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‘Sound of Freedom’ Filmmakers: “No Single Interest Group Owns the Issue of Trafficking”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/sound-of-freedom-guest-column-1235565034/

Director Alejandro Monteverde and co-writer Rod Barr say they wanted their film — which has been associated with QAnon and become highly polarized even as it’s grossed $172.8 million —  to bring an apolitical awareness to an important matter, which "is not a conservative or a liberal issue."

‘Sound of Freedom’ Filmmakers: “No Single Interest Group Owns the Issue of Trafficking”

Director Alejandro Monteverde and co-writer Rod Barr say they wanted their film — which has been associated with QAnon and become highly polarized even as it’s grossed $172.8 million — to bring an apolitical awareness to an important matter, which "is not a conservative or a liberal issue."

11 comments

HelixDab2

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Christ al-fucking-mighty.

Open a new tab. Go to Google. Search, "operation underground railroad investigative reports site:vice.com". Start reading.

You'll quickly understand why this is all a grift.

DieterParker

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Open a new tab. Go to Google. Search, "operation underground railroad investigative reports site:vice.com"

ysk: lemmy supports hyperlinks

https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/

QHC

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Odd choice to hire Jim "Adrenochrome" Caviezel, in that Case. Why not any other actor that is not already associated with this issue?

realcaseyrollins

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That's a fair point, and actually looking at the film's budget, I'm guessing it's because he was a good actor who was so passionate about the issue that he was okay with making the movie for free.

DLSchichtl

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LinkOpensChest_wav

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Why did it become associated with Qanon in the first place?

xyzzy

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QAnon adherents are obsessed with child trafficking and pedophiles and seem to see both everywhere they look, such as the nonexistent basements of pizza restaurants. (They are also deeply stupid.)

phillaholic

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All a while finding them in their own ranks 🤷‍♂️

Smokey_the_beer

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I have not seen it but my guess would be the pizza gate mess.

realcaseyrollins

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Nope that's not it.

So, most Qanon supporters believe in a conspiracy theory that the world's elites are running a child trafficking ring that kidnaps kids and tortures them in order to extract adrenochrome from them which is (and this part is real btw) a powerful drug with few to no side effects, but can basically only be extracted from living beings who are under extreme duress. I'm getting the impression that Tim Ballard and OUR are trying to both get the general public more incensed and outraged over child trafficking, and convince the Qanon supporters to at least support real child trafficking organizations, instead of just mouthing out about it on the internet.

The film itself isn't really tied to Qanon or anything. Jim Caviezel supports it, but that doesn't make the film any more connected to Qanon than the Mission Impossible films are to Scientology. In fact the plot of the movie doesn't align with the adrenochrome theory at all, focusing on children being trafficked into sex slavery. But there are many in the media who are secretly (or publicly) pro-pedophilia, and they've been trying to connect Qanon to the movie to make it look bad.

DLSchichtl

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jscummy

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Adrenochrome is readily available for labs. People have tried taking it as a drug and the effects range from "nothing" to "sweating profusely with a severe headache"

HWK_290

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We made Sound of Freedom in a sincere effort to unite people around a fundamental human rights issue.

Good, that's the way it should be