Unlike other films about aliens, Taken does not focus most of his energy on aliens, but on the CLARKE family of alien descendants, the KEYS family who were abducted by aliens, and the CRAWFORD who tracked aliens. On the family, three generations of three families, 50 years of grievances and grievances are vividly displayed in this film that is not exciting but makes people watch with gusto.
Everything is for the appearance of one person, the crystallization of the CLARKE and KEYS families, ALLIE (played by Dakota Fanning) of one-eighth alien blood. A nine-year-old little girl has alien thoughts and human feelings, and has become a common pursuit of humans and aliens. ALLIE is undoubtedly the core of this film.
episode01 Beyond the Sky, directed by Tobe Hooper. Beginning with the Roswell incident, the fates of the three families are intertwined.
episode02 Jacob and Jesse, directed by Breck Eisner. This is where the story of second generation Jacob CLARKE and Jesse KEYS begins.
episode03 High Hopes, directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan. Jacob's superhuman idea and Jesse's being kidnapped, Owen CRAWFORD kills his wife.
episode04 Acid Tests, directed by Bryan Spicer. This episode is a tragedy, the twins who are also descended from aliens did not survive as Jacob, but became the devil in the eyes of the people around them. Eric CRAWFORD watched his brother Sam die with the poor twins in the flames, and angered his father Owen to death.
episode05 Maintenance, directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá. As in the title Maintenance, the story continues, with Eric taking over from Owen to track aliens, and Jesse's son Charlie inheriting the fate of being abducted by aliens.
episode06 Charlie and Lisa, directed by Thomas J. Wright. Charlie KEYS and Lisa CLARKE never met, but gave birth to their child ALLIE, the beautiful little girl (Little ALLIE is played by Dakota Fanning's sister).
episode07 God's Equation, directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan. ALLIE's abilities surprise everyone and Eric is killed by his daughter Mary.
episode08 Dropping the Dishes, directed by Jeff Woolnough. USarmy Vs. ALLIE.
episode09 John, directed by John Fawcett. ALLIE escapes, returning her great-grandfather John of alien blood.
episode10 Taken, directed by Michael Katleman. ALLIE is gone and will be back.
The most thought-provoking thing in the film is ALLIE's narrative, and I took some and put them below:
ALLIE: Sometimes when you go someWhere far away and then come back, the part that bothers you most is not the things that have changed, but the way that other things have stayed the same, like you hadn't been anyWhere or done anything at all.
Sometimes when you come back from afar, what bothers you the most is often not the things that have changed, but that other things stay the same, like you didn't go anywhere and did nothing.
ALLIE: There are times when it seems like the whole world is afraid, when the fear is something you have to live with day in and day out.
When people get scared, they do a lot of different things, they fight or they run, they destroy the thing they're afraid of, or they put a lot of distance between it and them. Make it something you can shoot at with a friction-action gun.
Sometimes it seems like the whole world is scared and you have to face it every day to fear. When people are afraid, they do a lot of things, they fight, they run away, they destroy what they're afraid of, or put a long distance between them and make it something you can shoot with a gun.
ALLIE: My grandfather used to tell my mum that kids should never have to worry about anything more serious than baseball. Everything you need to know is there. It has success and failure, moments Where you come together and moments Where you stand alone.
And it has an ending, not a clock like in other sports, but an ending.
My grandfather once told my mom that little kids don't have to worry about anything more serious than baseball. Everything you need to know is in baseball. There are successes and failures, sometimes together, sometimes alone. And there will be an end, not like time in other sports, but an end.
ALLIE: People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give those names. So saints look for God and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away the mystery, to take away the fear.
People like to investigate what scares them, to get to know them, to name them. So saints go to God, and scientists go to evidence. They are all just trying to unravel the mystery and take away the fear.
ALLIE: We all like to think that we have some control over the events in our lives. And a lot of the time we can fool ourselves into thinking that we really are in charge. But then something happens to remind us that the world runs by its own rules and not ours and that we're just along for the ride.
We all think we have some control over what happens in our lives and most of the time we can fool ourselves that we really have control. But something happened to remind us that the world works according to its own laws, not ours, and we are just free riders.
ALLIE: You know in cartoons, the way someone can run off a cliff and they're fine. They don't fall until they look down? My mum always said that was the secret of life. Never look down. But it's more than that. It's not just about looking. It's about not ever realizing that you're in the middle of the air and you don't know how to fly.
You know how in the cartoon they run over cliffs and get unharmed, they don't fall without looking down? Mom always told me that was the secret of life. Don't look down. More importantly, not only don't look down, but never realize that you're in the air and can't fly.
