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Unethical Human Trafficking

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It is estimated that around 2.4 million people across the globe are victims of human trafficking and 80 percent of them are being exploited as sex slaves. The film Taken directed by Pierre Morel portrays how gruesome human trafficking can be and the effects it has on its victims. The action film is not only tended to entertain viewers, but it goes one step further by taking the opportunity to acknowledge the audience regarding unconditional love a father has for his daughter when she gets in the amidst of human trafficking situtaion.
Being held captive two thousand miles away from home; a young girl fears for her life while her father Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) a retired government agent goes to drastic measures to bring her back home. Bryan the main character of the movie gives up his life of being a government agent in hope of building a stronger relationship with his estranged 17-year old year old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace). When Kim and her best friend plan a trip to Paris, she gets help from her mother Lenore (Famke Janssen) to convince Bryan to reluctantly agree to the trip. While in Paris Kim gets abducted …show more content…

By sequences of events he learns that victims are forced into prostitution while becoming addicted to drugs. When he locates Kim’s best friend Amanda he discovers that she has died from an overdose of drugs, which makes him believe that Kim must be going through horrible encounters as well. As Bryan travels all around Paris in search of his daughter, the audience gets a glance of how the setting contributes to the movies development by experiencing a father’s determination to find his daughter in an unknown country. During many scenes the film depicts the horrible living conditions that victims have to deal with which makes the setting have a major effect on the plot throughout the

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