Feb

Taken and Torture

Posted by Published in Mise en scene, Movie Commentary, Movie Morality, Patriotism, Politics as Theater

During the movie Taken, one of my friends had a strong negative reaction to the torture sequence. Not because it was graphic, or even disturbing. He had a political reaction. Afterwards he said he nearly walked out because “torture never works”. My other friends thought it odd that he picked out [...]

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Feb

Not so Taken

Posted by Published in Movies that should have been better, New Release

Last night I saw Taken with three guy friends. A fourth joined us for dinner, but bailed before the movie started. Something about having to work on President’s Day. Whiner. Anyway, preconception was that it would be a quality action movie. After all, Liam Neeson?

But 30 minutes in, I turned [...]

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