Posted on 07/21/2023 3:10:12 PM PDT by xxqqzz
“Sound of Freedom,” the movie of the moment, has a message first, and a story second. Its message is to get us to care more about the horrors of child sex trafficking. It does that by showing queasy sequences of kids in danger, being carted around by slimy adults, and making us remember everyone’s faces. Then it gives us a weary hero, Tim Ballard, an American man whose superpower is that he cares. This father and husband cares so much that he leaves his job at Homeland Security ten months before earning a pension. Instead of only catching pedophiles, as he has done nearly 300 times before, he goes to Colombia and undercover to help rescue children. This man is played by a gentle and gravely serious Jim Caviezel, who shoulders this message’s suffering just like when he played Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.”
The story is true, but it barely comes to life with such a telling. Which is a shame, not just because it’s uncomfortable to be numbed by these themes, but also because director Alejandro Monteverde well-clears the low bar for filmmaking one expects from movies that are message-first (and often come with similar faith-driven backers). Take away the noise surrounding it, and “Sound of Freedom” has distinct cinematic ambitions: a non-graphic horror film with what could be called an art-house sensibility for muted rage and precise, striking shadows derived from an already bleak world. If “Sound of Freedom” were less concerned with being something "important," it could be more than a mood, it could be a movie.
(Excerpt) Read more at rogerebert.com ...
Me too.
5.56mm
“Is Ebert pedo??”
Do you suppose people that talk into microphones, appear on broadcast cameras, write articles or books, etc., are statistically more likely to have urges that we dumb average citizens think are immoral?
And do you suppose they try to hide them and at the same time try with their public speaking and writing to convince us that their urges are in fact perfectly ok?
Roger Joseph Ebert (/ˈiːbərt/; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013)
You can’t be that stupid to write something so disgusting.
Roger Joseph Ebert (/ˈiːbərt/; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013)
I don’t know. Is he? You seem to know about the dead
Of course I can. What’s your excuse? And yes, I knew he was dead.
I highly doubt it until I provided facts.
You sure are full of yourself. What’s it like to be so smart?
I just don’t spout nonsense and lies about dead people.
HAHAHA! That’s an amazing story. Sounds like Mr. & Mrs. Ballard are pretty patient people!
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