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...second best part of Taken is a phone message the movie's hero, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), leaves for the man who has just kidnapped his 17-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace). "I don't know who you are," Bryan says, his voice icy with a strong man's resolve. "I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare...
...psychological wrinkle: Bryan has a smothering love for Kim that stops just this side of the unnatural. He's quit his CIA job to be near her; he buys her gifts more suitable for a 12-year-old; he hovers galoot-like around her, less a sensible parent than the nerd next to her in chemistry class. He wants her to be Daddy's little girl, always and exclusively, and his devotion to Kim has made him her imaginary swain and something like her real-life stalker. Message to Bryan: Get your own girlfriend...
...Bryan may also have noticed that Kim and her pal Amanda (Katie Cassidy), left to their own devices, share that special mixture of naiveté and curiosity that makes them idiots. Before they've even gotten out of Charles de Gaulle Airport, they have blithely given their Paris address to a suspiciously friendly fellow who, in short order, dispatches some rough types there to kidnap the girls. The second message of this French-made film: Don't trust the French...
...HYUNG W. KIM...
...Eugene Kim ’10, a Crimson associate editorial editor, is a History concentrator in Kirkland House...