Sound of Freedom and the Shape of Modern Propaganda

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In the words of Dom Helder Camara: "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”

My dad and step mom accused me of being a pedophile because I saw Barbie instead of this movie lmao

The biggest clickbait of this movie is they loudly promoted and said that it would expose all the elites and dark secrets of celebrities. Im still waiting

The problem is that it will always feel and look better to save 5000 abused and tortured children at gunpoint, rather than implement social policies that would save hundreds of thousands of children from ever getting abused and tortured in the first place.

The fucking pause about the release date was actually fucking horrifying

Listening to Jordan Peterson describe basic storytelling building blocks like they're some Profound Insight that he discovered is peak comedy. "I've found that when you have a main character facing a problem it makes it easier for audiences to understand that problem" no fucking way Kermit the Fraud

I’m from Colombia: Sound of Freedom is a bad depiction of the issue. There has been American agents helping to solve some issues in our country, but in contrast, a huge scandal in the 2000’s was American soldiers doing despicable things to Colombian women and child. Colombia is a land of contrast, it’s up to us to depict ourselves: but stories coming directly from us are rarely listen. A Colombian artist could be listened or seeing and being respected, but then, the imaginary rounds again over narcoculture and war. Then, they used exactly the same marketing tools to Colombian evangelical folks, and we are depicted again as an spoiled tutifruti. It’s sad, TQG was also a media product of 2023 Edited to solve typos

Maaaaan for a second there I almost felt empathy for Tim considering all he’s seen - until I remembered he has live-streamed rescue missions and offered viewings for like $30,000. He didn’t seem to grasp that this was also…child exploitation.

I investigated child abuse, most often sexual abuse, for over a decade. I worked a fair number of trafficking cases. One of the most tiring parts of the job was listening to people perform their morality and outrage when they found out what I did for a living. I found this entire analysis vindicating and cathartic. Thank you, sincerely, for taking such time and care to explore the hollowness of Sound's soul and why our culture is such fertile ground for this delusion.

As much as I hate the term virtue signalling, filming a random child in public to show people on TikTok that you care about human trafficking is surely the textbook definition

God can’t stop child trafficking, but he can give you inside tips on when to release your movie. Got it!

Imagine filming a child alone in a PUBLIC BATHROOM & then putting that child's face on the Internet (without their parents' knowledge or consent) all while acknowledging the child is vulnerable & claiming to be woke to child trafficking. The irony is astounding!!

I remember being in a trans self-help discord channel and one of the transmasc folks there was trafficked to Northern Europe. He was somewhat aware of his situation, but he had been groomed into learned helplessness and it was incredibly hard to explain to him what he has to do next. The whole group chat was gathering information on how to help him and where he'd have to go to be safe. I remember viscerally the moment when I talked to a friend about this, and I had my roommate chime in like "what are you guys talking about, an action movie?" and when I told him this was real, he would barely believe it. Of course, the question was "why is the family not concerned about this person?". Well, he's trans and got kicked out, and his only financial support is the abusive man that kidnapped him. The fact that we, as a society, have fictionalized abduction to a point that it seems almost a fantastical story about Saving The Kids rather than a real thing that happens to predominantly marginalized people, that happens to people that society has decided are not worth looking after, is truly harrowing. And knowing that a trafficked trans guy would probably not "count" to conservatives as a "good victim", makes me feel a whole other way around this topic

Reminds me of a recent stand up special where he says "did anyone else trick themselves into thinking they were getting smarter by following politics when in reality politics were just getting dumber?"

"imagine making a movie about child trafficking and thinking it's possible to stay out of politics" THANK YOU. I have family members who are like this, I love them and I love spending time with them but it gets so awkward so quickly b/c of how hard they actively try to not discuss or acknowledge "politics." It's such a weird way to think, that if you just ignore something it doesn't affect you.

It was fun trolling people in social media comment sections by saying, “I liked The Sound of Freedom better when it was called Taken and starred Liam Neeson.” 😅 Good times.

Imagine how many kids would be saved from trafficking if everyone watched this movie in IMAX

People were NOT kidding about that pause

This was one of the most obnoxious eras in recent culture. If you dared to question the sincerity of this movie, you were called a pedophile/human trafficker. And the most ridiculous notion was people going "this film is telling us THE TRUTH and you're too blind to see it!!' as if we didn't know human trafficking was a thing???? That was the worst part of it all. Everyone pretended they had no idea this went on until they saw this "life changing" movie.