Sound of Freedom and the Shape of Modern Propaganda
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no offense but this video is just stupid. it's a movie about some dude doing something about human trafficking. how it you all triggered into that rant you make in the end of the video is hilarious.
You're a fantastic writer and critic.
@hughmac13 I like that she pinned an ad while her audience whines about the evils of free market economics.
@@muggsyaxton8085 you’re right, in the future I’ll reconsider buying food and paying my rent
@themorbidzoo well, you seem fine with using the free market to improve your bottom line. Which is great. The free market system has lifted millions out of poverty. But, like an ungrateful andl spoiled child, many of your viewers attack it. I find vapid and intellectually lazy people to be quite interesting.
In the words of Dom Helder Camara: "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
Straight facts
Because Marx was right about the only thing he needed to be right about, the nature and trajectory of capitalism. This has been well-known for decades, but we can't be allowed to talk about it.
Well. You can starve as the commies did like they have and continue to do under the few suriving juntas. Marx is an outdated idiot and his internet shill brigades are naive and harmful.
@@bob7975 Yet people are talking about it.
@@ChucksSEADnDEADnot enough tbh
My dad and step mom accused me of being a pedophile because I saw Barbie instead of this movie lmao
Your dad and step mom are in the comment section 😏
You should watch Schindler's List right this instance or youre literally Hitler
You should watch and enjoy Black Panther right now or you are racist.
That’s already an insane thing to accuse someone of because they watched Barbie, but even more so from your own family. Shame on your dad and step mom
@@someguy7819 Me, reading this comment and not watching Schindler's List this very moment:
Ah sheeet, here we go again
The problem is that it will always feel and look better to save 5000 abused and tortured children at gunpoint, rather than implement social policies that would save hundreds of thousands of children from ever getting abused and tortured in the first place.
ding ding ding
To think in such a way requires an amount of problematizing that it seems most folks either never speak out loud or know how to consider, not unless it concerns them personally.
And the first step to that is TALKING about the program. Which things like this do very well
What does that even mean. This seems to just be a way to trigger you and demonize people you have decided you don't like. What policies would you implement? I think that's the point. You must be aware of the problem before you can fix it.
@@Roosters-rants1977I was gonna post this comment reply already anyway to make it easier for people to understand, as this is how I understood it. What it means is this: Doesn't it feel better to be Mr. incredible, and save the cat out of the tree? Everyone claps for you, the neighborhood cheers, everyone calls you a hero. Wow! That one cat is now out of the tree! Doesn't that feel nicer to do that than to implement a fence around the tree, so other neighborhood cats can't get up there, or maybe even removing certain dangerous branches that they can easily climb up to? No right, because fixing the 'tree problem' isn't as satisfying or gratifying than fixing the 'cat problem'.
The biggest clickbait of this movie is they loudly promoted and said that it would expose all the elites and dark secrets of celebrities. Im still waiting
when did they say they would? lmao the elites are exposing themselves
It doesXD. Cia is involved with child trafficking
@@macias7125 Conservative influencers and AI bots making clickbait videos on UA-cam and TikTok? Those are the ones claiming that the movie was exposing something. Or, you mean to tell me you haven’t seen those videos?
Idk what you’re talking about, the movie was advertised by the actor Jim Caviezel as an awareness flick. I’m from Bolivia where many children from families we know of were also kidnapped, something this movie subliminally shows the first minutes into the flick. It’s a large issue that once Trump mentioned the term Coyotes people mocked the idea and said how stupid it is to blame the animals for transporting children….
If anything it actually made South American human trafficking more noticeable for Americans who otherwise only think of Mexico…
I mean, it did expose the dark secrets of SOMEBODY(albeit that somebody was one of the investors for the movie)
The fucking pause about the release date was actually fucking horrifying
he deserves an oscar for that
I thought my computer was malfunctioning when he waited so long to finish his sentence, I was freaked out.
Legitimately unnerving.
That's what mormons are raised to do! Start crying when god gives you a "personal revelation". And it's really creepy.
right?
I remember being in a trans self-help discord channel and one of the transmasc folks there was trafficked to Northern Europe. He was somewhat aware of his situation, but he had been groomed into learned helplessness and it was incredibly hard to explain to him what he has to do next. The whole group chat was gathering information on how to help him and where he'd have to go to be safe. I remember viscerally the moment when I talked to a friend about this, and I had my roommate chime in like "what are you guys talking about, an action movie?" and when I told him this was real, he would barely believe it. Of course, the question was "why is the family not concerned about this person?". Well, he's trans and got kicked out, and his only financial support is the abusive man that kidnapped him.
The fact that we, as a society, have fictionalized abduction to a point that it seems almost a fantastical story about Saving The Kids rather than a real thing that happens to predominantly marginalized people, that happens to people that society has decided are not worth looking after, is truly harrowing. And knowing that a trafficked trans guy would probably not "count" to conservatives as a "good victim", makes me feel a whole other way around this topic
Aye I really appreciate you sharing this!
edit: also I appreciate you :)
I really hope they're okay now and getting the help they need and deserve!
Must be real nice to live in a world where abduction is so unthinkable a thing that it feels like fiction.
Like, I get it. Read history about stuff like Aztec blood sacrifice, Haitian slavery, the Plague of Justinian, Nazi death camps, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, or Enver Pasha, and there's a very strong impulse to shrug it off like 'nah come on that CAN'T be real, that's just TOO ridiculously horrible.' If you wrote Dark Lord Sauron doing this shit, the audience would be like 'no that's silly'.
But if it's something that's still happening, you gotta dig in and accept it.
Fact is stranger and more disturbing than fiction
you know what's more sickening? i've heard some MOTHERS say they don't think it's even real.
I’m from Colombia: Sound of Freedom is a bad depiction of the issue. There has been American agents helping to solve some issues in our country, but in contrast, a huge scandal in the 2000’s was American soldiers doing despicable things to Colombian women and child. Colombia is a land of contrast, it’s up to us to depict ourselves: but stories coming directly from us are rarely listen. A Colombian artist could be listened or seeing and being respected, but then, the imaginary rounds again over narcoculture and war.
