Caviezel stars as special agent Tim Ballard, a Homeland Security Investigations operative who really did work for the state busting up child-trafficking rings for more a decade.
In Sound of Freedom, he leads a unit to Colombia and eventually goes rogue on his single-minded quest to locate and liberate the still-missing sister of a boy he managed to save from sex slavery.
So the film, based on a true story, takes place in the same country as the 2018 Guardian piece which detailed the horrific abuse that was and probably still is, happening to children.
In much the same way as the paper views the Brexit or Trump victory, it is surprised and disgusted at the result.
However one chooses to slice it, Sound of Freedom has over-delivered on expectations in dollars and cents, a feat of profitability uncommon for a comparatively low-budget production without a major Hollywood-led promotional campaign. Judging by the robust round of applause that concluded the fully-seated screening I attended on Wednesday evening – and this, in the liberal Sodom of Manhattan! – it would seem that the folks at the two-year-old Angel Studios have tapped into a substantial and eagerly marshaled viewership.
I haven’t seen the film yet, nor would it shock me to learn that a lot of it is made up or exaggerated (in fact, I would be glad if it was!). However, what the Guardian doesn’t grasp is that the reason this film is already massively popular, is because we are aware of the horrific crimes that are being committed but they have stopped being reported on. Instead, any mention of sex trafficking leads to ad hominem attacks of being a QAnon cultist.
The fact of the matter is human trafficking “is a business that generates a profit of approximately $32 billion annually. UNICEF estimates that there are around 21 million trafficked people around the world. This figure includes some 5.5 million children…The UN Office on Drugs Crime’s report identifies that the most common form of human trafficking is sexual exploitation. This demand for human trafficking is most common in western and southern Europe (66%), central and south-eastern Europe (65%), followed by East Asia and Pacific (61%) and South America (57%). Conversely, trafficking for forced labour is most common in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (64%) followed by Sub-Saharan Africa”.
So, personally, I would rather a few more over-exaggerated (hopefully) films were produced, highlighting the terrible issues that are happening around the world as we speak, rather than sneering Guardian articles, probably written by somebody who thinks Brexit and Trump supporters are all QAnon supporting, right-wing lunatics. Then maybe things might start to change, instead of pretending these things don’t happen. But then that’s just me.
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I can’t express how grateful I am that you’ve picked up and posted on this ‘review.’
Thank you.
I was so appalled at the review’s angle – more invested in smearing the viewers of the film than the criminal, perverted, degenerate subject itself and its maimed and murdered victims, that not only did I feel quite nauseous, but I didn’t know how to complain adequately.
I am only comforted in thinking that the review's author is a cheap, inhuman Guardian bot.
Unfortunately, not even remotely exaggerated. The depravity of what's happening is truly appalling, and anyone who dismisses it likely has reasons to do so. I've been a fan of Tim Ballard for years, listening to him speak when I can, and I don't think there are many people on this earth with the ability and fortitude to go where he has and not just implode from the darkness.
I saw the film. It is a must see. And based upon my prior research regarding child trafficking, the film greatly understates the case. There are a lot of clues for those with ears to hear and eyes to see regarding compromises that the makers were forced by the CIA to concede in order to get the film to market. Sad. But still effective nonetheless. It is a triumph that they were able to get the film to market at all.
The thing is of course that it's risky to condemn child sexual abuse too vigorously. One's favorite writer or artist or political figure might be guilty of it. And it always comes out afterwards how many people in the circle of friends and acquaintances suspected but it's just so vulgar to interfere.
I remember how naively shocked I was to hear about rampant sexual abuse of minors in Buddhist orders. I mean--them guys?
If hypocrisy was spun into skeins of wool, you'd have enough to make blankets to keep the whole world warm.
Until around April/May 2020, one of the first things I used to do in the morning was head to the Guardian on-line. (And I would end the day by reading the paper copy of the NYT.)
Not since then (for both rags and others), and I am not missing anything useful.
"Back in 2018, when the Guardian was still just about reporting on important matters"
Sorry, I don't think so. The Grauniad became a captivr of the Security Services after it was raided and all its electronic equipment confiscated after its "involvement" in the Snowden episode with Glen Greenwald. A cynic would conclude that some sort of deal was cut at that time. SInce then, The Grauniad has become just another MSM journal but as a mothpiece of MI6 yet maintaining a "Hard Left" perspective. Difficult balance1
The Guardian, which I used to read avidly until April 2020 after which time I saw through their Scamdemic propaganda, is completely compromised. Thanks for pointing out their blatant hypocrisy by juxtaposing this “review” with their reporting on the same topic a few years before. What a joke the Guardian, the NYT, and all of mainstream media, is.
