The Taking Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Alexander O Philippe has made some of the most thought-provoking films-about-films in recent years, including 78/52 and Lynch/Oz. The Taking is not about one filmmaker, but about a place: Monument Valley, and its representation in the popular imagination, primarily of course in westerns, and especially -- obsessively -- in the western movies of John Ford. The movies have made this landscape an emblem for America, but this in itself is an act of colonization, a myth that obscures land theft and worse.