THOUGHTS ON "TAKEN"
About the movie
Taken spans five decades and four generations, centering on three families: the Keys, Crawfords, and Clarkes. World War II veteran Russell Keys is plagued by nightmares of his abduction by aliens during the war; the Roswell incident transforms Owen Crawford from ambitious Air Force captain to evil shadow government conspirator; the unhappily married Sally Clarke is impregnated by an alien visitor. As the decades go by, the heirs of each are affected by the machinations of the aliens, culminating with the birth of Allie Keys, who is the final product of the aliens' experimentation and holds the key to their future. - from imdb.com
The following are excerpts from the movie...
"Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? if it is, does that make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in, too? After you hit the ball, do you stand and wait to see if it goes out, or do you start running and let nature take its course?" - Allie Keys
What exactly are we meant to do in this world? Some people find out the answers when they are mere babes. Some know their true calling in an instant, some find it out on their own, and some, well, they just go about their usual way wondering if they were meant for greater things. How do we know what we are supposed to do? How do we find out?
Do we look in the mirror and say "I want to be a great artist" and it happens? If we are NOT meant for greater things, does living simply mean we have not been successful with our lives? What exactly is a successful life? Money? Riches?
"When you're little, you like to think you know everything, but the last thing you really want is to know too much. What you really want is for grown-ups to make the world a safe place where dreams can come true and promises are never broken. And when you're little, it doesn't seem like a lot to ask." - Allie Keys
Why is it we lose our confidence in certain things when we become older? Why do we believe some people are so much better than us? Is it because they are happier, prettier, richer, wittier? Why do we see ourselves as less knowledgeable, incompetent, unpolished next to these learned people? Don't WE know some things that they don't know? Is this the only way we know for sure we are more intelligent than other people? Because we know more things than they do? Because we memorized an entire encyclopedia collection?
"People talk a lot as if the most important thing in life is to always see things for what they really are. But everything we do, every plan we make, is kind of a lie. We're closing our eyes and pretending that the day won't ever come when we won't need to make any more plans. Hope is the biggest lie there is, and it is the best. We have to keep going as if it all mattered, or else we wouldn't keep going at all." - Allie Keys
Cross roads. How often do we encounter those in our lives? How often do we reach this certain spot and then freeze? And after we finally make a choice (difficult one, at that), we always wonder: Should we have taken the other road? What would our lives be like if we made a different choice? More importantly, should we spend the rest of our lives wondering? Always?
"My mom told me once that when you're afraid of something, what you want more than anything else is to make it go away. You want your life back to the way it was before you found out that there was something to be afraid of. You want to build a high wall and live your old life behind it. But nothing ever stays the same. That's not your old life at all. That's your new life with a wall around it. Your choice is not about going back to the way things were. Your choice is about hiding, or about going right to the heart of the thing that scares you." - Allie Keys
Maybe that is what we are supposed to do. Maybe living on earth means having to find out many things, means having to question a lot of things no matter how scary or unfamiliar they may be. How are we supposed to learn if we do not question the world? How are we supposed to grow if we take everything in stride?
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