Great work! Thanks for helping expose this corporate rag known as The Guardian. You would think they'd get tired of spewing propaganda. Evidently, they are quite fond of their own lies.
The movie is excellent. We saw it on the Fourth of July. Everyone clapped in our theater too when it concluded. It was not gratuitously violent. It was respectful of the children victims. We were very impressed with the quality of the movie. We urge everyone we meet to go see it.
Like VAERS and its “10% publishing rate”, this film only scratches the surface - just enough to the point across without totally bombarding the sleeping masses. There is no exaggeration here.
Go do some research into Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), watch their two other films on Bitchute and you’ll get a slightly broader perspective of what has been happening. Then multiply that by factors of a thousand, even getting your darkest imaginings into the picture, and you’ll be even closer to the truth.
I guarantee this is the stuff of nightmares - and it’s happening to our children!
I have not seen the movie and probably won’t. But I have enough awareness of the issue to know that it is unlikely the movie exaggerates. The depth of depravity in matters of sexual perversity knows no limits.
Could it be that the same billionaires who were involved with Jeffrey Epstein in sex trafficking are directing The Guardian's biased coverage from behind the scenes? Clearly there's a major attempt to normalize adults exploiting children for sex in the media, so no wonder they brand this film "paranoid" despite the shocking statistics. Sickening.
It tells you how the movie is based on facts, except for the parts that aren't.
Also, considering there is no Qanon, there is only Q and Anons, their argument is mute, invalid, and most definitely a scripted teleprompter "go to" to bash, which SHOULD make everyone want to go see the movie even more so!
Perhaps when the 4 part docuseries (which MAY be called "Hidden War") produced by Mel Gibson will be more readily received once the blinders are taken off, which "Sound of Freedom" does. For those in the know, use it as a tool.
The gatekeepers are exactly where you would expect to find them and in places you always should have suspected.
Very good post BTW, pointing out the hypocrisy of the complicit media. They are like a mother who serves her children up to a child raping boyfriend/husband. Watching him carry on nightly and saying...he's so good with those kids and always gives them plenty of attention...".
These gatekeepers (and others) are why this evil plague of humanity, has flourished and thrived.
It makes one wonder if they would treat Katharine Gun like a QAnon conspiracy theorist, instead of a hero and take heaps of pride in running the story, as they did back then.
But it's really down to us, they are just the shills for the child rapists and sodomizers.
We as a collective and worldwide society, should agree that these traffickers are now on the list for open hunting. There should be bounties on their heads - to be collected only if they are brought in dead. We have tolerated this atrocity, being heaped on children, long enough.
Now you may and should damn well ask, "why don't we have death penalty laws and armies of law enforcement scouring the streets in EVERY country around the world, for these POS's??"
Indeed, why don't we??
For the same reasons you've never seen and never will see, the evidence that came from Pedo island and all the other evidence out there, that names, shows and connects the world's elite scumbags, with child rape, sodomy, abuse, trafficking and murder.
I am thankful for this movies and those who made it, in that they're putting this issue front and center...but what does it say about us, as a collective society, that it takes a movie, to get us all talking about this damn abhorrent issue?
Why the hell is this not a topic of discussion on a daily basis - the kids being raped sure don't get to turn away from it, when it gets too ugly and go do something else.
We should all be ashamed and hopefully motivated in that shame, to take action and save these children. They didn't ask for it, they did nothing wrong and are locked in lives of hell - hoping someone comes to rescue them - we are all that someone.
NE - So according to the Giardian - a tiny parasite (germ) that causes the diarrheal disease giardiasis - the Rumsfeldian unknown known, or cognitively what we do not like to know... in the guise of a QAnon adjacent thriller is seducing America? It will take much more than that... https://youtu.be/z6HFXWUmpos
Sad to see that the film is very 'light-on' the core perpetrators. Israelies were recently arrested in Colombia trafficking kids and pedophilia. And it didn't touch on the adrenochrome epidemic which is the cause of so many disappeared children every year.
Agree - I reckon they are overblowing the scale of the child thing...
I suspect this would be part of the Global Mass Demoralization campaign which includes pedo promotion... tranny freaks... mass illegal immigration ... much fakery involving 'senile' joe... etc etc...
Subliminally the effect is to make people feel that life is not really worth living ... and secretly yearn for extermination ...
This makes them more calm when the actual extermination begins... more accepting ...
The Hollywood elite are a depraved group of professional liars who's job is to deceive those watching into believing what they want them to believe. The lurid history of the acting/entertainment profession is well documented, Spacey, Polanski, Jackson, Weinstein .... Watching almost all of the latest movies they are all loaded with examples of the very violence, sexual exploitation, and government corruption, that they claim to abhor, all the while shoving the LGBTQ+, they are more special than anyone else nonsense down our throats. Hanks, De Niro, Sarandon, Penn, Madona, ... are all living in a depraved bubble void of any morals or conscience. It's become difficult to separate their talent from their stupidity and depravity, they truly are useful idiots..
