As I was watching 'Take' I kept asking myself why this movie had been made. Very early on we know that a man is going to be executed and a child will be killed. I kept waiting for the child to already be dead to get it over with. Why show the abduction in such graphic detail? Why show the mother repeatedly wailing? We all know that having your child murdered is maybe the most horrible thing that can happen. The film was NOT made to advocate the meeting of victims/ perpetrators like it says at the very end. The set up for that is nonexistent. The director/ writer tries to be artsy with all the confusing flashbacks and set ups that don't lead anywhere (you see the mother waiting for her boy to come out of the rest room at a rest stop and he never does. It's totally unclear that he's a ghost at this point. The woman's husband whom she has a good relationship with just disappears. To me it was a film made for effect and gratuitous in terms of subject and violence. The actors were very good. I always enjoy Minnie Driver's work.
Review of Take
