Abducted (2021) Film Review

Directed: Daniel Foreman

Screenplay: Daniel Foreman

Starring: Joel Oulette, Chris Pereira, Olivia Kate Iatridis

Abducted (2021) Film Review

By Talon Giroux

I was given the opportunity to view and write about Abducted, the movie is a very great example of very very, real and alive problems for Indigenous people.

A lot of people think that it’s in the past, or it ain’t real, when in reality, indigenous people live with the same problems every single day. Although the movie is triggering, it’s a good kind of trigger, it gives me sense that it ain’t just small communities experiencing these issues, but it’s happening worldwide and nationwide. 

It also focuses on Missing and murdered Indigenous women, and how quick and fast this becomes reality to Indigenous families world wide. Intergenerational trauma is a big part of this movie production, and how the colonial government handles our problems.

The fact that Indigenous peoples of Canada, and all over the world, don’t seek revenge, they seek reconciliation. Shows who’s more civil. In the movie when Joel Oulette, sets out to find his own sister is a great example of their reality, a recent case in Canada is the little Indigenous boy Frank a 5 year old boy of Saskatchewan "Search areas were decided upon based on the probability of how far a five-year-old could travel" no amber alert, because he didn’t meet the “requirements” though there was excessive searches done, I feel the media & police aren’t involved enough. 

The movie itself ties into capitalism, generational trauma, residential school, the economic and political system isn’t on Indigenous peoples side intentionally however publicly they like to make it seem so. Indigenous peoples are a product of geneicide, they were born with trauma that was forced on them, these crises of course were made by the colonial government, so how are they supposed to seek help from the ones who manufactured their crises?  It's a great question considering they never listen to what Indigenous people have to say, from the start, they ask for the bare minimum clean water, at least. There's a list of the numerous crises that Indigenous people face daily. So now that we've identified some of the crises indigenous peoples have and that they aren't going away anytime soon. how can we bring them into light, how do we seek help? How do we make the government get involved in their time of crisis? This movie is a perfect example of how to get people talking about it, communication needs community. Exceptional job, treaty 6 productions. In giving a voice to Indigenous peoples of canada.