The way they present it, you'd think that kidnappers are hiding behind every rubbish bin, strangers just waiting to snatch your children from your own front yard. They use a lot of fear-mongering in their fundraising. Trafficking is a real and serious issue, but I completely disagree with the way his organization is approaching it. It fits the pattern of mormons swallowing everything they see and hear as "truth" if it's even remotely connected with mormonism, especially if it makes them all teary-eyed for any reason.Įven the most basic 2-second fact check reveals that the story is fictional, with only the barest passing nod to an incident that doesn't resemble the movie at all. Worse still, they’ll want to spread the word." (OR A RELIGIOUS LEADER - my edit) To know thousands of adults will absorb Sound of Freedom, this vigilante fever dream, and come away thinking themselves better informed on a hidden civilizational crisis… well, it’s profoundly depressing. Now, as in the 1980s Satanic panic, they won’t even face the fact that most kids who suffer sexual abuse are harmed not by a shadowy cabal of strangers, but at the hands of a family member. And yet, over and over, the far right turns to these sordid fantasies about godless monsters hurting children. There are mass shootings, lack of healthcare, climate disasters. There are poor and unhoused, and people brutalized or killed by police. "There is visible suffering all around us in America. To the film’s intended viewers, these cannot be flaws - they’re the whole appeal." Or that it enforces stereotypes about trafficking that Angel Studios itself says are less than accurate. Or its wildly immature assumption that abused and traumatized children go right back to normal once the bad guys are in handcuffs. "it will surely do no good to point out Sound of Freedom‘s hackneyed white savior narrative. In short, I was at the movies with people who were there to see their worst fears confirmed." "Ballard, Caviezel, and others of their ilk had primed the public to accept Sound of Freedom as a documentary rather than delusion by fomenting moral panic for years over this grossly exaggerated “epidemic” of child sex-trafficking, much of it funneling people into conspiracist rabbit holes and QAnon communities. "The QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer" "‘Sound Of Freedom’ Is a Superhero Movie for Dads With Brainworms"
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