ALLIE: The world is made up of the big things that happen and the small ones. And the part that's so unfair is that we call them "big" and "small. "Because when something happens to you, when you lose something or someone that you really care about, that's all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don't care about that. You don't care about that at all.
The world is made of big things and little things that happen, And it's not fair that we call them "big" and "little" because something happens to you, you lose people and things you do care about, that's all, even though the world is exploding around you, but you Don't care, you don't care at all.
ALLIE: I have this idea about why people do the terrible things they do. Same reason little kids push each other on the schoolyard. If you're the one doing the pushing, then you're not going to be the one who gets pushed . If you're the monster, then nothing will be waiting in the shadows to jump out at you. It's pretty simple. Really. People do the terrible things they do because they're scared.
I have this for why people do bad things The idea of is the same reason that you push me to fight with children on the playground. If you hit someone, then you are not the one being hit. If you're a monster, there's nothing in the shadows waiting to jump out and scare you. It's simple, really, people do bad things because of their fears.
ALLIE: We're all standing on the edge of a cliff. All the time, every day. A cliff we're all going over. Our choice isn't about that. Our choice is about whether we want to go kicking and screaming or whether we might want to open our eyes and our hearts to what happens once we start to fall.
We are all standing on the edge of a cliff, a cliff that we have to cross every moment. Our choice is not about how to get over it, our choice is whether we struggle and scream or open our eyes and hearts when we start to fall.
ALLIE: What makes us human? That we can think? That we can feel sorrow and pain? Maybe. That we can laugh? I hope so. We can hurt and we can laugh and we know a past and a present. And, in some ways. A future. Maybe what makes us human is that we know just enough to think we know Where we're going.
What makes us human? Can we think? Can we feel sadness and pain? Maybe. do we laugh? I hope it will be. We will be sad, we will laugh, we know the past and the present and, in a sense, the future. Perhaps what makes us human is that we know where we're going.
ALLIE: When you're a kid, anything can take you away-- soap bubbles or a hose spraying a rainbow up over a new-mowed lawn. I guess growing up means that it gets harder and harder to find your way back to that kind of place Where you can be taken. The one time I see grownups with that same sort of look on their faces is when they're just at first falling in love.
When you were a kid, all things got you Go - soap bubbles or rainbow-spraying hoses on freshly mowed lawns. I want to grow up thinking it's getting harder and harder to find a place where you can be taken. The only time I've seen this look on an adult's face is when they've just fallen in love.
ALLIE: Some people spend their lives hoping for something to happen that will change everything. They look for power or love, or the answers to their biggest questions. I think really what they're looking for is another chance, some way to lead another life Where all the mistakes they've made would be erased, and they could just start over. Nothing bad has happened yet, and all their possibilities are still in front of them.
Some people spend their lives expecting something to change everything to happen , they look for strength or love, or answers to their big questions. I guess what they're really looking for is another opportunity to be able to live a life where all the mistakes they've made go away and start over. Nothing bad happened, and all their possibilities lay before them.
ALLIE: People come home for a lot of reasons. They come home to remember. They come home because they've got no place else to go. They come home when they're beaten. They come home when they're proud. They come home come home looking for a door out into their past or a road out into their future. They come home for a lot of reasons, but they always come home to say good-bye
. They go home to remember, they go home because they have nowhere to go, they go home because they are defeated, they go home because they are proud, they go home because they are looking for the door that always leads to the past or the way to the future. They go home for many reasons, but most of the time they go home to say goodbye.
ALLIE: Some people put a lot of work into their lawn, as if a patch of green grass was the most important thing in the world, as if they thought that as long as the lawn out front was green and mowed and beautiful. it wouldn't 't matter at all what was going on inside the house.
Some people work hard on their lawns, as if the most important thing in the world is a green space, as if they think that as long as the lawn in front of their door is green and well-manicured, it doesn't matter what happens in the house.
ALLIE: When everything in your life is right on track; it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It's easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it's very hard to hold on to that faith. It's hard not to wonder whose reasons these things happen for.
When everything in your life is on track, it’s easy to believe that things happen for a reason, and it’s easy to have beliefs. But when things go wrong, it's hard to keep that belief, and it's hard to think about why these things happened.
ALLIE: People move through their lives sometimes without really thinking about Where they're going. Days pile up, and they get sadder and lonelier without really knowing why they're so sad or how they got so lonely. Then something happens--they meet someone who looks a certain way or has something in their smile. Maybe that's all that falling in love is-- finding someone who makes you feel a little less alone.
And people migrate without knowing where they're going. Day by day, they become more sad and lonely, and they don't know why they are so sad and lonely. Then something happens - they meet someone who seems natural or has something in their smile, maybe that's what falling in love is all about - find someone who makes you feel less lonely.
