Obsession is the ultimate weapon.

The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
The Vanishing keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.