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Actors: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Taking Lives |
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An FBI agent heads to Montreal to work with the local police in a serial killer case. The killer kills people and takes their identities. A witness comes forward with information. However, things get complicated when the agent falls for the witness.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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A man who hates his own life starts killing people and becoming them by stealing their identities. Two Montreal cops and an FBI agent try to catch the killer. A local artist apparently becomes the killer's next target, so the cops begin working with him. The FBI agent falls in love with the artist. The artist kills the supposed killer. The case appears to be closed. However, the agent discovers that the artist, who's since escaped, is actually the killer. The agent, now pregnant with twins goes into hiding. The killer shows up and attacks her, but she fights him off and stabs him. That's when, just before he dies, he finds out that it was all a trap, the agent's not really pregnant.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Taking Lives |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- catching/stopping killer
Criminal enemy is...
- known killer
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- long, straight (woman)
Body type
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- killer
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Canada
City?
Yes
City:
- dangerous
Misc setting
- moving train
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- mental battles
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- run over
- decapitated
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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