Prisoners
I don't like Jake Gyllenhall, but this is probably the best I've seen him? Two and a half hours, slow but not heel-dragging, tense and very enjoyable. Bleak and although the end comes as no big surprise, it barely gives an inch of anything positive to clutch at for the most part. There's a bathroom torture scene which smacked of Snow Town, although more psychologically brutal than viscerally brutal. It raises the usual questions of morality and how far one would go to find/save a loved one but avoids taking a high ground. I guess it feels more poignant at the moment with the recent cases of abductions and child-interfering that have made headlines.