ALLIE: People say that when we grow up, we kick at everything we've been told. We rebel against the world our parents have worked so hard to bring us into, that part of growing up is kicking at the ties that bind. But I don't think that's why we kick at all. I think we kick when we find out that our parents don't know much more about the world than we do. They don't have all the answers. We rebel when we find out that they've been lying to us all along, that there isn't any Santa Claus at all.
People say that when we were growing up, we were against everything we were told. We rebel against the world our parents have worked so hard to bring us into, and part of growing up is against bondage. But I never thought that was why we objected. I think we object because we find that parents don't know more about this world than we do. They don't have all the answers. We resisted because we found out they were lying to us all the time, like there was never any Santa Claus.
ALLIE: My mum 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 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. It's not your old life at all, but your new life with a wall around it. Your choice is not about going back to the way things were.
Mom used to tell me that when you're afraid of something, the first thing you want to do is drive it away. You want to get back your life before you discovered the things that scared you. You want to build a high wall and live your old life in it. But nothing is set in stone. This is no longer your old life, but a new life surrounded by walls. Your choice is not to go back to the past.
ALLIE: Sometimes the best way to move into the unknown is to take familiar steps, small steps, to do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way ordinary. We're always going someplace new. All the time. Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory. You take those small, familiar steps, and you try to be honest, not to live as if nothing had changed, but still to go on with your life. But there are times when what you need is a piece of how things used to be.
Sometimes the best way to enter the unknown is to take similar steps, small steps, to solve unconventional problems in a conventional way. We go to new places constantly, and constant, familiar things only make us pretend that we haven't set foot in unfamiliar places. You take these small, familiar ways, you try to be honest, don't live as if everything has been changed, but go on with your life. But sometimes you need things the way they were.
ALLIE: My mum says that life is like a roller-coaster ride. There are ups and downs; there are big scares and slow builds and places Where it levels out. The only difference with this roller coaster is that every time it stops, you get off in someplace totally different From Where you got on.
Mom said it was better than a roller coaster. There are ups and downs, scary at times, slow places and flat ones. The only difference is that every time the roller coaster stops, where you get off and where you get on is simply not the same.
ALLIE: If a dream is just a dream, something that happens in your mind while you're asleep, then that's all right. It's yours to take with you into the morning, and it fades away there in the light. But when the dreams start to come while you're awake and they come with the light, then that is not all right. What we look for then is other people who have dreamed what we've dreamed. Who have seen what we've seen. When the dreams become real, sometimes the only comfort you can find is in knowing that you're not
alone That's what you bring to the morning, fading in the sun. But when dreams start appearing while you're awake, that's not right. What we are looking for is the person who dreamed what we dreamed and saw the person we saw. When dreams come true, sometimes the only comfort you can find is finding out that you are not alone.
ALLIE: When you've done something that you can't take back, something that you don't understand, you start to hold tightly to the things you do understand, and you try to make sense out of everything you can. Because if you believed that all you had to do to make things right was to find a reason, but what happens when you find the reasons and they are not your own? How do you find any comfort or any sense in that
? The things you can't restore, the things you don't understand, you start to hold on to what you know and do your best to understand everything. Because if you believe that all you have to do is find the cause, but what happens when you find the cause and it's not yours? How do you find comfort or feeling in it?
ALLIE: People believe what they want to believe. They find meaning Where they can, and they cling to it. In the end, it really doesn't matter what's a trick and what's true. What matters is that people believe
. Want to believe something. They find the meaning they can find and stick to it. In the end, it doesn't matter what is true or false, what matters is what people believe.
ALLIE: 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? Is
everything in our lives preordained? If yes, it relieves us of responsibility for what we do, or that responsibility is predestined. After you hit the ball, do you stand to see if it goes out, or do you start running and let nature take care of it?
ALLIE: Most of the fights people have are about something simple-- you want something the other person has, or maybe they're afraid you're going to want it, and they go after you first. People always think that if they win , then that's the end. Everything will be all right From then on. But everything changes, and tomorrow, the thing you were fighting for will just be a memory. Like everything else, it's already happened.
The reason people struggle most of the time is simple - you want something from someone else, or they're afraid you want it, and they follow you. People always think that if they win it's over, that's when everything's going to be okay. But everything changes, and tomorrow, what you once fought for is just a memory. Like everything else, it happened long ago.
ALLIE: How do you let someone go? How do you understand that that's all right, that everything changes? How do you find a way for that to make you feel good about life instead of breaking your heart? The hardest thing you'll ever learn is how to say good-bye.
How do you let someone go? How do you know that's okay, everything is changing? How do you find a way to make your life feel good and not break your heart? The hardest thing you'll learn is to say goodbye.