Then, they used exactly the same marketing tools to Colombian evangelical folks, and we are depicted again as an spoiled tutifruti. It’s sad, TQG was also a media product of 2023
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PS:. I send a shout-out!!! This is one of the best digital media analysis I’ve ever watched in UA-cam!
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Thank you! 😊 and thanks for your perspective
I'm not Colombian, but my fiancée is.
She has noticed, and shared with me, how groups like the Daily Wire are using a news organization called "Americano News" to try and gaslight their readers into believing that most, if not _all_ of Latin America are Conservatives pushing against Progressive thinking, 'Woke' ideals and such (Woke in quotes, as that's not what being Woke means but I digress) as well as stating that all Latinos actively support the former President of the US... because of the Wall thing, despite the clear contradiction that a Closed Border policy would only end up negatively impacting the migrating community.
"They cannot represent themselves, they must be represented"
17 thousand British and French Women SA's by US soldiers during WW2, and god knows how many more in Britain and especially Japan since the US occupies our countries.
Imagine filming a child alone in a PUBLIC BATHROOM & then putting that child's face on the Internet (without their parents' knowledge or consent) all while acknowledging the child is vulnerable & claiming to be woke to child trafficking. The irony is astounding!!
I know, right? What she should’ve done is ask the parent or guardian of the child to be more watchful. But, no, she had to post a video on TikTok and expose the child for all the world to see without the child’s and parent’s/guardian’s consent just so she can go viral. 🙄
@@BirdsandGhibliFanthe kid wasnt alone they were standing right outside the stall while their carer peed. That's normal. I personally as a babysitter don't take the kids in the stall with me because it's inappropriate. They know how to wait outside the stall and that they are not to leave and can call for me if needed.
I investigated child abuse, most often sexual abuse, for over a decade. I worked a fair number of trafficking cases. One of the most tiring parts of the job was listening to people perform their morality and outrage when they found out what I did for a living.
I found this entire analysis vindicating and cathartic. Thank you, sincerely, for taking such time and care to explore the hollowness of Sound's soul and why our culture is such fertile ground for this delusion.
Thanks for doing the (actual) work
Dude. Yes! I have a coworker that is obsessed with this film. He never stops taking about it. It’s frustrating that I can’t outright tell him the movie and how it portrays trafficking is a lie.
@@viridianacortes9642Maybe he is insane or religiously deranged.
I was probably about a year into the work before the reality that I was in no way the protagonist of the story went from conceptual to true understanding.
The video commentary about lack of curiosity is such a a great insight into the fundamental element of the good-guy-with-a-gun solution.
@@viridianacortes9642 Why can't you?
As much as I hate the term virtue signalling, filming a random child in public to show people on TikTok that you care about human trafficking is surely the textbook definition
If there's one thing progressives are known for more than conservatives is that its virtue signaling.
What happened?
I hear you about "virtue signalling." Like "fake news" and "deep state," it's a formerly legitimate and useful term that's been poisoned by overuse and misuse by the right.
@@yohei72 how has the right misused it? Most major news nowadays is fake to some extent and the 'deep state' (dunno what that even means exactly) is still alive and running.
i feel like it's almost crossing over from virtue signaling to exploiting a stranger who didn't consent to being online, who is also a child, for clout
Maaaaan for a second there I almost felt empathy for Tim considering all he’s seen - until I remembered he has live-streamed rescue missions and offered viewings for like $30,000. He didn’t seem to grasp that this was also…child exploitation.
are you ffr rn? exclusive trafficking rescue streams like its a trashy episode of cops?
Buddy, claiming moral superiority over a man whos dedicated his life to stopping child sex trafficking is another level of progressive brain rot. Yeah, its wierd and I wouldnt do it, but he is making money for the organization to go out and help more children.
@@user-nz8uy1zm3z whatever you say buddy
i'm pretty sure Fundie Fridays mentioned it in their review of Angel Studios@@Saibellus
@@user-nz8uy1zm3z So engaging in child exploitation is okay if you can claim that it's for the sake of stopping child exploitation? That's really the stance that you want take, buddy?
God can’t stop child trafficking, but he can give you inside tips on when to release your movie. Got it!
This is the Trump Prophecy all over again 😔
Well of course the eternal and omniscient providence of God dictated that he must release your movie on July 4th, the most famous national holiday. Surely that is not just his own internal bias. 😂
@@KRobinson-ko1neWTF are you talking about
The Movie: Trump Prophecy
It’s this guy who has a hallucination or something and he took it as a prophecy that trump would take office…or needs to…or something like that
It was really fucked up
Any way it’s not too far from that other “prophecy” that the movie needs to come out on the 4th
Imagine how many kids would be saved from trafficking if everyone watched this movie in IMAX
42?
@@BL00DYM1SHAat least 43
Its 47
The kids would want us to have sour candy.
why are you imagining children being trafficked
Listening to Jordan Peterson describe basic storytelling building blocks like they're some Profound Insight that he discovered is peak comedy. "I've found that when you have a main character facing a problem it makes it easier for audiences to understand that problem" no fucking way Kermit the Fraud
plus he's a drug addict🤣
Kermit the Fraud 😂 did you make that up or did you read it somewhere else?
@@stotab8700 I can proudly say I came up with that one, although I wouldn't be surprised if somebody else thought of it as well
@@user-ll3kc4kq2dI don’t like Kermit but lots of good people have been addicted to drugs at some point in their life.
@@metaldude4563that is fantastic, I'm going to use it
It was fun trolling people in social media comment sections by saying, “I liked _The Sound of Freedom_ better when it was called _Taken_ and starred Liam Neeson.” 😅 Good times.
Stunning and Brave. I bet everyone claps when you show up.
@@whatwhatwhat1432 - I get a standing ovation. Tell me what it feels like when you finally get one.
how? they're pretty much the same thing
You’re so hilarious. Wow. You probably just stole it from another comment. The problem is you thought it was funny enough to steal and repeat a bunch of times.
@@CBright7831 From 14 people on UA-cam 👊
"imagine making a movie about child trafficking and thinking it's possible to stay out of politics" THANK YOU. I have family members who are like this, I love them and I love spending time with them but it gets so awkward so quickly b/c of how hard they actively try to not discuss or acknowledge "politics." It's such a weird way to think, that if you just ignore something it doesn't affect you.
