SOUND OF FREEDOM
Added 2023-07-14 07:05:27 +0000 UTCWho has seen it? I even have coworkers mentioning this to me. They aren't exactly cinefiles. Wondered what the buzz was with you guys. I trust ya'll. lol
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Just seen Caché (2005) lately - with Juliette Binoche.
Tom Rufer
2023-07-22 21:14:27 +0000 UTCSorry for the late response, but from everything I've seen, it just looks pretty passable; nothing too special. Not to mention the discourse surrounding this movie is so unbelievably exhausting. And I thought that the new Little Mermaid movie was gonna be the most controversial movie of this year lmao.
vince2k
2023-07-21 22:06:01 +0000 UTCI fully agree with that.
Deepfocuslens
2023-07-20 03:48:02 +0000 UTCLate response to this thread, but it was surprisingly very competent and even engaging. I don’t like how this film is being weaponized by audiences that view it, but the film itself is pretty non-objectionable in my eyes. I think that for hot-button controversial films like this, it’s better to see it for yourself and make your own judgement. I wouldn’t go recommending this film to everyone I know, but I got a decent bit out of my viewing experience. Your mileage may vary of course, lol
Christian Reiswig
2023-07-20 03:25:11 +0000 UTCWatched it the other day out of curiosity. If you walk in with no context, you will wonder what all the fuss is about. This is a straightforward, watchable, OK thriller about trying to rescue a brother and sister from sex traffickers. There is no QAnon material in the movie whatsoever, no whiff of a wider conspiracy by elites to allow this. Even the Christian message is confined to one scene in which two characters reveal that they are called to do this work by God. Having said all that … apparently Caviezel is full QAnon and has said some weird shit in interviews, and he has implied that people don’t want you to see this movie. Very effective marketing. But what’s on screen is completely inoffensive.
Jim Barnes
2023-07-17 16:00:39 +0000 UTCoh yes same. Juliette Binoche is a true treasure, and her taste in material is pretty extraordinary.
Deepfocuslens
2023-07-16 07:14:22 +0000 UTCMy local library has a foreign film section. I have noticed that the best french films usually star Juliette binoche. I would recommend these films to anyone fed up with mainstream movies
anthony scully
2023-07-14 20:26:57 +0000 UTCThe sex traffickers and hvac repairmen have teamed up to silence patriot Tim Ballard
kron
2023-07-14 17:57:22 +0000 UTCwhy do you say? I know so little about it.
Deepfocuslens
2023-07-14 17:53:54 +0000 UTCI mean I’ve seen those too, and I can understand that, but I’ve seen dozens that are like, “YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS MOVIE RIGHT NOW! EXPOSE THE TRUTH”
Jackson Littlewood
2023-07-14 17:47:27 +0000 UTCThat TikTok trend is so funny. I’m pretty sure if AMC didn’t want people to see the movie…they just wouldn’t play the movie. I saw one guy who said “my screening had weird captions the whole time”. Like yeah, the liberals putting up the closed captioned screenings to silence Tim Ballard
Jackson Littlewood
2023-07-14 17:46:01 +0000 UTCThere are no positive critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes that read like cult recruitment flyers. Most positive reviews from pro reviewers in fact contain social scaffolding ensuring the reader that the reviewer is not "one of those" people. If there are social forces at play, it might be in the reflexive disgust reactions at the "sort of person" who might like the movie too much.
Tom Tom
2023-07-14 16:41:02 +0000 UTCI’ve yet to see a positive review of the movie that doesn’t read like cult recruitment flyers. Might check it out on the seven seas at some point out of morbid curiosity, but i don’t wanna go to a theater and give Q-anon supporters money
Jackson Littlewood
2023-07-14 14:44:16 +0000 UTC^^^ I’ve heard similar claims re: Q-anon. I hadn’t even heard of this movie until a day or so ago, but I don’t get particularly good “vibes,” based on what I’m reading. I’m not much for letting politics spoil a film or book, but based on what I’m hearing I don’t think I would enjoy watching this. I read somewhere that the movie was almost canned but got saved by crowdfunding (somebody correct me if I’m wrong), and to me I find that vaguely inspiring for the film industry as a whole…but, like, why did it have to be *this* film, you know?
Trevor Lisa
2023-07-14 14:05:42 +0000 UTCAlso there’s a big campaign to pay it forward with tickets, so if you don’t feel like paying for a ticket I think you can get them free on Angel Studios website. They’ve raised like 4 million dollars… for themselves
kron
2023-07-14 11:34:36 +0000 UTCI don’t even know where to start- first off the movie is based off Tim Ballards experience running sting operations on child sex trafficking rings with the organization he founded called Operation Underground Railroad. There are various criticisms of the organization that you’ll have to look up on your own. But basically this movie is an embellished account of what he did. It stars Jim Caviezel (Jesus in The Passion) who plays Ballard. Both Caviezel and Ballard himself are pretty much Q-Anon freaks, but the movie itself isn’t that way at all. (due to it being written around 2015 and filmed in 2018) But conservatives and evangelicals are eating it up, and it certainly is being marketed in a dog whistley kind of way, and it’s ending up being material to bolster their beliefs. I saw it and thought it was pretty boring. It could imagine it being pretty emotionally effective on someone, but it didn’t really do it for me. I guess low budget movies need to play to their strengths and it did have some good acting in parts. It’s worth seeing just because of how culturally relevant it is and also I’d be super curious to hear your thoughts on it. There’s also this thing on Tiktok where conservatives are claiming AMC is trying to prevent them from seeing the movie by shutting off the AC, which is playing into the whole “it’s the movie THEY don’t want you to see” type of thing. So ridiculous
kron
2023-07-14 11:31:25 +0000 UTCI've heard lots of things about it. I'm tempted to give it a shot, but I doubt I'll like it all too much.
vince2k
2023-07-14 07:13:36 +0000 UTC
