve seemed to give freedom to the audience because each person will easily guess but with different answers and theories.