Yeah like trafficking is rooted in capitalism if you really think about it
@@Lovefortea448 Yes, apparently every bad thing that has ever happened is rooted in capitalism...
@@michaelcome9447Don't make this political.
@@tytro1124 Is that sarcasm?
@@michaelcome9447 ua-cam.com/video/WI5B7jLWZUc/v-deo.htmlsi=_5u7TkR-C44xn6hh
Reminds me of a recent stand up special where he says "did anyone else trick themselves into thinking they were getting smarter by following politics when in reality politics were just getting dumber?"
Politics just makes me feel really negatively about where humanity is going, honestly.
I read this in Randy Savage's voice cause of your pfp lol
I used to feel that way but I genuinely think once the baby boomer generation starts, uh, "passing on", so to speak, things will begin drastically improving. Like there are certainly bad guys in my generation, but generally speaking we lean far further left than previous ones. Plus, there's a surprising spike of conservative beliefs upon owning a home, so we'll continue to be left leaning, lol.@@AngryReptileKeeper
Hell yeah dude
@@Badmanpuntbaxteri think you're right to an extent but don't forget that systems supercede individuals and their beliefs, and the nature of systems is to preserve themselves in a status quo. Basically, nothing will naturally just change, we still have to be active working towards it because it takes work to put a square peg in a round hole lol
This was one of the most obnoxious eras in recent culture. If you dared to question the sincerity of this movie, you were called a pedophile/human trafficker. And the most ridiculous notion was people going "this film is telling us THE TRUTH and you're too blind to see it!!' as if we didn't know human trafficking was a thing???? That was the worst part of it all. Everyone pretended they had no idea this went on until they saw this "life changing" movie.
how? lmao there quite literally is nothing to question becuase stating the truth is NOT propaganda like the lady in this video with no life is stating
I mean since it's a thing and it's having attention brought to it with a movie and it seems to both you some way, it kinda means you're the problem.
This movie was pretty much pointing it out no different to a documentary so why does this movie bother you so much?
@@macias7125 because of exactly this. TONS of movies have been about human trafficking before. If you actually watched the video, you'd know the production company realized the best way to make a ton of money is start this marketing campaign where they turned this into some sort of political/religious issue. So now ANYTIME you go "who cares about this movie" you get people like you replying like "well this movie exposes the TRUTH and if you dont like it that must mean something EVIL about you...huh? huh? aren't you on OUR side? aren't you gonna #payitforward and buy a bunch of people tickets for this movie?" Like can't you see how you've been manipulated? This is just a random movie twisted into having some sort of greater importance so people like you can market the movie for free
@@GameMageVideos yeah but not about child trafficking and none of those movies went to detail like this movie did.
They never turned this into a political issue lmao are you dumb? WHEN??? They simply made this movie to bring awareness and to gather enough money to fund programs that stop these sort of things.
How is this manipulation? This movie is not political nor has any propaganda in it it’s simply a movie bringing awareness to child trafficking and if it seems to bug you in any way shape or form, then shouldn’t YOU be the one who’s manipulated? Please explain to me how I’m the manipulated one?
The only thing twisted here is your brain lol if you have a problem with child trafficking awareness then that’s saying a lot
@@GameMageVideoswell said
Is there some readon you hate this movie beyond political tribalism?
No leftist movie gets so questioned about their true morality and intention.
Judging from that pause it wasn't God, it was a stroke
He got that demonic interference.
[alien conspiracy theorist voice] he was receiving orders from the mothership
Bro was getting a software update
Imagine if someone made a movie about how murdering is bad, it flopped, no company wanted to make it a movie, and then they claimed that Hollywood supports murdering :)
It’s true sometimes though. Black Adam flopped, and Hollywood has a history mistreating blacks
Well, a film was released last year that had one of its character's claim that things like euthanasia, abortion, and the death penalty are considered murder, and also the person stating this is a death row inmate possessed by a demon (who is also the title character of the film), would that count
@@erichfiedler1481What film is that?
@@joshraid1550 it's called Nefarious, and if you wanna know how bad it is, the directors/writers also wrote God's Not Dead, abs the best way I can describe it is that it's basically if a dollar store version of Exorcist 3 and The Seventh Seal did a Fusion Dance and they botched it and looked like Fat Gotenks
Don't forget that the creator of that movie will then make the claim that they made the movie because they had some sort of "spiritual awakening" telling them that murder is... actually kinda bad.
This essay is _wayyy_ too smart to hold the attention of the average Sound of Freedom fan for longer than a few minutes.
If they could read, they would be very upset.
@@cheesezee86😂😂😂😂
I know this is tongue in cheek but you'd be surprised sometimes who believes what and why. 😊 worth trying to share with people who liked it imo!
@@paigekutz8539no it isnt. These people are war brained fanatics. They cannot help but form entire ideologies based entirely around contradicting whatever their enemy is doing.
If a movie helps bring to light atrocities, does it really matter if its good or bad?
This dude needed GOD to tell him to release his conservative propaganda film on July 4th?
not the brightest
I find it very interesting how God told him to release the movie on July 4th in particular.
Like seriously, people like this make me groan, they’ve mistaken God for a telemarketer.
@@evanrutledge-sz4yoI wish the Mormon god gave me tips in my math exams :c
@@zaidlacksalastname4905 I wish God sent down a piece of scratch paper and a pencil, you know, because I ain’t always gonna have a calculator.
So child trafficking is now "conservatives propaganda" XD? Bruh this what moist critical got confused at his stream saying "how a movie about child trafficking is right wing propaganda?" At his chat XD. Jeez you people get so brainwashed by both systems groups
I don't wanna bash Americans too much, but I'm 100% sure the reason why this movie did so well is simply because a blonde blue-eyed super agent saved some uncivilized niños
Also the movie has the word "Freedom" in its title so that's huge
I mean both points are spot on
Found the Jew
@@Huskerguy316 ben shapiro is a jew
Thanks for not wanting to bash us, but we sooo deserve it
@@Huskerguy316 Found the Nazi.
