The main character of the film is Elizabeth Smart where she is
abducted at a young age in her own home, she was a kind, intelligent, shy, obedient, and a great daughter of Ed Smart and Lois Smart. Ed Smart was Elizabeth's father, he was a loving father to her children, kind and a hardworking as husband and father, while her mother Lois Smart was a wonderful mother, brave, kind, helpful and a devoted mother to his children .This included Elizabeth’s respectful, and cheerful siblings, one of them was Mary Katherine her younger sister who was always with her, an obedient and kind, she was the sister of Elizabeth who knew what had happened when she had been abducted at that night. And those who abducted her were Brian David Mitchell / Emmanuel and his wife Wanda Ilene Barzee. Brian David Mitchell was the kidnapper of Elizabeth, he also pretended as Emmanuel who was claiming that he was a prophet of God, because of that he was met by the Smart Family and even helped him. He has a bad attitude, mostly he do evil doings, like of his being thief, a liar, and a hypocrite. While his wife Wanda Ilene Barzee who was personally helped her husband in making his evil doing, especially by abducting Elizabeth, she also the one who hide and threatened Elizabeth while Elizabeth was with them. Wanda is mentally ill maybe because of her manipulated experiences. Plot A fourteen year old Elizabeth Smart is part of a large and loving Mormon family. They met a self-styled prophet named Emmanuel, asking for a change, and Lois, Elizabeth mother help him to recommend to his husband for help in remodeling their house, so Ed hires him as a handyman. Months later, Emmanuel returns and kidnaps Elizabeth one night. Her sister, Mary Katherine, who is in the bed with her, is too terrified to immediately tell her parents. After what happen a massive police investigation begins immediately. The Smarts are angered when the investigation questions whether any family members are involved in Elizabeth’s disappearance. A huge search effort begins and the story causes a media. But it has been proven that it is a false rumor that police suspect a family member. So that another new suspect has been found out it was Richard Ricci, who worked for the Smarts until he was fired when jewelry went missing, is arrested for a parole violation and the police suspect his involvement in Elizabeth's disappearance. Emmanuel subsequently tries to kidnap one of Elizabeth's cousins, but is unsuccessful. The Smarts learn Ricci has had an aneurysm and is now brain dead. After this, Elizabeth's mother gives up hope, the story fades into the background and the police stop looking for Elizabeth. At one point, Mary Katherine realizes that it was Emmanuel who took Elizabeth, but the police do not pursue this lead. Ed appears on the TV show and tells in confidence about the new information. When one of the hosts reveals it on American television talk show, the Smarts publish a sketch of Emmanuel, who is later identified as Brian David Mitchell. After having taken her to San Diego, Mitchell returns to Salt Lake City with his wife Wanda Ilene Barzee and Elizabeth. When the police accidentally come across the three of them and question them, Elizabeth identifies herself, resulting in Mitchell's arrest and Elizabeth's reunion with her family. A postscript revealed that Wanda Ilene Barzee was sentenced to 15 years in prison. After being deemed fit to stand trial, Brian David Mitchell was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Role of the Family
The role of an Smart family in the film is to have unity, cooperation and mutual love. There must be understanding. All together should work whatever happens, a family must be helpful to each member of it, having a supportive family is a real and good family. And one of the most important things a family should have is a good faith in God, trust is also number one in a family, trust to every members of the family and especially trust in God. A family must build up of a good understanding, and a good relationship to each other.
Role of the Parents
The role of the family in the film is to be strong, they need not to give up easily. They need to show to other people, especially to their other children that they didn’t giving up and strong, because they love their child. They need to be courageous with each other so that they can handle all of their problems, because the family must protect their children so it is their responsibility to look for their daughter, no matter how hard they need to explain to their other children what is happening. All they need is to control their selves; they need to not get angry. They didn’t even stop praying that their child will be in good shape and hopefully they will see it again. And they also need to convinced there selves that they can find Elizabeth, that Elizabeth is in a good hand because God in her side protecting her. Role of the Investigator Their role is to find Elizabeth who was abducted, they need to be responsible of what job they has. Their work is to prove who the kidnapper of Elizabeth Smart was, and to find were kidnapper place Elizabeth. And they need some evidence that will prove who are the real kidnapper
Faces of devil in the story
Brian David Mitchell presented himself in an image that was similar to the image of Jesus, dressing in white robes and tunics, and growing a beard. Wanda Ilene Barzee