TAKEN
(America’s First Motion Picture on Modern Day Slavery)
The movie taken was released in 2008, and I being the curious mind that I am, ventured out to see it with my boyfriend. The movie is about a girl who goes on a vacation with her friend to France. They meet a boy there who seems very nice, and they tell him they want to party with him that night and were they are staying (very dumb of them.) The boy comes back with 2 very large men and kidnaps the 2 girls and this is the beginning of the sex slavery experience. The girl’s father finds out that she has been kidnapped and he ventures to France to look for the girl and retraces all of her tracks. Her father is very determined and is a body guard for a living so he did all of the right things in searching for his daughter. In a brothel, he finds his daughter’s friend dead, but not his daughter. Eventually, he keeps searching and finds his daughter; they are reunited but a lot happened in the past.
This movie really scared everyone that watched it because it brought reality to America about sex slavery. I think this movie was appropriate because it gave everyone a reality check about traveling to other countries after Natalie Holloway’s death. This movie really scared me and stressed me out because it was so real and logical. Tons of girls in different countries worldwide are trafficked just like these 2 girls were in the movie. People were scared of this movie and we only hit the lives of 2 girls when in reality there are thousands and thousands trafficked each year.
