2013 – Denis Villeneuve
Viewed August 2, 2019
Hatred holds us all captive
I sympathized with each character and then I loathed their decisions, then went back to sympathizing with them again. Prisoners is a great thriller because it never asks the viewer how they would react to an abduction: it asks them to understand the film’s characters who, like all humans, are deeply flawed.
Watch the video clip below for a video tribute by the Pure Cinema YouTube channel to the cinematography of Prisoners. The film’s cinematography was shot by the incomparable Roger Deakins