Politically Incorrect

I was quite pleasantly surprised with Liam Neeson’s newest film, Taken, for a few reasons.

Major attention was drawn to the ineptitude of the Bureaucratic form of both national and international governmental structures. Neeson’s character on a few occasions drew serious attention to the inability of those working behind “desks” to understand the true nature of how the world works, including those who formerly worked on the front lines, so-to-speak, of counteracting national and international crime. Such ineptitude not only includes the day-to-day red tape of rules and regulations but also the ease with which governments and their institutions corrupt for the sake of personal profit. Light is shed on, in this instance the sex trade, both alien nationals and domestic citizens turning a blind eye on morality and Just Law [for money].

Justice, then, in this movie’s format comes swiftly and from the hands of just one man. While no one has the right to, in theory, singlehandedly kill perpetrators the underlying principle is still correct: Wrong is wrong, evil is evil and it must be punished and Bureaucracies must stand aside so that one of the purposes of government, to protect its citizens, might function. Needless to say, when government is too corrupt and drunk with its own power, the individual has the right to protect himself and his family.

The sex trade and the basics in how it operates is the other plot driving the film. It is an evil which is global in breadth and needs more attention drawn to it. Barack Giggles Obama would, and is, use/-ing emperor-esque tactics via Executive Order and the so-called Council on Girls and Women to advance reproductive rights [think: entrenching the codification of the legality of abortion], which does nothing but trap girls and women into documented mental torture from murdering unborn children. He instead should be using his platform as the leader of the free world to draw attention to the international sex trade. And this is where the film is unabashedly politically incorrect. Rather than relying upon the government to do what is right, which is impossible on account of its immorality and corrupt nature, the individual is left to stand up for the least of these.

[On a side note, one should come away with the understanding that although women in the Western tradition, and especially in the United States, have the evils of Feminism to thank for their freedom to do, say and dress as they wish, this is still a fallen world ruled in a [now semi-] Patriarchal system. While this in no way implies the objectification of and/or the enslavement of women to whatever degree, I think a return to a form of conservative social behavior is long overdue, where the importance of the health of the family unit is of utmost importance. Since the father is the head of the family he has the responsibility to protect especially his wife and daughters from those seeking to bring harm in whatever form. Travel in both the domestic and international sphere means prudence and wisdom on the part of a woman’s personal actions. I think this is where Muslims have something to teach in the prudence of having a man with a woman when traveling.]

In any case, I would highly recommend seeing this movie, at the matinee price of course since no movie is worth more than that. For fans of intense action and drama, good writing and acting. And the fact that the film requires you to think about actions, consequences and the world at large is another thumbs up.