This is another of those categories that people talk about but I don't really know how to judge. Cinematography is essentially how the film is shot, but like most art, whether or not you appreciate it is up to you. Everybody says Roger Deakins is one of the best Directors of Photography in the industry right now and they're probably right. He's making his feature debut as a director this year with Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp so he's at least making it work for him.He does convey the tone of the movie. If you turn off the volume so you're not influenced by dialogue or score, and you can still tell the overall emotional mood of the film, it's probably a great cinematographer that did it. Prisoners is flat, grey, depressing, and cold. You get that sense throughout, even if it's just paused. Every scene is shot through with melancholy.
It is Thanksgiving Day somewhere in America and the Dover family have gone over to visit their neighbors, the Birch's, for dinner. Their kids are roughly the same age and the young ones, Anna (Erin Gerasimovich) and Joy (Kyla Drew Simmons), are best friends. The girls run off to play unsupervised and then go missing. Anna's older brother (Dylan Minnette) remembers seeing a decrepit old RV parked on the street. Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) locates the RV and arrests the driver (Paul Dano) for trying to flee the scene. He is later released for lack of evidence. This does not sit well with Anna's father (Hugh Jackman), who decides to abduct the driver and torture the girls' whereabouts from him. Meanwhile, Loki is having to split his attention between another suspect (David Dastmalchian) and Mr. Dover, because he knows the latter is up to something.
People compared this movie to Zodiac and I can see why. Both movies are slow, talk-heavy, boring, and think they are more clever than they actually are. I was very dissatisfied with the experience of watching and at two and a half hours that's a rather large waste of my time.
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