Prisoners/Best scene/Denis Villeneuve/Hugh Jackman/Viola Davis/Terrence Howard/Paul Dano

In Pennsylvania, Keller Dover, his wife Grace, son Ralph, and daughter Anna celebrate Thanksgiving with their friends Franklin and Nancy Birch, and their daughters Eliza and Joy. The four children go for a walk, and Anna and Joy play on a parked RV. After dinner, the two go missing. Detective Loki responds to a police call that an RV matching the description is at the edge of the woods, and arrests the man inside, Alex Jones.
During interrogation, Loki realizes Alex's diminished IQ prevents him from planning a kidnapping and learns that his RV contains no forensic evidence of the missing girls. Loki runs down leads on local pedophiles and finds a corpse in the house of Father Patrick Dunn. Dunn admits to killing the man after he confessed to murdering 16 children for his "war on God".
The police captain releases Alex to his aunt, Holly. Convinced of Alex's guilt, Keller assaults him outside the police station, where Alex whispers to him, "they didn't cry until I left them". When Loki deems this new information inconclusive, Keller kidnaps Alex, and begins to torture him in an empty apartment building Keller owns.
At a vigil for the girls, Loki approaches a suspicious man who flees. Loki releases a sketch of him to the community. The suspect sneaks into the Birch and Keller houses. Grace hears him and calls Loki, who learns while responding that Keller spends his nights away from home. He tails Keller to the apartment building, where Keller claims he goes to drink, but Loki doesn’t find Alex. Loki tracks down the suspect, Bob Taylor, at his house. The walls are covered in maze drawings and Loki opens crates filled with snakes and bloody children’s clothes.
Loki discovers Taylor was abducted as a child. As Taylor scribbles detailed maze drawings while in police custody, Loki assaults him and demands the location of the missing girls. Taylor grabs an officer's gun and kills himself. The Birch parents and Keller view photos of the bloody clothes and identify several as Joy's and Anna's. At Taylor's house, Loki learns that many of the clothes are store-bought and soaked with pig blood.
Keller tortures Alex, who cryptically talks about escaping from a maze. Keller visits Holly, learning that Alex's speech disability comes from a childhood accident involving the snakes her husband kept as pets. While devoutly religious, Holly and her husband lost their faith after their son died of cancer, and adopted Alex as a way to cope.
Loki matches the maze pattern in Taylor's drawings to a necklace worn by the corpse in Dunn's house. Joy is found alive and hospitalized. When Keller grills her for information, she tells him, "you were there". He rushes out. Loki gives chase and travels to Keller's apartment building expecting to find him, but instead finds Alex.
Keller goes to Holly’s, telling her, "I don’t want to have to hurt you", but she pulls a gun. She explains that before her husband disappeared, they abducted children as part of their war on God to avenge their son's death, and to create demons out of the traumatized parents. Alex was their first abduction, Taylor their second. Holly imprisons Keller in a hidden pit in her yard, where he finds his daughter’s whistle.
Loki enters Holly’s house to inform her Alex has been found. Seeing a photo of the late husband wearing the same maze necklace as the corpse in Dunn's basement, he searches for Holly, who is giving Anna an injection. Loki and Holly exchange gunfire, leaving Holly dead and Loki injured. Loki takes Anna to the hospital.
A recuperating Anna and Joy visit a bandaged Loki in his hospital room to thank him. Sometime later, Loki returns to Holly's house, where he faintly hears a whistle blowing.

[@rysergates7713]

The first time I saw his face I was genuinely shook. Seeing what someone is capable of when they're afraid of losing their kid and desperate to find them

[@bl1798]

I really felt terribly bad for the boy, to see what they did to him, how far evil and human baseness can go

[@rysergates7713]

@@bl1798 You gotta remember, a desperate parent won't give a fuck

[@barbarossa1780]

Thanks nothing! He still has the skin on his face!

[@connortracey4536]

christ the way they made his face look is haunting

[@ZSHOT1809]

How could he even see

[@theycallmesomething4532]

@@ZSHOT1809 only one of his eyes was swollen shut. if you brighten the photo in an editing software, it’s easy to see.