Much of what you talk about here reminds me of this tweet I read a few years back. Maybe someone remembers it or not. It was about a law being passed giving the death penalty for child abuse, I believe. Someone quote retweeted it to say that such a law won’t do much to stop child abuse, and may in fact make it harder for abused children to tell someone what’s happening to them. After all, if you know your abuser, who might be a parent or other loved one, could be killed if you speak up, why would you? Abused children generally still love their abusers
I remember seeing so many people upset about this quote retweet and, regardless about wether or not you agree with what this person was saying, if you even believe the death penalty should be legal, it was so clear to me that many people lashed out not because of actual reasonable counter arguments they had considered, but because of an overwhelming sense of anger and disgust they held toward all child abusers. You may think, isn’t that a normal reaction? And yes, that would be right. But like you said, disgust in the face of crimes against children does not do anything to help said children.
Reading these replies, I felt that many people were so disgusted and angry with this hypothetical child abuser, that they had perhaps forgotten to truly care about the well being of the victims. If you truly care about the victim, you would prioritize measures to help them even if it means putting aside your anger toward their abuser. It may mean a child abuser perhaps going into therapy instead of being killed as we may instinctively desire. But that doesn’t satisfy our bloodlust. Satisfying our desire for revenge often means leaving the person you’re avenging behind in the process.
It’s not enough to hate child abusers. You must care about victims of abuse too, and your care for them must always outweigh your hatred for their abusers.
As you said, truly helping child victims doesn’t often involve bursting into a scene of danger to heroically tear a helpless child away from a cruel stranger who has kidnapped them off the streets, an inhuman monster, cartoonishly evil. It often just involves addressing mental health issues to stop people from becoming abusers, funding shelters, finding ways to educate children about abuse that doesn’t involve painting abusers as complete strangers that constantly belittle and hurt you, and instead showing that abusers are often family members or other trusted adults who may usually act kind and affectionate until they’re not
A wonderfully articulated comment, thank you
brilliant comment. Hope your weekend is going alright 🤗
A lot of abusers are closely related to the child (fathers, older brothers and the like), so it wouldn't surprise me at all, if even less victims of CSA would speak out were the death penalty hanging in the air... Also a lot of these 'sound of freedom' fans would freak out and silence the victim if the abuser were someone they love.
@@halfbloodprincess989i know people would probably throw major bitchfits about it but i swear 99%of these problems could be solved with some sort of parenting license, monthly free professional mental health check ins, and better sex education
@@nope19568My ex-stepdad actually did have to do mandatory parenting classes after his wife died and he was the sole parent of two kids. He did extremely well in this classes. He was also extremely abusive and ended up murdering my mother after years of abuse towards everyone in my family. He was in therapy the entire time. I also have a friend whose parents were foster parents. In order to be a foster parent in my state, you have to take many classes and get licensed, including classes teaching against physical punishment and abuse. Their parents took all of these classes, got approved, were great friends with many of the adults involved in the foster process, and proceeded to be extremely physically abusive towards both their biological and foster children, and openly talked to their circle about all the propaganda classes they had to take to get more children and joked about how easy it was to lie through them.
It’s a great idea in concept. It’s easy to see abusers as stupid people who can be foiled by education. But it just doesn’t work in practice. Do I think parenting classes/licensing, sex ed, and mental health services should absolutely be available for free? Absolutely! They do help people! Hell, maybe the would stop some abusers. But I also wish people realized how manipulative and good at fooling the system abusers are. None of these abusers were inherently smarter or evil masterminds, hell, my ex-stepdad barely finished high school because he was failing so many classes. But there’s this idea that abusers are-on some level-stupid, and they’re abusive because of that stupidity, and because of that stupidity they’d be easily fooled by licenses and therapist. And that’s just not true.
Sorry for the long comment. I’m not angry at all, because I used to think that stuff like that would stop abusers. But it just doesn’t.
I remember when _American Sniper_ came out and the right tried to convince everyone that watching it was a patriotic duty. Seeing it all happen again with _Sound of Freedom_ gave me serious deja vu
god, yeah! I was really young when that came out and I still got deja-vu hearing about sound of freedom. felt like a bizarre, confused childhood dream
I was one of the few people who saw American Sniper because I was a moviegoer and just wanted to see it in theatres! Big mistake. Theatre was jam-packed with church group people-- I was sitting next to this group of 5 middle-aged ladies who COULD NOT stop gasping whenever something intense happened on screen-- which is the whole goddamn movie. Worst movie viewing experience of my life.
I always ask people "how did he get into a shooting argument then"
That movie is the antithesis of human moral and spiritual responsibility. It's disgusting, like every other war-marketing of Hollywood. I had the impression that you had to have something wrong with your head if you felt inspired by that piece of military-industrial propaganda.
The more things change the more they stay the same
Holy shit, I'd say that someone who says describes pornography like a gateway drug to CP needs watching very closely. That absolutely blows my mind, that someone can not only say that but say it publicly, without any awareness of how bad it sounds.
This woman is way too level-headed for UA-cam
I love how this was the last comment before the platform shut down comments for almost a whole day.
In short: people get trafficked because they're POOR.
So make them not poor.
Be nice, wouldn't it?
There's more poor than traffickers.
Well, that's never been the correct reply, has it? I mean, when you cut down to the base of most societal problems... But their worlds find that worse than the actual issue. To help your fellow neighbor for the good of all just doesn't sell.. so here we are in a world where "greed is good" is even better. Inequality everywhere
@@surfacematter2098 Oh well. I'm off to watch Made in Chelsea.. Good English values!
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD ok... so what? That doesn't mean that what they said isn't true. What you said is true and what they said is true simultaneously.
It's easy to see the world as black and white when you're not the one that has to deal with this crap 🤷♂
"Disgust doesnt do anything. The only thing disgust succeeds in is in locating yourself within intolerable and unpredictable conditions." Perfect way to summarize performatism.
This was absolutely amazing. The effort and passion you put into this really shows. I would eat up any long form videos like this in the future, too.
This was not passion. It was smug contempt.
@@AlexReynardIt’s okay to express contempt for things that are contemptible.
@@gabimartinez8862 Are you guys aware that your idea of "contemptible" is "a guy with firsthand experience in preventing child trafficking isn't doing it the way *_I_* think he should"?
@@AlexReynard She literally says in the video that she thinks he’s done noble things though. Her problem is that the narrative he paints is self serving and seems to be more interested in recounting how his way is the BEST way to deal with the problem rather than centering the hardship of the people actually put into these situations and the conditions that create these situations. Conditions that he directly opposes changing by nature of being a religious conservative. Yes, I would say taking child sex trafficking and making it about yourself is pretty contemptible.
