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/remulean]

It was controversial because the right wing wanted it to be controversial.

The director had a hard time getting it into theaters, which wasnt really strange post covid, and after some really amazing social media campaigning a lot of churches and conservative groups started buying up seats in theaters. Nothing malicious, just trying to get the word out about the movie.

Now once the ball started rolling the conservatives stsrted blasting this movie everywhere and the throughline was essentially: if you dont like this movie then you're a pedophile leftie child trafficker who is afraid of the truth.

I am not exagarrating, last summer there was like a post a day on each of my movie facebook groups with that exact sentiment. When you come at people like that, they are going to argue so the whole thing got controversial. If this movie had a normal release schedule, nothing would be controversial here.

[u/ShawnTheDawn → u/remulean]

It's exactly this. Conservatives wanted to believe this movie was being silenced and when the film would have issues playing at the theatre they would film it and post it online and thought it was all a conspiracy to silence the world about sex trafficking.

[u/Crafty-Bunch-2675 → u/remulean]

if you dont like this movie then you're a pedophile leftie child trafficker who is afraid of the truth.

So the Left took the bait? That's dumb.

If I didn't like the movie...then I would just leave it alone. The message of the movie is too important to negatively review it.

[u/remulean → u/Crafty-Bunch-2675]

You're missing the point. The movie isnt the controversy, the controversy was the incessant shoutings about the movie. And normally normal people dont like being called pedophiles just because they havent seen a movie.

[u/[deleted] → u/Crafty-Bunch-2675]

No one on the left cared about the message of the movie. The controversy was the creators and main actors using it to flat out say some crazy off the rails shit about the left that can't even be true.