[@dg7848]

Beat a 🥷 ahh til you can’t recognize him like Emmitt till

[@transformers_quotes5738]

don’t be fooled. this is just Amanda Waller recruiting The Riddler

[@brendan594]

Lol

[@gutterbaby8382]

Check out the brain on this guy. He figured out actors can be in different movies.

[@privateprivate8700]

@@gutterbaby8382 Check out the noggin on this guy. He figured out (not) the joke and yet it flew over his big noggin.

[@gutterbaby8382]

@privateprivate8700 I know the joke. You cannot go anywhere on the internet without hearing pasty spindly-armed capeshit nerds with no personality making this joke. "Whiplash is just J. Jonah Jameson bullying Reed Richards for two hours lmao 🤣 🤣". "Marriage Story is just watching Kylo Ren and Black Widow ruin each other's lives!". The joke is 1). not funny, 2). not as creative as nerds think it is, and 3). incredibly overdone. If you wonder why nerds get outcasted socially it's because they say shit like this and they think it makes them funny.

[@privateprivate8700]

@@gutterbaby8382 nah I cant fault you because you right but you care too much bruh 😅

[@dogboyified]

this scene made me feel so utterly awful for dano’s character. everything from the way he quivers, the bloodied bag over his head, and god, his face . . that face will haunt me until the day i die. and his gentle plea for help, just before his complete panic when he hears keller again, absolutely heart wrenching. even a while after watching this film i cant stop thinking about alex. and while it’s revealed in the end that (SPOILER) he was barry and is returned to his family, it’s sad to know that, after all that he’s been through, he will never /truly/ be back.

[@allidoischill]

Could have told them where they were....

[@sherrymonnahan9380]

@@allidoischill He'd been kidnapped as a young child and raised in fear and abuse for his entire life by 2 dominant ruthless figures. With the amount of subservient training that was no doubt drilled into his head he was likely more afraid of what his 'aunt' would to do him for snitching rather than what Keller was putting him through. That or he knew if his 'aunt' was caught with the girls she'd be sent to jail and he, in his 10 year old mind, would be alone and vulnerable.

[@samosullivan1744]

Viola Davis has such an amazing power of managing to steal an entire film with one brilliant scene, like she did in Doubt! She deserved an Oscar nomination for this performance!

[@dannielson2946]

She's ok.... relax x

[@ian.ambrose]

@@dannielson2946 Yeah she was ok lol. Oscar? No way.

[@Clarkjacksonfitness]

She didn’t steal the film lol

[@TheLevitatingFleem]

She’s a great actor but she didn’t even remotely “steal the entire film” my dude chill out lmao and I lost all respect for her after Woman King lmaoooo

[@barbarapaparella1833]

​@@TheLevitatingFleemI agree . Nicole Kidman won she won her Oscar For The Hours had like a 20 min or so scene and was brilliant.

[@christianjimenez2611]

0:26 when batman has had enough with your riddles:

[@averyangrygringo6440]

😂😂😂 When you think about it Thomas wayne Batman would do it

[@katherinecastillo1638]

I think that when the woman shows him the doll he thought it would come to help him, he definitely did not understand why he was there being beaten :c

[@johnLennon255]

He understood. No point in the movie does it suggest he doesn't know why they're torturing him.

[@yysam_]

He definitely knows why he’s being tortured, what’s confusing is why he waits sooo long before he’s like “there in the maze” I’m wondering if his aunt fked him up like in the head

[@Zoroasto1]

That scene... is so much.

[@DjShadowsound265]

The poor guy was innocent

[@troyedwards877]

Ehhhh I would not say innocent, was he not the one who took the kids into his van and brought them to a killer. He also could of avoided it all if he just told them they were at his house

[@TheSoldier1984]

@@troyedwards877 because that was his mother I don’t think he’s allowed to break info to detective Loki.

[@abelchavez2463]

@@troyedwards877 he is innocent. Alex has a history of abuse by Holly since he was a child. Alex doesn't even understand what he's doing or why all he understands is abuse. We are what our surroundings teach us and that is what Alex was taught. He is a victim.

[@G18999]

Innocent? Wtf are you talking about. He literally kidnapped the kids and took them to his fake Mom's house. He could've told the cops they were there. He got exactly what he deserved!

