What "Taken" was REALLY about.

Rating: 6/10 (24 June 2009)

I have a hard time watching "Taken" without interpreting it through an American political filter. Let me show you what I mean.
"Taken" is a film about American ideals, innocence and virtue (played by Maggie Grace) who is betrayed by the always treacherous, always swarthy French government after mistakenly leaving the country and discarding American xenophobic wisdom. The French allow her to be hijacked by Albanian communists in order to be transformed into the liberal whorish ideals of Europe, for the ultimate purpose of being deflowered by a large, fat Arab Muslim terrorist.
Fortunately, America (played by Liam Neeson) jumps in and handles the situation by blowing the brains out of many, many people and implementing the use of "advanced interrogation" techniques on the evil-doers. The reckless, gung-ho ends-justify-the-means American philosophy saves the day, and American culture is rescued from the Arab terrorist.
Afterwards, the American ideals are taken back to the homeland and given the chance to fulfill the American dream by achieving superficial fame in Hollywood. The end.
Still a good movie, though.