Why 'Sound of Freedom,' Jim Caviezel's controversial child sex trafficking film, is a hit

If Michael Moore did a movie bringing light to the horrific tragedy of sex trafficking I would likely watch it even though I disagree with him ideologically.

This is a touchy subject for me. My now 17yo who is adopted. She Never met bio dad and her bio mom is a mess. While ago She was targeted through Snapchat by a trafficker posing as someone else. He Leveraged personal Things about her and almost convinced her to come meet him. Because it was across state lines ( bad guy was not in Georgia ) the FBI was involved. I was told. “The next step was she goes to meet him and his ‘cool car’ and she’s never seen again “. It can happen. Only reason I found out is by throughly going through her phone. And no I didn’t think she needed access to apps or a smart phone but her bio mom chose otherwise. So I would take her phone from her and go through Eveything

 

Why?

All rational humans already agree that sex trafficking is abhorrent. Who needs to see a movie to “learn” that? Someone who was unconvinced until a 2023 movie: AVOID

Countless movies with universally agreed upon messages are just plain bad.

 

Are you saying this movie is “just plain bad?” Have you seen it and are able to comment because of watching it?

I suspect that most rational people in this country have no clue of the extent of sex trafficking. It’s a $150 billion a year industry.

 

I’ll be sure to use this same logic the next time Disney uses a black actor in a movie remake and the right cries about wokeness. “It’s hard for me to imagine anyone not liking this harmless kids movie unless you’re a racist.”

 

I agree and have no interest in seeing this type of movie.
I already saw Taken.

 

If all it took to condemn a movie was a vocal minority of people misinterpreting the point in an unbelievably stupid manner, then no movie tied to true events would succeed under that kind of scrutiny.

 

Because this is a classic case of good Republican politics, river.

The movie isn't political. But Fox News and Republicans know that Democrats often-times hate things simply because Republicans like them. Low and behold, that's precisely what's happening here.

Now, Democrats have fallen into the trap of disliking a movie simply because some Republican radicals like it when it's really just an apolitical movie that sheds light on the evils of sex trafficking. It should be one the easiest ways of actually uniting the country, but here we are with people saying "Fox loves it, so there must be something wrong with it."

 

Can be said of a couple of posters in here on both sides. I'd love to hear some of this chit said to my face. It won't happen, keyboards are complete insulation.

 

'Sound of Freedom' beats 'Indiana Jones' in incredible box-office coup

The movie beat Indiana Jones, an iconic Lucasfilm franchise with a $300 million budget, on July 4th. Sound of Freedom's budget: $14.5 million.

This movie probably isn't Citizen Kane, but it damn sure sheds a light on just how far Disney has fallen. And the numbers seem to show it's currently the most popular movie in theaters. And the only evidence that the movie is political is that some right-wing people love the movie.

 

Why do y'all insist on doing everything possible to keep our insanely massive sex trafficking problem covered up???

And enabled???

And facilitated???

What in the hell could possibly motivate such vile indifference?

Chicom puppet strings?

Are these the short n curlies the chicoms are manipulating the dems with via blackmail???

 

Is there satisfaction at the end in the form of catching and torturing/killing the bad guys? I want to see this film but I HATE any film/tv (like unsolved mysteries or the movie Traffic-about drugs) that doesn't make the bad guys pay (or even show who they are).
I need them to pay dearly for it to be worth watching.
The real world is a never ending getting-away-with-it scenario and I need my fantasy world to give the satisfaction rarely seen in the real world.
Who am I kidding, I'll see this film either way.

 

Ridonkulous analogy.

How about this for a hyppo:

Michael Moore makes a movie about neo-nazis.

Neo-prog opens thread about the pic, claiming it was a worthy film.

The conservative posters (all 5 remaining of us....), chime in with defensive reactions along the lines of:

"...I ain't gonna see that garbage...all the libs are talkin it up, so it must be horseshit!"

 

That's really amazing, bc they've been pimping indy like it's the superbowl, while SOF kinda snuck up out of no where.

 

I hope you don't have expectations of me being tolerant of Qanon nutjobs. If so you're wildly off

 

Many are saying the movie itself is not political. Even assuming that's true, some of the interviews and marketing of the film have been political (see below). As to your partisan accusations, I'd note that there were 20 House votes against the 2022 human trafficking bill. All 20 who voted against it were Republicans. Maybe they had valid reasons to vote against it, so I'm not going to accuse them of wanting to facilitate heinous crimes. The ease with which you accuse Democrats, generally, of promoting and wanting to cover up sex trafficking is very consistent with what's been online for years, and it does nothing to prevent abuse or help victims.

Transgender Ideology, Biden Border Abet Child Sex Slavery, Rescuer Says

The woke Left is championing the same “pedophile doctrines” that enable child sex slavery, warns Tim Ballard, a former Department of Homeland Security agent who has rescued hundreds of children from sex slavery.


He also warns that taxpayer dollars are in effect funding child sex slavery under President Joe Biden.

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“I’m not saying that they’re colluding or talking,” Ballard said, referring to the Left and the PNVD. “It doesn’t matter. It’s the same dark source. But, pedophiles are sitting back right now, going, ‘We’ve been pushing this agenda for decades. and now we don’t have to push anymore, because the Left are taking care of it for us in America.’ In America!”

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...ho-voted-against-anti-human-trafficking-bill/

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was among the 20 House Republicans who voted on Tuesday against a bill that seeks to combat human trafficking.

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The legislation would also reauthorize the Department of Homeland Security’s Angel Watch Center, which is meant to prevent international sex tourism travel perpetrated by child sex offenders, and improve trafficking prevention education for children by including parents and law enforcement in child trafficking and online grooming prevention.


Additionally, it would allocate $35 million each fiscal year for housing options that would help women living with their abusers separate themselves.