Sound of Freedom

Very powerful, though heartbreaking and heavy movie with an important message. Those children(’s acting) really touched my heart and soul. The message at the end though was not necessary imo. Also it’s an incomplete message. I can understand they want to raise awareness of how big of a problem child trafficking is, children being used in the sex industry and the need for law enforcement from different countries working together better, but what can I /we do as “simple citizens”?? Also, the leading actor and perhaps the agent his character is based on, seem to be problematic. The actor has been a prominent promoter of the false, violent QAnon conspiracy theory. The formal federal agent the character is based on as well as the film distributor reject any of the conspiracy theories. Though apparently the agent has recently said that (the abduction and killing of children for) the harvesting of a substance called adrenochrome, is real. The movie itself however has nothing to do with QAnon, it does not have any references to any conspiracy theories and was even filmed before QAnon started (source: NPR). Another criticism is the amount of fictionalization of the true events. As if Ballard would be able to take up a whole crime syndicate on his own. The studio acknowledges taking "creative liberties."(source: NPR). Well, no surprise there. This isn’t the only studio doing this and they never made the claim that this was a documentary instead of a (dramatized) movie based on true events. So imo still a good movie and most definitely worth the watch.