I am a lawyer, who works on the Texas border. It is worse than the film depicts. Have you ever seen a dead 3 week old in a sex cradle board?
No one would be able to stomach what really happens.
I can’t express how grateful I am that you’ve picked up and posted on this ‘review.’
Thank you.
I was so appalled at the review’s angle – more invested in smearing the viewers of the film than the criminal, perverted, degenerate subject itself and its maimed and murdered victims, that not only did I feel quite nauseous, but I didn’t know how to complain adequately.
I am only comforted in thinking that the review's author is a cheap, inhuman Guardian bot.
The Guardian yet again disgraces itself.
Thanks again.
Unfortunately, not even remotely exaggerated. The depravity of what's happening is truly appalling, and anyone who dismisses it likely has reasons to do so. I've been a fan of Tim Ballard for years, listening to him speak when I can, and I don't think there are many people on this earth with the ability and fortitude to go where he has and not just implode from the darkness.
So you now have to link QAnon to try and delegitimize the very real problem of child sex trafficking? Good times…
I saw the film. It is a must see. And based upon my prior research regarding child trafficking, the film greatly understates the case. There are a lot of clues for those with ears to hear and eyes to see regarding compromises that the makers were forced by the CIA to concede in order to get the film to market. Sad. But still effective nonetheless. It is a triumph that they were able to get the film to market at all.
Media come out in defense of some odd things, but trying to defend child trafficking is, well, beyond the pale.
The thing is of course that it's risky to condemn child sexual abuse too vigorously. One's favorite writer or artist or political figure might be guilty of it. And it always comes out afterwards how many people in the circle of friends and acquaintances suspected but it's just so vulgar to interfere.
I remember how naively shocked I was to hear about rampant sexual abuse of minors in Buddhist orders. I mean--them guys?
If hypocrisy was spun into skeins of wool, you'd have enough to make blankets to keep the whole world warm.
Until around April/May 2020, one of the first things I used to do in the morning was head to the Guardian on-line. (And I would end the day by reading the paper copy of the NYT.)
Not since then (for both rags and others), and I am not missing anything useful.
"Back in 2018, when the Guardian was still just about reporting on important matters"
Sorry, I don't think so. The Grauniad became a captivr of the Security Services after it was raided and all its electronic equipment confiscated after its "involvement" in the Snowden episode with Glen Greenwald. A cynic would conclude that some sort of deal was cut at that time. SInce then, The Grauniad has become just another MSM journal but as a mothpiece of MI6 yet maintaining a "Hard Left" perspective. Difficult balance1
Typical from places like The Guardian. Seeing the movie today
The Guardian, which I used to read avidly until April 2020 after which time I saw through their Scamdemic propaganda, is completely compromised. Thanks for pointing out their blatant hypocrisy by juxtaposing this “review” with their reporting on the same topic a few years before. What a joke the Guardian, the NYT, and all of mainstream media, is.
Great work! Thanks for helping expose this corporate rag known as The Guardian. You would think they'd get tired of spewing propaganda. Evidently, they are quite fond of their own lies.
The movie is excellent. We saw it on the Fourth of July. Everyone clapped in our theater too when it concluded. It was not gratuitously violent. It was respectful of the children victims. We were very impressed with the quality of the movie. We urge everyone we meet to go see it.
Like VAERS and its “10% publishing rate”, this film only scratches the surface - just enough to the point across without totally bombarding the sleeping masses. There is no exaggeration here.
Go do some research into Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), watch their two other films on Bitchute and you’ll get a slightly broader perspective of what has been happening. Then multiply that by factors of a thousand, even getting your darkest imaginings into the picture, and you’ll be even closer to the truth.
I guarantee this is the stuff of nightmares - and it’s happening to our children!
I have not seen the movie and probably won’t. But I have enough awareness of the issue to know that it is unlikely the movie exaggerates. The depth of depravity in matters of sexual perversity knows no limits.
This is nothing
Have you seen how they used to talk about the Nazi problem in Ukraine
Could it be that the same billionaires who were involved with Jeffrey Epstein in sex trafficking are directing The Guardian's biased coverage from behind the scenes? Clearly there's a major attempt to normalize adults exploiting children for sex in the media, so no wonder they brand this film "paranoid" despite the shocking statistics. Sickening.
To know about it and to have it visualized are two different things my friend.
Same as with "The Passion."
Pretty sure this movie was made for the "normies" to awaken them without shell shocking them back into knowing blindness. That CANNOT happen!
Go see it and take an "uninformed" friend or 7 with ya. It will open the matter to discuss.
