The Sound of Freedom is really a box office hit movie of Jim Caveizel. Due to its outstanding performance, this amazing movie is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, which further added fuel to controversies that mostly surrounded the theatrical release of this movie.
In the Sound of Freedom movie, a real-life story of Time Ballard, has been described. In this movie the Tim Ballard, acts as a former special agent who is working on rescuing children from sex traffickers. This recent movie has created criticism and acclaim.
Ensuring Accurate Depiction of Child Trafficking
In addition to other controversies, one of the main and important point that revolves around the Sound of Freedom film’s portrayal of child trafficking. Most of the experts of anti-trafficking, including Erin Albright, who has worked as the former fellow for the Department of Justice of Anti-trafficking task force, also argued that the portrait of the movie is sensationalized and therefore inaccurate.
The former fellow of the Department of Justice’s of anti-trafficking, Mr. Erin Albright, also said that the movie Sound of Freedom presents a dramatic perspective. As it often involving strangers peoples, whereas the real situation of human trafficking is more complicated as shown in this film.
Another big concern that lies about this film is that how the public perceives the crimes, because if we look at the portrayal of this movie, it shows that there are lot of misunderstanding about human trafficking dynamics. However, it is accepted that some events that are depicted in the Sound of Freedom movie can and do happen, but still there are criticism to emphasize more for a nuanced and deeper knowledge of the issue.
Association with Conspiracy Theories & Sound of Freedom
As due to more perceived support from far-wing groups, like QAnon, the Sound of Freedom faced more scrutiny. Although the movie got public praise from right-wing figures, also from former U.S President Donald Trump, but the film itself denies any king of explicit references to conspiracy theories or QAnon.
While talking about the “Sound of Freedom”, the Angel Studio’s CEO also emphasized about the movie apolitical nature, saying that “This film is not about conspiracy theories. It’s not about politics.”
Furthermore, the film director Alejandro Monteverde & star Jim Caviezel have tried to keep the movie away frorm conspiracy theories, expressing dismay at the controversy. However, the conspiracy theories further took fuel when Tim Ballard and Caviezel faced accusations of making QAnon references.
Allegations Toward Filmmakers/Creators of Sound of Freedom
As the Sound of Freedom movie released, some serious type of allegation started against the producers, creators & Tim Ballard. However, Tim Ballard, latter on denied any connections of QAnon but still he was accused several times of sexual assault and misconduct during missions with Operation Underground Railroad (OUR). As a result of these serious kind of allegation he was removed from the organization and excommunication from the Mormon church.
In addition, the funder of this film Fabian Marta and its producer Paul Hutchison also faced separate accusations of inappropriate behavior, including kidnapping of child. However, the latter charges were dropped against them and it was told that it was just misunderstanding.