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Surprise Movie Hit 'Sound of Freedom' Leaves the Left Freaking out About Its Links to QAnon: The Guardian calls it a "QAnon-adjacent thriller" & a "paranoid new movie."
Red State ^ | 07/07/2023 | Bonchie

Posted on 07/07/2023 8:23:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Is human trafficking one giant right-wing conspiracy? That’s been the insinuation of the left-wing press as they froth at the mouth to attack Sound of Freedom, the surprise box-office hit starring Jim Caveziel.

The film, which is based on a true story, centers on a federal agent who rescues a boy from captivity in South America. When he finds out that the boy’s sister was left behind, he quits his day job and embarks on a thrilling extraction mission to get her out. As action movies go, it follows a formula that was once common in Hollywood (you know, before all the woke stuff), leading to movies like Taken and Tears of the Sun.

It all seems straightforward enough, right? What’s controversial about a movie portraying the saving of a girl from human traffickers? According to the press, you’re just too stupid to figure it out because what the movie is really about is QAnon.

Sound of Freedom: the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America


https://t.co/tbDjYCxU3C

— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) July 6, 2023

However one chooses to slice it, Sound of Freedom has over-delivered on expectations in dollars and cents, a feat of profitability uncommon for a comparatively low-budget production without a major Hollywood-led promotional campaign. Judging by the robust round of applause that concluded the fully-seated screening I attended on Wednesday evening – and this, in the liberal Sodom of Manhattan! – it would seem that the folks at the two-year-old Angel Studios have tapped into a substantial and eagerly marshaled viewership.

Following that money leads back to a more unsavory network of astroturfed boosterism among the far-right fringe, a constellation of paranoids now attempting to spin a cause célèbre out of a movie with vaguely simpatico leanings. The uninitiated may not pick up on the red-yarn-and-corkboard subtext pinned onto a mostly straightforward extraction mission in South America, pretty much Taken with a faint whiff of something noxious in the air. Those tuned in to the eardrum-perforating frequency of QAnon, however, have heeded a clarion call that leads right to the multiplex.

Ironically, while The Guardian describes the movie as “paranoid,” the paranoia of their reviewer is palpable as you read his screed. Take this paragraph as an example.

And yet a coating of plausible deniability covers a film that takes care to be the most anodyne version of itself, all while giving those in the know just enough to latch onto. The traffickers are anonymous foreigners, mentioned as “rebels” in an unspecified regional conflict with no connection to the alleged Clinton Crime Family, though a title card at the end points back to America as a hub for the “$150bn business” of exploitation. The religious dimension seldom extends beyond a god-fearing undertone, most perceptible in archetypes like the reformed sinner on the righteous path. (Character actor supreme Bill Camp classes up the joint as “Vampiro”, a former narco who gave up his profligate lifestyle after fornicating with a 14-year-old while in a cocaine haze.) The trafficking follows no motivation more elaborate than the servicing of rich predators, eliding all talk of body-part black markets and the precious organic biochemical of adrenochrome harvested as a Satanic key to eternal life. The first rule of QAnon: you don’t talk about QAnon where the normals can hear you.

So to clarify, there’s no mention of Hillary Clinton in the movie nor is there any mention of any motivation related to QAnon, pizzagate, or the like. Yet, according to the left-wing press, the movie is actually secretly promoting QAnon in a way that “normals” just can’t perceive.

I’ve got one question for this reviewer: Is QAnon in the room with you right now?

This entire thing strikes me as idiotic. I don’t know all the intricacies of what Jim Caveziel believes in his personal life (nor do I care in relation to what made it on the screen), but I do know that Sound of Freedom is clearly not promoting QAnon in any way whatsoever.

Human trafficking is a real issue in the world. It is not a right-wing conspiracy, and these attacks on the film just come across as deranged and weird. Normal people are left asking why major press outlets are trying to downplay human trafficking for political points, and they aren’t wrong for wondering.

One of the producers of the film responded on Fox News.

The hit new film "Sound of Freedom" exposes the atrocities of child sex trafficking & tells the true story of a man who devoted his life to stopping it.

How does the media react?

The Guardian despicably calls it a "QAnon-adjacent thriller" & a "paranoid new movie."

One of the producers, @EVerastegui , reacted on @foxandfriends

@FoxNews with me this morning. pic.twitter.com/kdEsvN0pLK

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) July 7, 2023

This is the problem with negative partisanship. It melts brains. The lesson of Sound of Freedom isn’t that there’s some secret QAnon plot that has made it a success. It’s that people tend to like more traditional, morally straightforward narratives in movies. That’s not a commentary on religion in films, but rather that a stark presentation of right and wrong tends to make people feel good and want to watch. That’s why Extraction 2, the recent Netflix release, was so well-received.

Besides, if we are going to start panning movies because of who the actors are and what their beliefs are in the real world, there will be basically nothing left to watch. Hollywood is full of really odd people.



TOPICS: Conspiracy; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: childtrafficking; crime; film; pedogate; pedophiles; pizzagate; qanon; soundoffreedom
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To: SeekAndFind

Pedocrats panicking.
Adrenochrome is the real-world Spice.
The Spice must flow, or thousands of meat demons will writhe in agony and the Syndicate will fall.