@@gabimartinez8862 "She literally says in the video that she thinks he’s done noble things though."
One compliment doesn't outweigh half-an-hour of condescending character assassination.
"Her problem is that the narrative he paints is self serving and seems to be more interested in recounting how his way is the BEST way to deal with the problem"
Please step back and consider: What would you think of some UA-camr making a video about a surgeon, telling him, 'You're doing surgery wrong. I know better than you how you should be doing your job'?
>Yes, I would say taking child sex trafficking and making it about yourself is pretty contemptible.
Why? *He's actually doing the work.* And all she's doing is complaining about him doing it. Maybe, I dunno, that's an attitude that one has to take in a position like that, to prevent the stress of the job from driving you insane, or preventing nihilism from taking over. Maybe, after looking at thousands of images of horrifying child abuse, if you don't narrow your focus, you lose your fucking mind. I certainly wouldn't have the gall to criticize someone doing a job I don't have the faintest idea how to begin doing.
Something I feel is worth mentioning, when it comes to the movie's fans swearing that no celebrity speaks out on child trafficking, is that when conservatives say "how come nobody talks about [topic]", they haven't actually looked to see if that's the case.
1:06:45 Amazing how his first response to hearing something that doesn't align with his own personal worldview is "they're just being silly, they don't know what they're talking about"
Very glad you noticed that, it’s such an incredible blend of childish naivety and well-fed arrogance
I like how the Daily Wire tried so hard to prove they aren't sexist that they got a contingent of their own fans to think they were going woke.
Reminds me of what happened when they made that western film with Gina Carano, Daily Wire spent years hating female characters in movies calling them mary sues then they ended up making one for their own movie. You should see the reviews for it a lot of DW fans called it woke.
@lazuruswolf6668 i mean star wars is terribly woke and full of mary sues.
It's kind of funny that they spent so much time complaining about superficial female empowerment that they never learned how to make meaningful characters
@@John-bravoooyeah no it’s not
@Overseer2579 good argument. Kathleen kennedy ADMITTED to forcing "girl strong" identity politics.
It really says something about how little these people care about trafficking/CSA that these types of stories always seem to end with the victim back home, usually with their family, when anyone with PTSD can tell you that surviving the actual thing is only the start. It takes time to recover, and a lot of people who are abused as kids go on to be abused in different ways as adults. But these people don't care about adults. They don't even actually care about the kids. The idea of childhood innocence is what needs to be protected, and if you aren't innocent, if you didn't fight back, if you weren't kidnapped out of your home, if you were queer, if you said yes to anything even if you didn't understand it, well, you weren't innocent so they don't need to care.
Aint ever about being good, just about protecting some vague ideal of purity for these people.
its funny, bc theres an old SVU episode that managed to handle this concept with more grace and intellect than this whole movie. in it, a girl who was kidnapped as a child and kept prisoner for years acts cold and distant from her parents when shes found. she has no memories of her childhood with them and doesnt recognize beloved toys. she isnt comfortable around them and even confesses to sometimes missing her captor. its ugly and sad, and the parents are coached through accepting that even though their dream of having their daughter back isnt going the way they wanted, they need to respect her boundaries. specialists help them understand that she is going to need time and patience to recover, and what THEY think of as love and concern looks completely alien to her. in the end the parents discard her childhood toy, accepting that the ideal of an instantly healed child they want isnt realistic, and that its only hurting all of them to cling to it. instead they move on to getting to know this new version of their daughter and learning to be happy together.
its a very profound look at how sometimes, the trauma of another can feel hurtful to us, because we just cannot understand the world through their eyes anymore. how abuse completely warps our ideas of whats normal, and how kids deserve autonomy and room to express their pain too. its honestly amazing how the daily wire could fail so acutely to capture even a sliver of the nuance of a daytime tv show from 25 fucking years ago.
@@SaibellusThat sounds surprisingly well done. Wouldn't have axpected that from SVU.
How are you extrapolating all of this? I think you hate the other side and you're just making all this stuff up to have a reason to hate them. You don't any of this, real men who've spent half their lives fighting sex trafficking were an integral part in this movie. How can you say those men don't care about child trafficking?
That is so true
Only 30 minutes in and this blows all the other media critiques I’ve seen of this film out of the water. Good god damn job!
Thank you ☺️
For the record, Tim is being sued by one Kely Johana Suárez Moya for defaming her by having accused her of trafficking children. By her own account, she (a legal adult) accepted an acquaintance's invitation from Tim's team to a party for minors who would be paid to attend and be paid more if they engaged in explicit deeds. She arrived at the party and pretended to be a minor herself so that she could get paid, and she's not the only adult who was doing this at the party.
Whether you accept her explanation or not, the fact still stands that Tim actively increased the demand for trafficked children in Columbia with that party stunt by providing explicit monetary incentive. This is why such strategies aren't used. You may get lucky and rescue a few kids, but this method creates a cascade of consequences that leads to more being trafficked.
*See, that’s the thing!!*
*Because those kids DON’T know that Ballard Is doing a stunt, because there’s MORE than one way to rescue them than that!!*
*This Is why I think that Tim needs to be WAY more cautious when It comes to his methods.*
"...because the kinds of conservatives that produced and enthusiastically consumed this movie are people for whom the word 'freedom' means the right to abandon reality; that you should be allowed to say whatever you want about anything, and when whatever you're talking about becomes too difficult to understand, when it requires action that might be inconvenient for you or doesn't really fit in with the character arc you've got planned for yourself, your responsibility for your own words is over."
That is so unbelievably on point. That whole last part of the video really.
Add this one to the list of GOAT video essays.
fr. her pen was on fire
That trump interview is so funny he sounds like a kid in school that didn’t read the book being put on the spot to talk about it.
TBH he sounds like that on most things he talks about. Guy is the ultimate bullshitter
This is also why it's extremely funny whenever Trump is asked about the Bible.
Trump's life is pretty much just him "wingin' it" through one situation after another.
“The rising action followed by the falling action was really, it was really just, wow.”