From O.U.R site...
https://ourrescue.org/blog/sound-of-freedom-based-on-true-story
It tells you how the movie is based on facts, except for the parts that aren't.
Also, considering there is no Qanon, there is only Q and Anons, their argument is mute, invalid, and most definitely a scripted teleprompter "go to" to bash, which SHOULD make everyone want to go see the movie even more so!
Perhaps when the 4 part docuseries (which MAY be called "Hidden War") produced by Mel Gibson will be more readily received once the blinders are taken off, which "Sound of Freedom" does. For those in the know, use it as a tool.
Much Love
The gatekeepers are exactly where you would expect to find them and in places you always should have suspected.
Very good post BTW, pointing out the hypocrisy of the complicit media. They are like a mother who serves her children up to a child raping boyfriend/husband. Watching him carry on nightly and saying...he's so good with those kids and always gives them plenty of attention...".
These gatekeepers (and others) are why this evil plague of humanity, has flourished and thrived.
It makes one wonder if they would treat Katharine Gun like a QAnon conspiracy theorist, instead of a hero and take heaps of pride in running the story, as they did back then.
But it's really down to us, they are just the shills for the child rapists and sodomizers.
We as a collective and worldwide society, should agree that these traffickers are now on the list for open hunting. There should be bounties on their heads - to be collected only if they are brought in dead. We have tolerated this atrocity, being heaped on children, long enough.
Now you may and should damn well ask, "why don't we have death penalty laws and armies of law enforcement scouring the streets in EVERY country around the world, for these POS's??"
Indeed, why don't we??
For the same reasons you've never seen and never will see, the evidence that came from Pedo island and all the other evidence out there, that names, shows and connects the world's elite scumbags, with child rape, sodomy, abuse, trafficking and murder.
I am thankful for this movies and those who made it, in that they're putting this issue front and center...but what does it say about us, as a collective society, that it takes a movie, to get us all talking about this damn abhorrent issue?
Why the hell is this not a topic of discussion on a daily basis - the kids being raped sure don't get to turn away from it, when it gets too ugly and go do something else.
We should all be ashamed and hopefully motivated in that shame, to take action and save these children. They didn't ask for it, they did nothing wrong and are locked in lives of hell - hoping someone comes to rescue them - we are all that someone.
You wouldn't wipe your arse with the guardian now. State media/Pravda.
Was the 2018 article even about child trafficking or was it about smearing Colombia as part of some other narrative?
NE - So according to the Giardian - a tiny parasite (germ) that causes the diarrheal disease giardiasis - the Rumsfeldian unknown known, or cognitively what we do not like to know... in the guise of a QAnon adjacent thriller is seducing America? It will take much more than that... https://youtu.be/z6HFXWUmpos
Sad to see that the film is very 'light-on' the core perpetrators. Israelies were recently arrested in Colombia trafficking kids and pedophilia. And it didn't touch on the adrenochrome epidemic which is the cause of so many disappeared children every year.
Agree - I reckon they are overblowing the scale of the child thing...
I suspect this would be part of the Global Mass Demoralization campaign which includes pedo promotion... tranny freaks... mass illegal immigration ... much fakery involving 'senile' joe... etc etc...
Subliminally the effect is to make people feel that life is not really worth living ... and secretly yearn for extermination ...
This makes them more calm when the actual extermination begins... more accepting ...
Although not (hopefully) involving children, human trafficking happens even in rural Saskatchewan, Canada (warning to Canadians... CBC link...):
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/rcmp-human-trafficking-work-basement-1.6899402#:~:text=Mounties%20arrested%20two%20men%20from,in%20a%20dank%2C%20unfinished%20basement.
I challenge anyone to read that Guardian article without throwing up.
Anyone else still remember the Guardian actually being a proper newspaper? Days long gone…
Many thanks for your article. The Guardian has some interesting articles but is heavily biased against Brexit, Trump supporters.
But pro vaccines
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2021/08/15/more-lies-the-guardian/
The Hollywood elite are a depraved group of professional liars who's job is to deceive those watching into believing what they want them to believe. The lurid history of the acting/entertainment profession is well documented, Spacey, Polanski, Jackson, Weinstein .... Watching almost all of the latest movies they are all loaded with examples of the very violence, sexual exploitation, and government corruption, that they claim to abhor, all the while shoving the LGBTQ+, they are more special than anyone else nonsense down our throats. Hanks, De Niro, Sarandon, Penn, Madona, ... are all living in a depraved bubble void of any morals or conscience. It's become difficult to separate their talent from their stupidity and depravity, they truly are useful idiots..
Imagine Charles in the dark, smirking at all the deranged right-wing theatre goers while plotting his article.
Does anyone know where we can see the movie in the U.K.? Or online?