I’ve gotten past my impatience.
This slow and tortuous battle plan is very rewarding.


21 posted on 07/07/2023 11:52:00 PM PDT by JustaTech (My mind is the weapon. Everything else is tools.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I saw Sound of Freedom this week. Its an extremely well made story based on real events, it captured my full attention and I watched through the special message at the end. It needs as many people to see it as possible.


22 posted on 07/08/2023 1:20:49 AM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: SeekAndFind
"I’ve got one question for this reviewer: Is QAnon in the room with you right now?"

That's a great line!

23 posted on 07/08/2023 2:39:21 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: SeekAndFind

Saw it last night. This reviewer is an absolute nut, or we weren’t watching the same movie.


24 posted on 07/08/2023 2:44:12 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: GreatRoad

Going today


25 posted on 07/08/2023 3:21:40 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: FamiliarFace

I saw the movie on Monday.
The theater was packed.
It beat Indiana Jones on July 4th.
This is the first time my wife and I have been to a theater in literally years.
I would definitely recommend it.

Go and see the movie and judge for yourself.
The reason the demons are telling NOT to see it is because it exposes the most EVIL thing in the world today.

God’s children are not for sale


26 posted on 07/08/2023 3:23:43 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: bray

“The DNC is bought off by child sex traffickers.”

The DNC IS child sex traffickers.


27 posted on 07/08/2023 3:42:33 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: healy61

The Guardian describes the movie as “paranoid,”
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The Guardian’s worldview is representative of one of the highest crime-rate countries in the West, where leftist ideology has enabled criminals to run amok, committing countless crimes against the law-abiding public. Don’t believe me? Well read the retired British prison doctor, Theodore Dalrymple’s books, Life at the Bottom, or Our Culture, What’s Left of It, or Not With a Bang, But a Whimper. You will then have second thoughts about ever setting foot in Merry Old England ever again.


28 posted on 07/08/2023 4:28:26 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wikipedia has jumped on the bandwagon...

In 2021, Caviezel endorsed some elements of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory,[53][54] during a remote appearance at the “Health and Freedom Conference”[55][56] at Rhema Bible Training College in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.[57] The appearance was to promote the film Sound of Freedom, centering on anti-human trafficking activist Timothy Ballard. Ballard’s activism has been alleged to correspond to the rise of QAnon-related conspiracy theories, though he denies any connection to the movement.[58] Caviezel mentioned that Ballard was supposed to be appearing at the conference but was “saving victims of trafficking” who were victims of “adrenochroming”, a practice whose existence is suggested by QAnon adherents.[59]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Caviezel


29 posted on 07/08/2023 4:31:10 AM PDT by gattaca (Either you will control your government, or government will control you. Ronald Reagan)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Where is Epstein’s book?


30 posted on 07/08/2023 6:02:29 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When is the left not going insane about something. Everybody needs to see this movie.


31 posted on 07/08/2023 6:16:42 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Child trafficking and the Cabal go together like a horse and carriage.


32 posted on 07/08/2023 6:19:57 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: SeekAndFind
From the title: The Guardian calls it a "QAnon-adjacent thriller" and a "paranoid new movie."

The owners of 'The Guardian' couldn't help but out themselves as groomers.

33 posted on 07/08/2023 6:47:28 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: gibsonguy

Check most in the UK are they love socialism.

Have a few friends that moved away from there for that reason.

Now it’s happening here the fight is on to stop it.


34 posted on 07/08/2023 7:50:34 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: MayflowerMadam

This. I believe it is prevalent on both sides of the isle. Big tech/business also. Epstein had a purpose and it was to ensnare others into evil. Pedesta brothers also.


35 posted on 07/08/2023 9:13:14 AM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored !)
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To: wgmalabama

There are rumors that the mystery about little Madeline McCann’s disappearance is solved, but never any details. The Podestas were at the same location as the McCanns were then, and I’d be shocked if they weren’t involved. They look like the artist’s renderings of the suspects.


36 posted on 07/08/2023 12:46:08 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: ApplegateRanch

Good find.


37 posted on 07/08/2023 3:32:27 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: MayflowerMadam

Yes, they do resemble the renderings.


38 posted on 07/08/2023 3:49:36 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: vpintheak

Exactly.

Wouldn’t it be a hoot if a criminal background check were to be run on this “reviewer” and it were found that he is a sex offender?

The ones that are squealing are the ones that are guilty of these abominations; the cockroaches run when the light is flipped on.


39 posted on 07/08/2023 9:39:57 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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To: gattaca

Caviezel mentioned that Ballard was supposed to be appearing at the conference but was “saving victims of trafficking” who were victims of “adrenochroming”, a practice whose existence is suggested by QAnon adherents.[59]


Aha!! There’s the line….these sicko leftists can’t handle the truth getting out.

Anything they can’t debate, or, must hide….always goes to “conspiracy theories” and “Qanon”.


40 posted on 07/08/2023 9:50:02 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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