Monday, March 23, 2009

'Taken' and global sex traffic

"In his recent Fox thriller, 'Taken,' actor Liam Neeson tackles the inevitable result of that change, for sexual predators are the natural pedigree of sexually libertine societies. Neeson plays a divorced father who slashes through Europe, guns blazing, to rescue his young daughter. Kidnapped and drugged, she is auctioned off by aristocratic French sex slavers to wealthy Arab buyers during her Paris college vacation.

"'Taken' is brutally honest about the 'high end' of the growing global sex slave traffic. The girl's naïveté and her capture are wholly plausible and follow thousands of years of similar history when good men allow bad men to attain power. Only the happily ever-after rescue by 'dad with the "mad skills" of a super spy' is implausible."