Taken

Taken is the story of a young girl who goes to Paris with one of her friends for a couple weeks and suddenly finds herself kidnapped and sent into the sex trade. Liam Neeson plays her father, Bryan Mills, a very skilled man who says that he was hired to "protect people" in the past. He goes to Paris in search of her and takes down many people who participate in the trade and those who take these young girls. He fights his way through the shady underground until he finally finds his daughter being bid on in a secret room. He finally gets to her and saves her from this terrible fate and this life in the sex trade.
This movie while enjoyable for the fact that it's a thriller, is actually quite real. Alright, so Liam Neeson coming to save everyone and the actual underground type of system might be a little unrealistic. However, the sex trade and human trafficking is a very real thing in this world. This movie examines the threat that it causes and how many people could be involved without us even knowing about it. This movie is arguably also more terrifying for females. Yes, the girl in the movie did absolutely everything wrong by telling people where she was staying and riding in a cab with a man she didn't know thus showing him where she was staying and that they were staying alone. However, this movie makes females so much more aware of the dangers that they face when traveling alone and how easy it can be to mistake simple kindness for something much more dangerous.
This film, while exciting and thrilling, is actually very interesting to think about the possibilities of the dangers.