08-04-2023, 07:51 PM
(08-04-2023, 07:15 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Honest question here. Does not the organization portrayed in this movie keep records of all the children they've rescued? Is being anti-child trafficking now a polarizing political point? Does the movie make a point to target the left as being in the child trafficking business? If the movie is bringing awareness to an horrible issue like this is the fact that a single funder is accused of such a crime an indictment of the movie's message? As someone who deals with child trafficking on a regular basis in the course of my job I absolutely welcome more attention being brought to the problem, because it is extensive and it is absolutely underreported.
No one, with morals and a conscious, is pro-child trafficking. The concern about this particular movie includes the fact that the rescue organization portrayed hasn't shared its records making it difficult for anyone to confirm their stories of rescues and such.
Reality is bad enough...but this movie which is called a documentary is more of a based on a true story type of thing rather than an actual factual telling of the problem of human trafficking
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188405402/qanon-supporters-are-promoting-sound-of-freedom-heres-why
Quote:On screen, Sound of Freedom goes even further in fictionalizing Ballard's story, showing him single-handedly taking on a crime syndicate in Colombia.
These popular depictions raise concerns among anti-trafficking experts, who say they offer an incomplete portrait of a real and urgent problem
Quote:Many of the missions Operation Underground Railroad describes are hard to verify or contain significant misrepresentations, according to extensive reporting by Tim Marchman and Anna Merlan of Vice News.
"They're not whole cloth falsehoods, but they reassemble things that are true or close to being true into stories that are just wildly and completely different from what actually happened," Marchman said.
Quote:In a long blog post about the film, Angel Studios acknowledged some elements are fictionalized and said the film takes "creative liberties in depicting the different methods of child trafficking."
The promoters of the movie itself are deep into the Qanon community and in appearances promoting the film have espoused many of their theories inclduind the idea that these exploited children are being killed so that adrenochrome can be harvested. That actually furthers the exploitation of children as they are being used to further crazy ideas. Human trafficking deserves a truly serious look at it, not conspiracy exploitation. To discover that one of the finaciers of ths movie is involved in a kidnapping of a child just is ironical considering what they are attempting to expose.
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