In Prisoners, why does Bob Taylor and Alex refer to the house as "the maze"?
I can't really wrap my head around one thing: the fact that two victims of the kidnappers - Bob Taylor and Alex Jones - refer to the house as "the maze".
Alex Jones tells Keller that he can find the girls at "the maze", while Bob Taylor literally drew a maze when asked where the girls were. So in what aspect is the house "a maze"?
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According to this explanation:
It represents the system that abducts children and, more importantly, the state of mind control these children are forced to live in.
After days of torture, Alex Jones finally says to Keller: “I am not Alex Jones”, implying that he was abducted by Holly and that he was given an alter persona. When Keller asks him where the kidnapped children are, Jones replies: “They’re in the maze. That’s where you’ll find them.” Of course, Jones does not refer to an actual maze but to the state of mind control the children are subjected to.
Later, Detective Loki finds a suspect named Bob Taylor who acts in bizarre matter and who was also a victim of Holly Jones. He stayed at her house for three weeks and was drugged with a LSD/Ketamine drug cocktail, which is classic a mind control technique. Bob managed to escape from the house, but while Bob is free, his mind is definitely not. We quickly realize that he is still “stuck in the maze”.
While Bob’s “maps” do not actually lead to the physical location of the children, it leads to their psychological state: Trapped in the mind control maze of their handler. In actual mind control, mazes are an important trigger image that accurately represents a slave’s mind state. “Maze maps” are programmed into the victim’s internal world to keep them from accessing their core/true personality.
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What did the maze mean in prisoners?
The whole concept of a maze is that people become lost in the convolutions and complications of the structure. Prisoners puts that concept onto how people struggle to work through and escape from their traumas.What did the snakes mean in prisoners?
The snakes and the mazes: The killer(s) would tell the children that they would be freed if they solved all the mazes in the book. Leo's character also refers to her husband keeping snakes (she alludes that Alex had some sort of accident involving snakes and that being the reason for his mental state).What do the puzzles mean in prisoners?
It represents the system that abducts children and, more importantly, the state of mind control these children are forced to live in. After days of torture, Alex Jones finally says to Keller: \u201cI am not Alex Jones\u201d, implying that he was abducted by Holly and that he was given an alter persona.What did Bob do in prisoners?
That is the reason he bought/stole children's clothings, smeared them with pig blood and buried those boxes full of dolls in his garden. He was imitating the "Invisible Man", pretending to have kidnapped/killed the children, even if not ever doing it for real.\
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