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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: TRAP
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 14:14:27 -0500
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On 11/5/2024 12:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2024 at 2:48:47 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> 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.