Finally, I think I’m ready to commit my Mondays to Movie Musings. Now, I may not have something to write about each and every Monday … but those movies that I have found to be moving; with the ability to stir up the writer juices in me … are the movies that will ‘hit’ these pages on Mondays. Let’s call it ‘Movie Musings on Monday’.
A few Monday’s back I did my spin on HellBoy II, that’s what got me to thinkin’ about writing something each week on the movies that I have enjoyed viewing. I guess just focusing on what appeals to me will be a bit limiting, but writing about the movies that have caused pleasant feelings to surface is a lot more satisfying than trying to pretend to be a critic and write about why I think a ‘pic’ shouldn’t have been taken out of the ‘can’. Oh, and the pieces that I may write about may or may not be currently showing in the cinema’s.
A Succinct Overview
Okay now, this week my spotlighted flick is ‘Taken’ … This movie focused on a real danger to young adults traveling overseas. … OMGosh was I ever drawn into this saga … It was as though I was abducted and subjected to the same terrors that those young ladies endured. And was I ever angry, outraged and definitely seeking retribution against each and every individual involved in the soulless acts imposed on those young ladies.
For those of you that haven’t seen this movie, it’s about a sex-trafficking ring centered in Paris that abducts young female tourist, turns them first into addicts and then either auctions them off too wealthy international moguls or uses them in their prostitution racket.
However, they slipped up when they abducted the daughter of Bryan Mills [Liam Neeson]. He was a retired CIA operative, who used his lethal skills to track down this criminal syndicate and eventually find his daughter. Bryan took no prisoners, everyone that he encountered paid the price with their lives for the crimes that they were subjugating on these innocent girls. The girls didn’t choose that lifestyle … they were selected by men … hold-up, monsters dressed like men who were totally without a conscience, then they were drugged to make sure they were compliant and subsequently handled as if they were nothing more than cattle … to be bought or sold; used and abused repeatedly.
However, the hero in this story totally annihilated the villain, what more could I ask for in a movie…