LOL
The rescue and release model makes me think of when cops groom an angry weirdo online into trying to do a terrorist attack by selling them explosives. Then they go an arrest the guy and claim they stopped a potential threat
Verasteguí tried to be a presidential candidate for the elections in Mexico. He tried to seek support from Catholic people, but was ignored for practical purposes. He failed to meet the basic requirements to be a candidate - without going into too much detail on Mexican electoral laws, he needed about 1 million signatures of support, he achieved approximately 150k -, he proceeded to disqualify the regulatory institutions, and now he is asking to put their names on the ballots, even though those votes will have no value in the count.
Holy shit, the unabashed "we boldly let you spend your money on our movie again by buying another ticket for someone" was bonkers
The fact that they end the movie with a call to action to buy more tickets instead of a list of other organizations that deal with human trafficking is one of the things that makes the film seem hollow.
@@jordanholt9170 Seem hollow?
@@d3nza482 Performative might be an apt term, too.
@@d3nza482like they're using the messaging in their movie for making money for themselves instead of to actually help solve the problem they're talking about. If someone makes a video on Palestine, they usually link to charities that support their message and also send their profits from the video there, whereas with this movie they are only asking people to give them more money.
Why is it wrong for them to do that?
i watched this movie in theater with my parents and sister. i remember leaving so incredibly angry... how can they use such a nuanced and horrifying subject as an advertisement for their religion/ideology.
They did this at my old church too. They used to organize these "marches against human trafficking" once a year cooperating with an organization that actually helped victims of sexual trafficking. I went a couple of times as a volunteer to hand out pamphlets to curious bystanders, and the people who organized the event had to be very persistent to every volunteer that it was NOT a chance to advertize our church. And even so, some people did. The pastors and leaders of the church always marched at the front, making sure they were caught by the cameras, ready to show the world how much good they were doing, and trying to get more people involved with their church. Never in the remaining time of the year was this subject brought up again in church.
This is exactly how this movie felt to me, and i think that's why i left the theater so angry.
"how can they use such a nuanced and horrifying subject as an advertisement for their religion/ideology."
My impression is that it's effectively just Ballard engaging in some old-fashioned self-aggrandizement. Dude's ego is massive and greedy.
Church horror stories shouldn’t be happen so much in a place that’s supposed to be morally sound
Not surprisingly, they're doing worse than the Pharisees their main lad used as a major example of what not to do.
Hypocrisy at its finest.
The left has their own religion yet no one bats an eye.
Focus should have been prayer and serving the organization - the Word should come afterwards and the last thing should be the church name.
This is hands down one of my favorite videos on this entire site. Masterfully done from start to finish.
Thanks for watching ☺️
So, i watched this movie since my grandmother gave me the tickets, and i thought it would be interesting for me to watch as someone who was kidnapped and technically human trafficed (she had money for keeping me in the home, but did not pimp me out or anything like that) and i found it a really... strange story. Mostly because it didnt feel real in the slightest. It made me emotional, sure, but i found myself wondering more about what was actually happening to the children. How they got so many, how they survived their day to day lives. But i didnt get that. The kids in this movie are the most innocent naive things that seemingly do nothing, ask for nothing, and have very few actual opinions on what is happening to them other than the fact it makes them sad. But the strange thing is, a story like this is going to be believed way more than a story like mine. My story isn't someone snatching me up in a van. I didnt have that popertially sad look, i didnt even realize that I should be sad about what was happening to me. And i could tell you a hundred different stories about the abuse i suffered, but they wouldnt feel like the stories shown in the movie. Mine are just much quieter, much more feasible than a big bad child stealer. Every time i talk about it i have at least one person say im lying. And i think i know why. Its because law enforcement didnt do anything about it. I didnt have a white savior, or a good guy with a gun. I didnt have a social worker come and take me home. Me, and the three other children that were there, all fell through the cracks. I was just lucky that my mom could afford a private investigatior and go through the long years of legal battle it took to get me back home. My mom had rich parents to take me home.
This is all to say, a story like mine is so much harder to fathom than a story the song of freedom tells. Song of freedom is willing to pat you on the back for watching a film, for tweeting about a film, but not for actually doing anything. It awards you for the basic human instinct of outrage at what happens to these children, and the joy that comes from knowing they are okay. And that is an amazing feeling, its a useful feeling. But only if you let that feeling motivate you to actually do something. To actually write a check. To actually reasurch. To actually join an organization, to actually advocate for a world where children like me dont need to be rescued in the first place. No one is actually ready to do that, no one who watched this movie and came away with the idea that all we need to do is send some agents out of the country and it will be fine is actually willing to do that. It speaks volumes to me, that they'd rather imagine a world where human trafficking is an isolated problem, than to actuality look me in the face and understand that the reason i was kidnapped was not because of evil people wanting to evil things. It was as simple as my mom couldnt afford to have me at the time, so she sent me to live with someone who had ulterior motives. And no amount of good guy with a gun will stop that happening to someone else.
*Thank you!!*
*I feel as a trafficked victim yourself, YOUR experience Is the one that matters the most. After all, people weren’t willing to believe you because they were so naive and foolish to not do research.*
*Another Ironic and hypocritical thing some of the Sound Of Freedom fans Is that they’re attacking and harassing ACTUAL gay former trafficked victims online, simply for not agreeing with everything In the movie. Some of them were like “Oh, you’re gay, so there’s a chance that you wanted It!” The fact that people are ACTUALLY saying this Is VERY telling. 😒*
@khakachu7778 yes. I'm also queer, and the idea of 'wanting' abuse is really insidious because it lacks the understanding that most abuse victims who were kidnapped or taken from their homes, don't actually recognize what is happening to them. I was in such an environment that I didn't know pretty much anything about the outside world until was six or seven years old. I went months without leaving the house, and of course I had some kind of bond with my abuser. They positioned themselves as the only person that could allow me to eat, drink, read, or play. Of course I would grow to see them as a 'good' thing in my life because I didn't know of anything else. Of course I would see them as someone who's there to help me, despite how they would physically and emotionally abuse me, as well as starve me and deprive me of water. You could make a case that I 'wanted it' if you wanted to. But it's like saying a starving person WANTS to eat dirt in order to live. It's just not how it works. This movie definitely sparked a lot of conversations. Sadly, only the useless ones.
