Peterson Bonenfant The main point of the film taking is Mr. Bryan Mills only daughter Kim is the joy of his life. Bryan is a retired old agent who left his job to be closer to Kim in California. Kim the only daughter of Bryan lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. She convinces her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. The cab driver who is one of the Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaped the girls for sexual slavery. Kim did not have time to call her father and give him information of where they are and who’s taking them away. Her father gets to speak for a short time to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," on finding her, so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend. When he got to the house where they were, he search the rooms for evidence on where they took them and how. Bryan finds her daughter’s phone in one of the room with a picture of one of the kidnaper.
Bryan Mills scanned the picture and went back to the airport. When he got there, he was looking for young men who’s interesting in picking up young girls to their destinations. He then saw the young men, he started following him; they both run they trying to escape from him and the kidnaper jumped off one of the bridge and killed himself. With his knowledge of war and gang violence Bryan was ready to do anything for his daughter; so with his power and contacts he located everything that was going on in the city.
Brian Mills killed the leader of the kidnappers. He found out that his daughter was sold to a man named Saint Clair. He visits a man named Jean Claude and finds out where Saint Clair live by treating to kill jean Claude wife. Bryan forces a middle Eastern bidder to purchase his daughter get captured , escape forces Saint Claire to telling where his daughter is and kill him. Bryan kill a few guards and shot the Middle Eastern in the head and finally rescue his daughter. The crime was the human trafficking those three were part of it and because the government official was involved it also conspiracy committed by Marko and Saint Clair as well as the Middle Easterner. Marco kidnaped the Daughter of Bryan Mills then he sold her to a person call Patrice Saint Clair. Bryan Mills guilty of vigilantism which, in this case, was a victimless crime however less lives could have been loss if the correct authorities were brought in. The effect of the incident were pain and suffering by the kidnaping as well as unneeded loss of lives by the vigilance Bryan Mills. Sex slavery affects millions of women and degrades the values of human life with the society in general.
The theories that had been presented in class that explain the crimes in the film TAKEN are Techniques of Neutralization, Classical Theories, and the Radical/Conflict Theories. Each of the listed theories present an explanation for how the crimes in this movie were allowed to happen. The Techniques of Neutralization explains that the guards and lower men that the film’s hero callously kills were able to rationalize their actions by appealing to their higher loyalties and thus deny responsibility. Bryan Mills was also able to deny responsibility by denying the victim by viewing them as lower than human. Mills was able to to kill multiple people who were, “just doing their jobs” by viewing them as directly responsible for kidnapping his daughter when some of the guards were just paid to make sure no one gets past certain points and, quite possibly, had no knowledge of what was going on. Saint Claire most clearly made the denial of responsibility through the appeal to higher loyalties obvious when he said “Please understand... it was all business. It wasn't personal” to Mills.
Classical theory explains that everyone was able to do what they did simply based on the cost benefit balance. This idea is explained early on by Sam, “Okay. Their previous MO was to offer women from the emerging East-European countries like Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria jobs in the west as maids and nannies. Once they smuggled them in, they'd addict them to drugs and turn them into prostitutes. Lately, however, they've decided that it's more economical just to kidnap traveling young women. Saves on transportation costs”. The cost of kidnapping women was simply the risk that one man, or group, discovered them and over railed the organization whiles the reward was a massive amount of money (seeing as human trafficking is the 2nd largest criminal market in the world. Finally, the Radical/Conflict Theories explains why there were only wealthy criminals shown in the movie. Whiles Bryan’s daughter had rich parents and was not a worker, she was stripped of her power and forced within the worker class by the richer bourgeoise. The bourgeoisie wanted power over other people due to their greed and thus victimized the women in the film to obtain this lust for power. In conclusion, Taken is a film about a lone wolf avenger attacking an issue which is harder than most law enforcement teams know how to deal with. The film makers probably did not think too deeply about the fact that the main character himself was a criminal and, in my opinion, this movie equates to revenge porn. There are great lines within the movie, and I did enjoy it in a mindless “look how cool that was” sort of way. I believe there is a way any theory could explain the crimes which took place, but my personal opinion is that the people in the film did what they did because they wanted the money. In that way, I agree with the Classical Theories most in this case.