Thursday, 8 April 2010

Textual Analysis- Taken

Narratives

Enigmas are created within the film as the audience wonder what sort of occupation Bryan had that made him leave his family that even his own family didn’t know what he did we find out later on in the film that he used to be a spy that worked for the government which mean that he had to put his job before his family. Other enigmas raised that wasn’t answered later in the film was opening of the gates at the concert and who the man was that wanted to kill the singer. Also as peter was walking away from the house he called someone and gave them information about Kim and her friend, this created enigmas as to who peter was calling and what type of person he is. From the time of the kidnapping and when brain finds out information about the men the enigmas are solved and we able to find out that the people peter called are pimps that have come to use the girls for prostitution and that peter was the ‘spotter’. More difficult enigmas created were such as what kind of man jean Claude was as he claimed to be a friend of Bryan but there was no sign of loyalty or true friendship as the film proceeded we found out that he knew all about the kidnapping that has been happening to many travellers and that he didn’t care as long as he got money out of it even if it means his own friends child being abducted.

Suspense is created in individual scenes for example at the concert when the singer is trying to get away we see a mysterious figure holding a knife the audience automatically thinks someone is going to get hurt, but then we see a glimpse of the skills which Bryan states he has later on in the film. Suspense is also created when the police in France knock Bryan out and hang him to a poll it makes the audience wonder if Bryan is going to die and what would happen to his daughter, but once again the audience is proven wrong with Bryan beating up the men around him killing them and continuing to get his daughter. As he gets on the boat again he is noticed by the antagonist who alerts the rest of his people we feel that as he didn’t notice they will capture him and kill him, but he some how is able to kill them one by one without them finding him first.

Information is revealed to the audience through the characters experience as his on the phone to his daughter everything she is describing to him us as the audience our able to see it visually, with finding out clue of to where his daughter might be we also find out at the same time as him as he unravels them. For example Bryan finding Kim’s jacket in a camp place with a girl, he takes the girl and finds out how and who gave her the jacket. we as an audience was unable to see this before it happened.