What is the importance of trees in Prisoners?
Throughout Prisoners, different shots of different trees are shown (including the famous tree shot at the beginning) and after searching for some time about what do they really mean I only found this article which is based on one of director's interviews.
They’re kind of like ghost characters.
They’re always there, at least in the background. Each scene you can feel their presence. And they are linked with this idea of necessary violence.
However, the scene that raises my curiosity is the scene with a tree that looks a lot like "tree of life" and given the many uses of symbolism in this movie and having Roger Deakins at there hands, I wonder if there are other meanings/symbols behind the trees.
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What do 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).Why was there a maze 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 is the plot of the movie Prisoners?
Production. Aaron Guzikowski wrote the script based on a short story he wrote, involving "a father whose kid was struck by a hit-and-run driver and then puts this guy in a well in his backyard". That short story was partially inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".Prisoners: Symbolism Done Right
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