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Detectives thinking that it was Dad...


What reason did they have to believe that he was somehow behind this whole thing? Debts? Financial troubles? The fact that he was the last person to see her? Wow! That was absolutely frustrating to watch - "so is she 9 or 10?!" haha.. It was frustrating to the point where it became hilarious..

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totally. when ryans character punched him out near the end i laughed so hard.

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In most cases the parents are the abducters. Thats why.

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Source?

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SouthPark Episode90.

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Google "child abduction facts." The percentages seem to be all over the place but parents are the most common perpetrators.

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Oh sweet lord.

Are you aware that a huge percentage of those 'reported' abductions are nothing more than one parent taking a child without the others or the legal guardians consent?

Once you get down to cases where the child is actually at harm the majority of perps are not the parents but boyfriends, family friends, relatives and close neighbours ... and in most of those cases there is a body.

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'reported' abductions are nothing more than one parent taking a child without the other's or the legal guardian's consent?


I thought they set it up for the NEW detective to get rather over-zealous on the matter. First day on the job she shows him a gallery of sexually abused and exploited children. The detective swears he will put an end to this kind of thing. What's more natural than this crusader trying to pigeonhole the father into the same crap, simply because he "reminds" him of a similar and real case?

You people are awfully quick to get out the pitchforks and bonfires, without considering all the factors--just like the detective.

What's more, you SUCK at standing down and taking back your hasty conclusions--JUST LIKE THE DETECTIVE.



"Oooo, lookee, a Sneerfest I can jump in on!!!"

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So because there are reasons for his professional incompetence we should think it acceptable? Hilarious.

Hasty conclusions?? ... neither hasty nor wrong.

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Yes, I couldn't believe the way that they were treating him. Maybe scenes were filmed and dropped in editing, but it looked like the police didn't even go to the crime scene -- they just started grilling the father. Really the weakest part of this film, and it had many weaknesses.

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Thank you for a very technical and predictably boring answer. They had no actual/tangible evidence to think he was the one who did and yet he was treated with contempt and extreme suspicion even after many years have gone by.

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in addition to those boring factual reasons that have clearly been tread (being the most common, and logical choice), as well as leaving his daughter alone in the truck along such a highway, being in financial stress (because it was hinted that he might have "rented" her to pornographers, see the scene with him and guy cop directly after abduction, in the hall), and of course, having been the last one to see her, and her not having spoken to her mother on the phone during the call.
Furthermore, there were the inconsistencies in his story, was she 9, or was she 10? why would a child this age be resting/napping in the afternoon (though i personally feel having just gotten out of intensive skating practice is a damn good reason), why would the kid NOT want to come in to get pie...

It seemed guy cop had a serious bias. he strongly had it in for him, he referenced him reminding him of someone. Ultimately, weak writing, or a scene cut.

The mother though, yeah, She didn't seem to think he was "in on it", but never the less, she totally blamed him, cause he was responsible for her, and she got taken on his watch, when he was by his own admission being completely irresponsible by leaving her in the truck alone.

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The parents of Madeleine McCann were not in financial trouble, yet they were very much treated as suspects. 

It's their job to consider all possibilities.


When I'm gone I would like something to be named after me. A psychiatric disorder, for example.

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I thought some of the questions were ridiculous ("Why would she be resting/lying down?") but he was suspected based on previous cases the detective had experienced.

Passion is just insanity in a cashmere sweater!

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In most cases the parents are the abducters. Thats why.


We get that. Parents, husbands, wives, family, etc., are the first suspects.

But the OP is right. The father went straight from the gym to the bakery. So there was a very tight timeline that should have ruled him out. It was easy to check and they didn't.

And the business about it being unusual for a 9/10 year old laying out in the back of the SUV. She had just left a grueling ice skating practice session. She had the goal of being an Olympian, she wasn't just messing around. The idea that she would not do that was just ridiculous. And the wife buying it really ticked me off. And why wasn't the SUV door locked? It's not safe to ride with unlocked doors especially for kids. Don't understand how they got her so quietly. And making the bakery clerk's testimony so crucial... come on. Was she focused on waiting on him or the truck parked outside? If she was so focused on that, she would have seen the abduction. Too many holes in this script. No wonder it was booed at Cannes.

I can understand initially focusing on the father, but at some point they should have realized that he was not a suspect.

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Detectives do that, they latch on the person in charge: family head, company head etc., squeeze them, and then the guy does the work of the police. I know of real life cases that were solved by innocent people to protect themselves from the police.

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