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THIS is why you don't take a baby to a 3rd world country


As the mother of a toddler, I just shook my head through the entire movie. We Americans expect to be able to navigate other countries like our own, but we can't. She wanted to take a vacation, so she took her new baby to a third world country by herself? when there are so many beautiful places in the US she could have gone where there are no cultural or language barriers. No place is 100% safe, but there are hundreds less obstacles here then in an unknown, foreign land, when your baby ends up missing.

Don't do it.

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i started watching up until the point the bitch took her new born to a third world middle eastern country .She's blond blue eyed isn't covered up i mean the absurdity of it all is insulting to my intelligence .Its like walking down the streets of a bad neighborhood here in america with jewelry on and pockets full of cash your asking to get robbed .The very concept of this film should of never made it off the table .Its stupid its contributing to a problem it offers no solution and it seems it was created by someone who spends the majority of their time .In coffee shops drinking over priced coffees someone who has no real world knowledge or experience and lives in a bubble .

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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Nice to see that you're so racist. Do you know what the chances of getting kidnapped actually are?

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I hear what you are saying, but the foreign travel makes more sense in the context of the movie.

(Some spoilers follow.)

Lisa (the mother) is a trained agent. She knows a lot about other cultures, other languages, and she also has weapons and combat training. She can certainly take care of herself and child in any remotely normal situation.

The vacation (based on what we saw) wasn't her idea. Her mother suggested it. The location of the vacation was because of some family connection (from the postcard we saw at the beginning of the movie). It had serious sentimental value.

She is suffering from postpartum depression and is medicated. She is also apparently (judging from flashbacks) still suffering from a trauma (fiery death in the family). So even if your concerns are all valid, perhaps she was not making a good decision because of her situation / state of mind.

She is having an affair with a married politician. In fact, she had his child. The politician is in the midst of a campaign, and a front runner. The last thing he wants is for his lover to be accessible to snoopy journalist sniffing around looking for dirt. Maybe he encouraged her to take her mother's advice and go on vacation, especially far away and overseas.

(Some speculation follows.)

I am only half way through the movie. I am starting to think that the politician did more than just encourage her. I'm thinking he set up the abduction, in the hope of removing the child from the political equation.

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Since when did Morrocco become a 3rd world country?
smh...Americans...

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