You’d think that everyone could get behind a movie that calls out child trafficking and attempts to rally support for ending it by raising the visibility of the huge issue, particularly one that received an A+ on CinemaScore and a 99% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. You might think that, but the woke media has instead tried to discredit the film.
As background, Angel Studios, which produced the movie, notes that “SOUND OF FREEDOM is based upon the true story of former government agent Tim Ballard who quit his job to rescue a little girl from sex traffickers in the Colombian jungle. In the process, Tim ended up saving 123 people, 55 of which were children, from one mission alone.”
So that’s what the woke media is trying to discredit by positioning it adjacent to conspiracy theories. Rolling Stone, for instance, tweeted, “REVIEW: ‘Sound of Freedom,’ the QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking, is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer.”
The article Rolling Stone included in that tweet was titled, “‘Sound Of Freedom’ Is a Superhero Movie for Dads With Brainworms,” and the subheading said, “The QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer.”
REVIEW: 'Sound of Freedom,' the QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking, is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer. https://t.co/XSFFsWV6Me
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) July 7, 2023
CNN went on the warpath as well, bizarrely encouraging people to not watch the movie exposing the vast sex-trafficking problem and running the chyron, “HOLLYWOOD QANAON PROMOTER’S MOVIE IS HIT AT BOX OFFICE.” Watch that here:
CNN encourages viewers not to see anti-pedophile movie Sound of Freedom. pic.twitter.com/wBTkLhWkbW
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 8, 2023
As you can hear in the clip, Abby Phillip, the CNN host, tried to discredit the movie, saying, “And you seem pretty familiar with him because he doesn’t really hide his association with this real wild plot that that involves, you know, drinking the blood of children and things like that.”
That’s when Mike Rothschild, the guest, joined in the bashing of the anti-sex trafficking movie and said, “No, he doesn’t hide it at all. And you have a lot of people who are in this world of Q anon who say, ‘Oh, they don’t know what that is. I’ve never heard of it. They’re just asking questions with somebody like Jim Caviezel.’ He is openly embracing it. He’s openly using its catchphrases and its concepts. He’s speaking at Q anon conventions, and this film is being marketed to either specific Q anon believers or to people who believe all of the same tenets is queuing on, but claim they don’t know what it is.”
Phillip then noted that the issue is real but tried to connect it to conspiracies, asking, “And the Sound of Freedom does focus on a real issue of sex trafficking. But that theme, it’s sort of like that kernel of truth that feeds the Q anon conspiracy theory. Tell us how those two things work together.”
Rothschild, in response, said that the filmi is creating a “moral panic” and insinuated that that is a bad thing, saying, “Sure, and the most durable and the most believable conspiracy theories are not entirely false. There’s something in them that is true, and the rest of it is false. But the believers point to the one true thing and they say, ‘Oh, you don’t believe that this particular thing is true.’ In terms of child trafficking. We know trafficking is real. We know it has real victims. No one is denying that. But these films are created out of moral panics. They’re created out of bogus statistics. They’re created out of fear. And it was something like Sound of Freedom. It specifically is looking at…concepts of these child trafficking rings that are run by the high-level elites. And only people like Tim Ballard and only people like Jim Caviezel, and by extension, only people like the ticket buyer can help bring these trafficking rings down. So there’s a very participatory elements. You’re not just going to see a movie you’re just killing two hours on a hot day. You are helping bring down these these pedophile rings and save children.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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