All due respect.
Isnt sending your child away to someone like that evil? and isnt that person evil for wanting to do those things? Maybe I'm misunderstanding you...
@@Red_Lion2000 so, in my case. She didn't know any of this would happen. She had a friend who would do a scam where she'd find women who couldn't afford to house their kids, befriend them, and then offer to take them in. She did this with three other children. My mother at the time had cancer and a new born baby, and she was told she could visit frequently, and I would go to school. Well a few weeks later she was sent a contract and the woman told her that she'd need to sign it for me to go to school. She didn't realize that she was essentially signing her rights away.
This was so she could have children to trick the government into giving her money. I wouldn't say my mom was evil. I'd say maybe she should've looked into it a bit more. But she was a cancer patient with a newborn baby, I'm not gonna blame her for being easily manipulated. While my version of human trafficking isn't exactly like the kind you are probably used to hearing, kidnapping children for money is what constitutes human trafficking.
@@Red_Lion2000 also to elaborate. I'm not saying the lady who harmed me wasn't 'evil' or whatever. She was a bad person. But I also understand it isn't as simple as that. If my mother had the resources she needed, I would not have ended up in that situation. I also have to acknowledge the fact that the woman who abused me was also a hard user of drugs and alcohol. I'm not saying she'd be any better to kids if she *wasn't* but that also has a large impact on what happened to me. A large amount of the money she got from housing me and the other kids went to drugs and alcohol, would she have still done what she did if she didn't need the money for the drugs? If she had been off the drugs in the first place? I don't know. But probably not. Whatever you call it. Injustice, evil, what have you. They're systemic issues, and they need systemic solutions
I can definitely relate to what Tim Ballard is saying re: superimposition of my children onto victims. When I worked as a paramedic, this happened to me, with some dead children. My child's face was superimposed onto theirs, and I hallucinated his voice talking to me, as I performed CPR on these dead children. Unfun for me, though obviously less fun for the parents of the children who had actually died. The wails of the mothers of dead and dying children still echoes in my mind, all these years later. The unimaginable agony in those screams
Take care of yourself ♥️
@@themorbidzoo thank you. I'm quite well, for the most part, these days
@jeremydoerksen877
Please remember that you dont have to be ok after seeing stuff like that. Not being ok is the correct response.
Fuck's sake... if you were having full-blown audio-visual hallucinations, maybe that wasn't the best line of work for you?
@@jackflash8218 calm down. it's very intense to see a child's dead body. and we have no idea the state they could have been in. it's one of those things that tends to be a textbook form of trauma... and we know that trauma makes the brain do weird stuff. it's not like they regularly experience psychosis
"There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs."
The human condition requires an unobtainable catharsis.
Nice
@@themorbidzoo I just don't believe in "white saviorism". The West is the most organised group of nations in the world yet they can't solve human trafficking? They fund wars which creates instability therefore opportunity to traffic humans seeking refuge. Most sex tourists anywhere are Western men. Brazil, Ghana, Thailand - who do you see? Western men taking advantage of poor people who can't make ends meet. Passport Bros came bit late but same idea.
Sounds like something Mussolini would say.
@@mirror8519 what the fuck are you talking about
@@epileptictrees5213 In the fascist manifesto it says something like "we don't aim to fix the problems in the world and create an utopia, because that's impossible. we just aim to make the lives of the prople better within our limits", idk it reminded me of that lol
This is the first video of yours I've seen, and in the MOST complimentary way possible, you strike me as ContraPoints without the crazy sets/production -- incredibly well-written/spoken/researched, and very insightful. Also very blunt, in the best way. Love your commentary.
Thanks, big compliment 😊
I thought it was a very mid movie, nothing to write home about. Saw a video of Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard talking about how kids are being trafficked for adrenochrome, that’s when I say “Aight, Imma head out”. It could’ve had a nice message until they started with the adrenochrome BS. Mental illness is bad in this country.
what pxsses me off is the misinformation(adrenchrome) that discredits the actual crimes that have been committed by politicians and govt. I’m talking about the Franklin Scandal and The Finders cult. These things actually happened and are still happening
NOOOOo!!!!! someone started talking about the aboose of women and chyldr3n and helping to expose it to raise awareness and to stop it
NOOO!!!!!!! “Aight, Imma head out”
mark jesse exposed in 4k engaging in the crimes that this movie is talking about
@@henrylangham6428 Oh look, an anime avatar making the exact points this video deconstructs, but will never know it since they didn't actually watch the video at all.
@@OrgaNik_Music you only mentioned anime because you have a hatred of Asians and Japanese and you think they are whyyyy???te therefore are evyle oppressors
you only talk bad against me and this movie bc you support pdf fiyl-ia
@@OrgaNik_Musicit's always either an anime avatar or a username that's just a random string of letters & numbers
I have bipolar disorder. What I’m seeing in American society atm is what a typical manic episode for me feels like, but spread out among the average citizen. Everything is frenetic and every new idea or piece of information is the most important piece of information to ever exist. People, albeit out of ignorance rather than maliciousness, buy into the new crop of conspiracy theories with such gusto that they begin to almost *hope* that the horrific and disgusting consequences become a reality. Whether it’s every member of congress having children in their basement or a microchip implanted from a vaccine that turns the inoculated into a zombie democrat, they’d rather be right than be okay. Good vid!
I’ve had the same thought 🫠
Well fk'n said! 👍🏼👍🏼
I know this is completely irrelevant to what you said, and I apologize for that as you truly provide an insightful perspective, but I just gotta say that I love ur profile pic.
"america is and has been undergoing a large scale manic episode" is not something i ever thought of but makes so much sense and now im never going to stop thinking about it
I'm not a victim of human trafficking, but I am a victim of the proxy issue of CSA, and I found this video extremely cathartic to watch. The conservative narratives around CSA, why it happens, where and who does it has always been to be a constant reminder that despite performance people put on, they're more concerned with how uncomfortable the reality I actually dealt with makes them than me. They don't care why what happened to me did or what they can do to stop it from happening to others, they care about how upset the idea of it makes them. So man it is everything to just see people willing to talk straight about it. Be pragmatic about what really needs to happen for it to change. Holy shit how little I care at this point how much it upsets people on a personal level--- it needs to start upsetting people on a systemic level for it to stop.
i think if you look at the last few years, the main driver of their indignance over CSA is that they're always looking to demonize "the left" and this movie gave them another reason to call everyone left of tim pool a groomer. that is the main motivation. its all about team sports mentality and the other team is always bunch of groomers or NPCs or whatever other buzzword is popular. you need to wrap your head around just how dumb and petty this movement is.
