Do you trivialize child trafficking? The accompanying child pornography and organ trafficking? Look, here is a film, The Sound of Freedom, which wants to draw attention to just that! What's more, terrifying formations appear behind the work: white and hetero Christians!
Here, for example, is the real protagonist, former CIA agent Tim Ballard, a father of many children, who fought as an undercover agent against pedophiles for about twelve years, which included writing thorough reports on all actions, stomach-churning images and videos captured at the locations, which they are later used as evidence against the arrested persons; and today, with his organization (Underground Operation Railroad - OUR), he is fighting a global social problem that rivals the rise of drug trafficking and affects millions of young people: child trafficking. Similarly, Jim Caviezel, who plays the protagonist, is known to many only from The Passion, as the turbo-Catholic actor portraying Jesus Christ. This is already a handicap for him, isn't it, since 2004, he hasn't been able to play the leading roles; but then there's also those frisky political views - such as alleged contact with the QAnon group in the United States.
Tim Ballard, who is also religious, and his organization are also linked here, but he tries to fend off the group producing extreme conspiracy theories.
We could write in this article that right-wingers should watch this film just because, of course, "it wasn't filmed under the supervision of just anyone: the wonderful, but often stigmatized, Mel Gibson was one of the producers. By the way, let's put our hands on our hearts: is it possible to find a better work if former US President Donald Trump and commentator Ben Shapiro are also standing next to it?
The numbers confirm the creators, but also the true conservatives! A movie made for 15 million US dollars brought in more than 240 million at the box office!
The latter, however, is a fact: Sound of Freedom will certainly be among the most successful shows at the end of this year - no, not because of Trump and the flat earth believers - alongside films for which the studios have similarly spent hundreds of millions on marketing.
So what does the film know, which, although it was already completed in 2018, Disney, which acquired 20th Century Fox, was not interested in distributing it? Neither do other streaming providers. (The creation was eventually embraced by Angel Studios.)
First of all, it must be stated that Sound of Freedom is a great propaganda thriller - with an extremely serious, weighty subject and a personal approach. The basic idea is that the problems arising from pedophilia and child trafficking will not be solved simply by disconnecting the criminals. Innocent young victims are not returned to their parents. They remain slaves. It is true, but it is precisely this messianic recognition that is connected to the circumlocutions that make it necessary to put the propaganda marker there. For example, the fact that Mexican-born actor Eduardo Verástegui (who plays Pablo, another producer of the film, Tim Ballard's assistant), met the real protagonist in Los Angeles in 2015, who said: the world's strongest superpower, the United States, cannot stop to order child trafficking because it is not a priority. From then on, his passion is film. Or here is another side dish: the real protagonist was also interviewed by clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson; and this revealed that he would not have been able to participate in such actions without his faith and the support of his family.
However, it does not follow from all this that what the former CIA agent did and is doing in real life, what the joint production of Mel Gibson and Eduardo Verástegui, directed by Alejandro Monteverde, wants to draw attention to, should not be frowned upon.
Especially since, thanks to the Ballards, thousands of minors can now be reunited with their parents; and the film itself can give further impetus to this noble fight and mission, especially as it alludes to it:
pedophilia, child trafficking flourishes most where the Sound of Freedom comes from: in the circles of the artistic, political and business elite.
And secondly, it was politics that made this work what it became: the mainstream media slapped all the negative labels on it because it hurts them to see white Christian men saving Third World children. Right-wing media and commentators are convinced that one of the most important films of all time has been made, which Lucifer himself wants to make impossible.
Regardless, it is recommended to watch! No one will be disappointed!
Featured Image: IMDB / Angel Studios