What a great deep dive. As I was reading this, I kept thinking about 2008’s “Taken.” So I chuckled at the Liam Neeson reference. But I do think that movie mainstreamed the idea that your daughter was going to get trafficked by nefarious Eastern Europeans or Russians. That the movie also came out a decade after the rise of high-end strip clubs that (in NYC at least) which seemingly employed an endless stream of Eastern European women “brought over” by the Russian mob made the movie’s take (American women are now in danger!) all the more fascinating.
What a great deep dive. As I was reading this, I kept thinking about 2008’s “Taken.” So I chuckled at the Liam Neeson reference. But I do think that movie mainstreamed the idea that your daughter was going to get trafficked by nefarious Eastern Europeans or Russians. That the movie also came out a decade after the rise of high-end strip clubs that (in NYC at least) which seemingly employed an endless stream of Eastern European women “brought over” by the Russian mob made the movie’s take (American women are now in danger!) all the more fascinating.