I saw “Taken”, and the premise of the movie is a father rescuing his daughter from sexual slavery. Mobsters from a small eastern European country are involved in the retail aspects. I know that eastern European woman are currently exploited for this purpose, but the crux of the movie is base on the bad guys targeting western woman. Is this based on real life events? Or is it a device to promote a visceral response from fathers such as myself as the movie unfolds?
(Mods: I wasn’t sure where this question was appropriate to this forum–feel free to move this thread.).
I think they take a lot of poetic license with the… less than a minute of voice, over the cellphone… and they use that to almost immediately identify the speaker. It’s my understanding voice-print identification isn’t anywhere near that sophisticated as of yet.
Not to spoil the movie, but I found it particularly improbable that the attractive bait guy at the airport who starts it all carries through with it. The fact there are two girls rather than one, who are clearly well off financially based on the address and size of the apartment where they are dropped off makes them very unlikely victims. If anything, maybe I could believe they’d be kidnap victims because of the money their parents would obviously have, but I would generally think the bad guys would target runaways or other girls who were alone and/or wouldn’t be obviously missed as sex slaves. I had a real problem with that aspect of the movie.