Taken: A Frightening Fare
Ok. I’m paranoid. Of a lot of things. I listed off a bunch of my weird fears to Dan the other day and the list was rather extensive; fear of being buried alive, fear of white Jeep Liberties, fear of flash floods. Each odd paranoia has with it an attached childhood story.
I’ll spare you all the hours of group therapy and just say that I watched a movie this weekend with a plot line that tops all previous phobias; the fear of being kidnapped in Paris by an Albanian crime syndicate and sold into sex slavery to an overweight Arab sheik. I don’t even think there’s a name for that one.
The movie was called Taken. The plot was pretty much as I described above. Except add-in that the kidnapped girl happens to be the daughter of a retired US Special Forces agent played by Liam Neeson.
I thought the movie was well made. But DAMN. It was scary. I spent all day yesterday researching human trafficking. The scenario of random female tourists being snatched off the streets of Paris seems rare. But human trafficking in a major problem. I hope there’s someone out there that’s not me who will dedicate their life to fighting it.
I would recommend this film. Its scary as hell of you’re a woman. And its even scarier if you have kids. But I think its worth a viewing just to see how Liam Neeson beats the tar out of the odious bad guys. And they are despicable. When you finish this film you want nothing more than immediate and painful death to anyone who trades in human trafficking.
But just know that you will have the poop scared out of you. I had a hard time sleeping. It’s like every woman’s worst nightmare played out in an hour and half movie. For some reason I had nightmares after watching it of Hannibal Lector chasing me through my old high school trying to eat my feet. But that’s just my weird subconscious. Yours will probably make more coherent nightmares.