Daily Dialogue — October 7, 2014

“You know, we used to outsource this kind of thing. But what we found was the countries we outsourced to had unreliable power grids. Very Third World. You’d turn on a switch — power wouldn’t come on, and then tempers would get short. People would resort to pulling fingernails. Acid drips on bare skin. The whole exercise would become counterproductive. But here, the power’s stable. Here, there’s a nice even flow. Here, you can flip a switch and the power stays on all day.”

— Taken (2008), written by Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen

Daily Dialogue theme for this week: Punishment. Today’s suggestion by James Schramm.

Trivia: Over the course of the movie, Bryan kills 35 people in order to get to his daughter.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by James: “I really like how Liam Neeson is so businesslike in this scene, here is the man who he talked with on the phone after his daughter was taken and his focus is solely on finding out where she is now, not revenge.”

If you have any suggestions for this week’s theme, please post in comments… and thanks!