Taken

I watched Taken, a movie based on a script by Luc Besson, in this afternoon. I think it is the most wonderful movie I watched. Some scenes in Taken made me rethink of the roles of cell phones in contemporary societies.

In Taken, when Kim was on the phone with her father Bryan, she witnesses her friend Amanda being abducted through the window. Bryan tells Kim to hide under the bed and informs Kim that she will be kidnapped by those gang members. At the same time, Bryan records all their conversations. But Bryan asks Kim to tell as much information about those guys as possible through phone and he can find her because of the clues. As Kim is being taken, she shouts out all information such as the height and tattoo of the criminal before she is knocked out. According to the important recording of Kim’s call, Sam, Bryan’s friend, researches out the kidnappers’ background.

In Taken, without cell phones, Kim would never be found. Absolutely, Taken is just a fictional movie. But the cell phones in our real life have many essential functions. Nowadays, most people cannot live without cell phones. We can communicate whenever and wherever we want. Mobile phones make the distance throughout the whole world become very small. More and more mobile phones have the function of Internet. It combines the cell phone’s benefits with Internet’s advantage!

P.S.:
I attached the summary of this movie and I do recommend you guys to watch it!

Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is a retired United States government agent. He is divorced. He has a 17-year-old daughter, Kim and he loves her very much. She lives with his ex-wife Lenore. One day Kim plans to take a vacation in Europe with her friend Amanda to follow U2’s European tour. They know Peter, who works for a Criminal gang from Albania, after they arrived at the airport. Bryan starts investigating the case and reaches Paris to find his daughter. There he comes to know that that the kidnappers are sex-slavers and that he has only 96 hours to recover his daughter before she will disappear forever. He takes the help of Jean-Claude, who is deputy director of a French intelligence agency and pursues the kidnappers. He uses the digital photos from the smashed remains of Kim’s phone to locate Peter, who is hit by a truck while trying to escape. Later he manages to save one of the kidnapped girls from the hands of the kidnappers and she discloses to him the address of the house where the Albanian kidnappers are holding other girls. With the help of the address, he finds the house and many other girls, but does not find Kim. Among the girls he finds the body of Amanda who dies due to drug overdose. He also captures a kidnapper alive. Later, through torturing the captured kidnapper by electrocuting him, Bryan ascertains that Kim was sold to a man named Patrice Saint-Clair, who is planning to make a by selling her because she is a Virgin Bryan also comes to know the Jean-Claude is involved in this case. He visits Jean-Claude’s family as a friend before confronting him with his knowledge about Jean-Claude's involvement in Kim's case. To demonstrate that he is serious, Bryan shoots Jean-Claude’s wife, in her arm and, by holding his family hostage and extracts Saint-Clair’s location from Jean-Claude. Bryan then seeks Saint-Clair and on finding him he learns that Kim has been sold to Arab clients. Bryan manages to follow the car his daughter is being taken in to see her being taken away on a yacht. He jumps on to the ship from a bridge and eliminates all the people inside, finally killing the client and freeing his daughter.