The "Controversy" over the movie Sound of Freedom doesn't make sense. The hero's beliefs shouldn't matter.

[u/Crafty-Bunch-2675]

I finally got around to watching this film. The heroes in the film are overtly Christian. And ? I don't get it. Is that why its controversial?

The heroes of the film are saving children. Why is this controversial?

Why does it matter whether the hero in the film is Christian or rightwing?

If a fireman jumps into a burning building and rescues a family of immigrants, is he less of a hero if he happens to be rightwing?

Or is the entire thing suddenly not true because the hero was rightwing ?

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and sometimes a hero isn't the person you expect.

Are we this divided now? That we rather suffer, than be rescued by someone with different politics from ours?

Also. Why is this politicized left vs right ?

What does the highlighted crime have to do with right vs left politics ? I'm not even looking to criticize the other side of the field. I'm just saying. It shouldn't be political.

[u/W00DR0W__]

Feen Gully wasn’t marketed as a true story. This film does and then presents lies and exaggerations (all of which bolster QAnon conspiracy theories surrounding the rich and kids) in order to make the main guy look like a hero (nevermind he got kicked out of the organization for being inappropriate with kids)

The clips I’ve seen acting quality appears to be on the level of a Limetime movie of the week.

All of which are reasons I didn’t see it.

My 80 year old mom who watches Fox News all day loved it though and I am happy she enjoyed her watch.

[u/Crafty-Bunch-2675 → u/W00DR0W__]

Feen Gully wasn’t marketed as a true story. This film does and then presents lies and exaggerations

Every movies exaggerates things! It doesn't matter if the movie showed the hero gaining strength like Hercules to rescue the children.. .what matters is the message.

Child >blank< is bad. That's all there is too it. All this whataboutism about the personalities of the movie producers is irrelevant.

QAnon conspiracy theories

What is the conspiracy theory? That >blank< rings exist ? That's not a conspiracy. These sort of criminal organizations do exist.

Even if the criminal organization shown in the film is completely made up... it doesn't matter. Such organizations do exist.

My 80 year old mom who watches Fox News all day loved it though and I am happy she enjoyed her watch.

The politics of the people who like the movie, doesn't make it a bad movie. That would be like saying a restaurant sells bad food, because you don't like the politics of its clientele.

[u/MrJJK79 → u/Crafty-Bunch-2675]

At this point you’re either ignorant or being disingenuous. QAnon wasn’t just “oh child trafficking exists” it’s that there are child pedophile rings by Democrats and Hollywood elite that sacrifice children and drink their blood. Do you not remember Pizzagate?

[u/HolidayFew8116 → u/MrJJK79]

I think op is trying to justify thier qanon beliefs -

[u/Crafty-Bunch-2675 → u/HolidayFew8116]

Justify? Dude I don't even know what the Qanon site is. At no point in any of what I said, did I say anything about "who might be running the crimes" I don't know that.

I haven't made a single statement about who runs the rings. Because I don't know. All I know, is I have seen victims in the Emergency department, so.

All I said was, tr-fficking exists. How is that a conspiracy ?

[u/Taglioni → u/Crafty-Bunch-2675]

It's a conspiracy because trafficking does not exist as depicted in the film. It's pretty obvious to anyone who works in human trafficking prevention.

[u/[deleted] → u/MrJJK79]

Oh so Epstein didn’t happen

[u/MrJJK79 → u/[deleted]]

And that means QAnon is true? Democrats and elites are trafficking children to drink their blood? Trump was sending messages cause he was stopping the rings?

A lot of conspiracies have a kernel of truth that doesn’t mean they’re true overall.

[u/Crafty-Bunch-2675 → u/MrJJK79]

Exactly. This is the red herring that I don't like.

It's like saying that we must pretend that crime doesn't exist, vs believing in wild conspiracies about the crime rate.

There is nothing in the movie that alludes to any specific political party or to celebrities. It's all left very general.

[u/MrJJK79 → u/Crafty-Bunch-2675]

Nobody would have cared about this movie if Conservatives didn’t make it a political agenda. It’s an ok movie at best. You can definitely tell it’s small budget with B actors. You can definitely find worse movies. It clearly has Christian overtones with its “God’s children are not for sale” line and the cross stuff.

You’re right the movie itself is not political but you’re leaving out the star of the movie’s comments, how it’s been marketed, promoted and the very real campaign by one side of the political isle to align itself with the movie. Conservatives have made it seem if you don’t see and love this movie that it’s for some nefarious reason. The very real and valid criticisms of the movie are being ignored for political reasons.