[@DjShadowsound265]

@@G18999 if you understand victims you can see why he’s innocent. The detective meets a mother who’s son was abducted years ago and it’s “hinted” that this guy was that same boy who was kidnapped at like 5-6 years old. So this guy actually has the mind of a child because he was treated like one and kept in seclusion/confinement as he was a hostage. As he grew older the kidnapper (the old woman who needs her door fixed etc) basically brainwashed him and warped his brain to be like a dog and believe she was his mother/master like an adult child slave. So he would lure the kids and he thought it was normal which is why he isn’t able to speak up and explain his side of the story as he’s getting beaten, he doesn’t k ow any better because he’s basically a scared kid in his mind.

[@editingman95]

Wolverine, Rhodey, Mysterio, Riddler & Amanda Waller

[@monarchxero1822]

This scene stayed with me for weeks after finishing Prisoners for the first time. I was just as utterly shocking the second time through as well.

[@dudeimperfect2867]

Amanda Waller be recruiting Wolverine and Mysterio to take on the Riddler

[@eshswam]

You can tell the moment she saw how tortured he was...there was a possibikity that he was innocent and she couldnt even think of something like this was deserved

[@JadenFolster]

Looks like my oblivion character

[@bl1798]

I really felt terribly bad for the boy, to see what they did to him, how far evil and human baseness can go

[@sreardonatpfg]

What they did was unquestionably brutal, but not evil. They’re fathers filled with love for their children and fear for their well being. Any reasonable man would do the same.

[@daneallemand3428]

Any reasonable man would kidnap somebody, hold them hostage, and torture them repeatedly? Even if he had valid suspicions it's still not a reasonable thing to do, he's not supposed to be a reasonable man, he's a desperate man @@sreardonatpfg

[@cHeStEr5434]

⁠​⁠@@daneallemand3428 That’s your opinion. But hey, you’re probably the type that would prefer a guilty terrorist have the right to remain silent rather than give up details of a plot that could kill hundreds, thousands, or millions of people, right? Most would agree that torture is justifiable if engaging in such an act could save lives.

[@anthonymarquez4617]

​@@sreardonatpfgYou don't take the law into your own hands & brutally torture an innocent person out of emotional assumption, putz.

[@luimiller6019]

@@anthonymarquez4617It wasn’t an emotional assumption, Keller had reasons to believe that Alex was directly responsible. I’ll present: 1). Keller knew that Alex’ RV was in their neighbourhood at the time of the girls’ disappearance. 2). Keller knew that Alex had attempted to evade capture - innocent people don’t run. 3). Keller knew that despite the claim that Alex was mentally handicapped, he was legally able to drive - implying that his disability was possibly a façade. 4). Keller heard tell him directly, “They didn’t cry until I left them.” Realistically speaking, what is that likely to mean? 5). Keller saw Alex strangle an animal - sign of a possible psychopath. 6). Keller heard Alex sing the same song that the girls were before they disappeared. Likely coincidence? I think not! In the abduction of two children, this is all some pretty irrefutable “evidence.” Add to that, while the entire situation was far more complex than initially thought, Alex was not completely innocent - as he did play an important role in all this.

[@joewhitehead3]

He coulda said something then

[@santymonty967]

Still don’t believe they did enough damage to him

[@HAZZARD2099]

WHAT?! Did you even SEE the movie?! He was a completely innocent victim, as he was also kidnapped as a child by the crazy old hag and never did ANYTHING wrong!

[@cHeStEr5434]

⁠@@HAZZARD2099 OMG!! There is no F*CKING way Alex was “innocent” and he DID do something wrong!He’s the one who coerced the little girls into the RV to give them a ride, and took them back to the house where his “aunt” decided to keep them. Victims very often become victimisers, especially with child molesters. By your twisted, irrational logic, child molesters who were molested as children are actually innocent and not in the wrong because they were once victims??? Well thankfully the law and every sane, rational person on this planet disagrees with you!

[@richstitch2194]

​@@HAZZARD2099he knew about everything

[@jonahg4311]

Godamnnn they fucked him up!

[@GREENCUBE880]

They broke him spiritual and physically