Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: TRAP Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 14:14:27 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:14:28 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a5ad3c5a8007e9f94563c270bc065135"; logging-data="1755576"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4likD9T2lqFBmtJhhXfcgdST0UfZHTi8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:qKhEUyAvL9P+PleRHTqXwxsxIB4= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3193 On 11/5/2024 12:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On Nov 3, 2024 at 2:48:47 PM PST, "moviePig" wrote: > >> >> A father brings his 12-year-old daughter to a pop diva's concert, >> unaware that police have it targeted with a manhunt. TRAP (on MAX) is a >> PG-13 thriller from M. Night Shyamalan that defies credibility so often >> that tension never finds a foothold. Still, Shyamalan does know how to >> keep boredom at bay. Somewhat recommended, > > It was decent as a thriller but they threw any semblance of realism out the > window to accomplish it. > > The idea that they could legally subject any adult male who was in attendance > at the concert to forcible interrogation, literally pulling them out of the > stands in front of their kids and ruining an experience that-- if the allusion > to Taylor Swift concerts is accurate-- likely cost them many hundreds, if not > more than a thousand dollars, and which their children would have been > anticipating for the better part of a year and that they could do all this > without repercussion, is laughable. > > I mean, it's a good chance that there could be cops, federal agents, lawyers, > judges, etc. all in that group of 3000 men that they were lining up en masse > at the exits and refusing to let them leave and forcing them into tents to be > interrogated by FBI agents. Or just normal citizen who know their rights. Any > or all of them could just say, "I'm invoking my 5th and 6th Amendment rights > and refuse to answer questions from police." Then what? Did the FBI think they > could continue to hold them prisoner? Even holding any of them up to that > point without individual particularized suspicion opens them up to massive > legal liability. Continuing to do so after they've invoked only compounds the > size of the settlement the government will have to pay. > > The whole setup was a complete legal farce, but if you can suspend your > disbelief over that, it was a decent enough movie. ....not to mention, from another angle, what king of loony mother could willingly send her child forth into such circumstances.