What's in a name?

Nothing is by chance when you make a movie, even the smallest detail is careful thought through, and some as important as the name of the one of the main character is chosen with much thought and reason.

That being said -  Why the name Loki?

Loki is is the wily trickster god of Norse mythology. What does that have to do with Prisoners' storyline?

 "Loki, the Trickster, challenges the structure and order of the Gods which is necessary in bringing about needed change." " He can change in both shape and sex."

In the Prose Edda Snorri Sturluson writes that Loki:

is handsome and fair of face, but has an evil disposition and is very changeable of mood. He excelled all men in the art of cunning, and he always cheats. He was continually involving the Aesir in great difficulties and he often helped them out again by guile.

 He is dynamic and unpredictable and because of that he is both the catalyst in many of the myths and the most fascinating character in the entire mythology. Without the exciting, unstable, flawed figure Loki, there would be no quickening pulse, or no change in the fixed order of things.

In the clips previewed  you're not sure who's the protagonist and who' s the antagonist.  Is Jake's character a flawed protagonist or is he  really the antagonist?

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