This week I chose to watch and write about the movie, Taken. In this movie a young girl travels abroad to Paris with her friends. While she is there she gets kidnapped by men and becomes involved in human trafficking. Her father, played by Liam Neeson, is a retired CIA operative and travels over to Europe to save his daughter after being on the other end of a phone call with her when she is "taken". He ends up finding her in a brothel and rescuing her.
In this movie the young girl, Kim, starts out as an Soujourner because she is voluntarily coming to Europe to follow around her favorite band for a few months. After Kim gets taken by kidnappers she becomes a short-term refugee. At this point she is being forced against her will to stay in the country. She is only a short term refugee because after a few days her father finds her and is able to take her home to the U.S.
Kim experiences seperation when first arriving in Paris. At the airport her and her friend share a cab with a man they have never met. They do not know the culture but trust that no one is going to harm them. They are hanging onto their own cultural values while still trying to interact with the new culture. Because the girls had never traveled before they were unaware of the risks involved.
Kim has to take both the fight and flight approaches while she is kidnapped. Kim uses the fight approach when she is being taken she runs from the kidnappers and hides under a bed, when they do not leave she calls her father and keeps him on the line while she is being taken so that he can hear what is going on, she also shouts out descriptions of the men taking her because this will give him a better shot of finding her. She practices the flight approach by not cooperating with the men and staying withdrawn from the new life she has been forced into.
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