They are going to take you.

I watched Taken the other night. Fantastic movie, I would highly recommend it. I had been told by multiple people that it was 'a good movie' and it was suspenseful, a good action movie that serves for mostly an entertainment film with explosions, but there were a couple parts of the movie and lines that were spoken that really have been stuck in my mind since I watched it a couple nights ago. It's not for the violence or even necessarily the characters that I found this movie to be intriguing, but bits and pieces..

The movie trailers and reviews really haven't done it justice. When asked for a summary, the most often heard descriptions I got were along the lines of, "Oh, it's this former CIA guy and his daughter is taken. So he tries to get her back." but it's so much more than that. It was a dark movie that exposed some of the most horrific evil that takes place all over the world and gets very little publicity. It's shocking, terrifying, sickening. The dialogue in the beginning of the movie when the daughter is across the world from her father and is talking to him on the phone keeps replaying in my mind. The daughter watches through a window across the house as men break into the house and capture her friend she was traveling with. She's on the phone with her father, becoming hysterical as she realizes what's happening and what will soon happen to her. I completely expected her father, retired CIA employee, wise of the ways of the world father to calmly explain to her ways to escape this dangerous situation.

"Quick, go into the bedroom next to the room you are in and hide under the bed." The daughter obeys, and I begin to feel the same relief she does despite knowing the outcome of her situation due to the title of the movie. I am comforted by her father's calm voice, reassured that there is escape and hope. I wait for his next instructions with her as she scrambles under the bed, I'm on edge and waiting for the next step to escape. I'm waiting for the next step to be something along the lines of cleverly tricking her opponents and escaping in a way that only a former CIA agent would think of on the fly of a dangerous moment.

"Now listen to me... They are going to take you."



I feel my stomach drop a little and I see fear and confusion appear on the daughter's face. As she wraps her mind around this statement, that there is no escape, that there is nothing in her power to do except wait to be caught, her face contorts and prepares for tears and returning hysteria. The father continues to calmly explain steps she will need to do, not in order for her to escape of her own means, but steps that are necessary in order for him to save her. Hold the phone near the edge of the bed so he can record their voices, when she is captured she is to begin screaming out identifying features of her kidnappers rather than simply scream and plead, but in the end the only form of fighting back is to accept her fate and to trust her father.

"I promise that I will find you, I promise that I will save you." No try, no maybe, but a promise.

I won't continue on, because the journey that the father makes and the things that he does in his pursuit to save his daughter are too unbelievable to simply be read in text. The dedication and drive that a being can have for another is amazing to me. Going to any lengths to save only a single person is illogical and doesn't make sense to many people. Despite the darkness and the evil in this film, I was in continuous awe of the drive and motivation that the father had for his daughter. If I had one person that would be willing to go to that kind of distance for me, I wouldn't know how I could possibly express my thanks to them. It's stunning.

Then I realized that this scenario is familiar. I am that girl. There are times, places, people, situations that are completely unavoidable. I hide myself under a bed and wait for directions of how to escape the terror, the discomfort, the evil, and I feel the same horror and disbelief when I hear the words, "They are going to take you." My rescue is not of my own accord, I am helpless. The only thing that will save me is my trust that I will be saved by someone more capable than myself. I have a promise of salvation, and no matter how hopeless, disturbing, troubling, terrifying, tragic the situation, I will be saved. There is no need for fear or doubt.

I take comfort in that.