ALLIE: I don't know what will happen next. I don't know what I'm going to be, what I'm going to learn, but what I do know is this-- life, all life, is about asking questions. Not about knowing answers. It is wanting to see what's over the next hill that keeps us all going. We have to keep asking questions. Wanting to understand. Even when we know we'll never find the answers, we have to keep on asking the questions.
I don't know what's going to happen next, I don't know what I'm going to be like, what I'm going to know, but all I know is - life, all life, is asking questions, not knowing answers . Just wondering what's over there on the mountain that keeps us going. We keep asking questions, trying to understand that we have to keep asking questions even when we know we will never get answers.
ALLIE: There's a feeling you get sometimes in a bad dreams you're running and something dark and big is chasing you and you want to just stop to let the dark, big thing catch up with you. Something bad is going to happen, you can't change that, but you can turn and see it coming. You can see the face of your bad dream.
Sometimes you have a feeling in your bad dream, you run and run and something big black and big chases you, You just want to stop and let that big black thing catch up to you. When something bad happens, you can't change it, but you can look back and see it come. You can see the face of your nightmare.
ALLIE: 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 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. You have to keep going as if it all mattered, or else we wouldn't keep going at all.
People talk so much as if the most important thing in life is the way things are. But everything we do, every plan we make is some kind of lie,
ALLIE: People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were just born too mean, or maybe they were born too tender. But most people are brought to Where they are by circumstance, by calamity or a broken heart or something else happening in their lives that weren't anything they planned on. People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. The one thing that I do know is, it doesn't matter what any one of them might tell you--nobody wants to be alone.
People live alone in this world for various reasons. Some people are destined for many things, maybe they were born into poor families, or they were born very weak. But most people have their own circumstances, disasters, broken hearts, or some other misfortune they didn't expect. There are many reasons why people live alone in this world. One thing I know is that no one wants to be alone, no matter what people tell you.
ALLIE: Some people have given up all hope of anything in their lives every changing. They just go on with it day by day, and if something were to come along and make things different they probably wouldn't even notice it right off, except for that kind of nervous feeling you get in your stomach. My mom and I used to call that "the car trip feeling", because it was how I'd feel whenever I knew we were going to go someWhere far away or something new.
Some people give up all hope in life, all change. They just go about their lives day in and day out, and if something happens and makes things different, they probably won't notice it right away unless it's an uncomfortable feeling. My mom and I used to call it "the feeling of traveling by car" because it's what it feels like whenever we're going far away or exploring something new.
ALLIE: Everyone knows not to stare into the sun. It's something your mother tells you when you're a kid. "Don't look at the sun or you'll go blind." But sometimes you want to understand something so badly that you'll risk going blind for just a glimpse of what it all might be about.
Everyone knows not to stare into the sun. Here's something your mom told you when you were a kid. Don't look at the sun or you will be blind. But sometimes when you want to know something bad, you risk going blind by glancing to see what it is.
ALLIE: My father liked to say that there were these things in life that didn't make any sense, and they could never make any sense, and if you were anyWhere near smart, you knew that. But your job was not to give up , to keep on trying to make sense out of them anyway, trying to understand things that could never be understood. I guess maybe people will always find different names for their answers, but the one thing is, their questions will always be the same.
My dad likes to say that there are things in life that don't make any sense at all, and will never make any sense, as long as you're smart, you should understand. But don't give up your work, try to make your work meaningful anyway, to understand things you'll never understand. I guess people will probably always look for names with various different answers, but for one thing, their questions are always the same.
ALLIE: I don't know what will happen next. I don't know what I'm going to be, what I'm going to learn, but what I do know is this—life, all life, is about asking questions , not about knowing answers. It is wanting to see what's over the next hill that keeps us all going. We have to keep asking questions, wanting to understand. Even when we know we'll never find the answers, we have to keep on asking the questions.
I don't know what's going to happen next time, I don't know what I'm going to be like, what I'm going to know, but all I know is that all life is about asking questions, not knowing the answers. That was wondering what was behind the mountain that kept us going. We have to keep asking questions, expecting to know that we have to keep asking questions even when we know we will never find the answers.
ALLIE: My mother always talked to me a lot about the sky. She liked to watch the clouds in the day and the stars at night, especially the stars. We would play a game sometimes; a game called "What's Beyond the Sky?" We would imagine darkness or a blinding light or something else that we didn't know how to name. But of course, that was just a game. There's nothing beyond the sky. The sky just is, and it goes on and on, and we play all of our games beneath it.
My mother always told me a lot about the sky. She likes to watch the clouds during the day and the stars at night, especially the stars. We sometimes play games, a game called "What's out of the sky?" We imagine darkness, or dazzling light, or other things we don't know how to name, but, of course, it's just a game, there's nothing over there in the sky. The sky is the sky, endless, and we play our game under it.
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