Also a victim of CSA and online grooming+exploitation when I was a minor. This video was also extremely cathartic. No one cared why it happened to me, I was often even blamed for it. You know being a queer, vulnerable child, with a physical disability and undiagnosed AuADHD does make you more vulnerable to abuse yet no one seemed interested in why. Only the moral vindication of kicking down the door for punitive punishment rather than a complex understanding of trauma and need for a nearly inhuman amount of empathy for them.
@@rowanmurphy4986
I don’t want to belittle your experience, but in the defense of morons, the Internet thrives on outrage, and it thrives on people being outraged at other peoples outrage, media on the whole follows this model and the thing about outrage is that it either burns out, or needs to be very constructively channeled, and the second thing is basically impossible to do when we’re always moving onto the next thing.
@@allthenewsordeath5772 The silver lining here is that once the outrage burns out, we will be able to have rational discussions about this.
Survivor of grooming here, and yeah-- victims are treated like they're evidence of the crime. Uncomfortable to be around. They want to be heroes. They can't deal with a situation where there's nobody to save.
One of the producers of that film is Eduardo Verastegui, a Mexican actor and singer.
He was quite famous in the 90s and 2000s.
It was learned that she had a love relationship with Ricky Martin (who at that time had not yet come out of the closet)
After that, he disappeared for a long time.
Until he reappeared but he was no longer the same.
He converted to Christianity and became the face of Mexican conservatism.
He became friends with quite important politicians and religious figures at that time.
Including Marcial Maciel, a priest accused of rape and abuse of minors.
The man has spent the last few years talking about the dangers of homosexuality on open television and on the internet.
At one point two years ago, Eduardo announced that he was going to run as a presidential candidate for the 2024 elections in Mexico.
Using the same tactics as the Republicans in the USA.
Fear campaigns, attacks on everything that does not represent the Right and a great hatred towards the LGBT community.
He promised to return honor to Mexico (sic) and also that he was going to inaugurate a Christian state.
The man had a kind of egocentric personality around his campaign and also became quite violent in certain cases.
At the beginning of this year, the Mexican electoral institute announced that Eduardo had not obtained enough signatures to be considered as a candidate and had to drop out.
After that, he became much more erratic, posting videos using assault rifles (which is illegal here in Mexico), Accusing everyone of sabotaging his campaign and blaming the president for doing nothing.
That only ended badly for him, because the authorities summoned him to justify the fact that he had received money from the United States for his campaign (which is also illegal).
I’m Australian and I remember watching this movie in theatres with my mum and grandma who actually cared about it. The theatre only had a handful of people in it, mostly older couples. I remember walking out of the theatre just thinking something was off about the whole thing but ultimately forgetting about it.
Seeing the reaction to it in America compared to Australia is absolutely fucking wild to me. It’s hard to believe that anyone could care about a movie that feels like a well meaning but ultimately flat psa stretched out over a movie runtime
Australian as well, I went to see it with my dad and a couple of women from church. I definitely agree with your summarisation that it's a psa stretched too thin, it feels like a self congratulatory fluff piece, just there to make Tim b and 'Murica look good. I had actually wanted to see the movie, I feel very strongly about the subject matter, but ultimately I think it was hollow and meaningless, what does it accomplish? Did it actually help anyone? None of the profits went to helping anti trafficking, it was just about making money to line their own pockets, and there are other ways to bring attention to a cause than making a feature length film about it. The film itself is too focused on the happy ending and making sure that the audience feels good to really send a message that has any impact. You leave with the good feeling that everything is okay, because Tim is a big hero who saves the day, instead of being forced to sit and think about the reality of life and how this actually goes in the real world. A better ending would have been not to have rescued the girl, making an attempt that ultimately fails and nothing can be done, but using it to strengthen resolve not to let it happen again, showing the reality of the situation. I would have had five minutes at the end of the movie having someone who works to stop trafficking talk to the audience about how to better protect their children, actually use the platform to do something useful. Anyway I need to stop ranting and finish watching the video 😅
These are the type of people who see a pride flag in front of a church they don't even go to and start ranting about how western society is dying and how "its people have abandoned God".
Expecting a proportionate response out of a committed ideolog, especially an American one, is folly.
Your answer reminds me of a movie I watched shortly beforr sound of freedom! I don’t remember the name but it was about a murderer of women who were prositutes in Iran, so gut wrenching and the ending DID end in a „well the problem is not that one murderer, he‘s dead but the problem will continue“ and afterwards the freedom movie was feeling SO much flatter but I couldn‘t put my finger on it, I just thought I‘d rather hear the story from the children themselves and not a polished version from That Tim…
@@missveronica8393 or children are saved, but they are realistically traumatized and have long, painful recovery ahead of them.
@@ilonakonradsheim3988holy spider
Saw this blind, didnt even know what it was about, just that my MIL was taking us to see it. Im a CSA survivor. I had to leave after seeing the photos they showed from the pedos stash. I came back and had to leave again at one point for good. My MIL and partner knew my triggers and brought me to see it anyways. Im still upset by that.
Finding out the shady embellishments and propaganda of it all afterwards felt so vindicating, like im glad other people felt something was off about it as well
I’m sorry that happened to you, ugh
@@themorbidzoo literally some of the shots looked like softcore Club Penguin it gave me such an ick around who must have been advising on the film
That's awful! What a complete lack of empathy?
BEN SHAPIRO WANTED TO FORCE FEMME A SPORTS TEAM?!?
If it were attributed to anyone else, this might sound weird.
Ben Shapiro likes sissification confirmed
Lol the fact that he couldn't find anyone willing to try it and admitted it on air and no one cares what this means for his argument
Holy shit based
This was an incredibly illuminating video. Very direct, informative, and empathetic. It really struck a chord with me personally, too. I recall in my own struggles with PTSD and committing to therapy how much I wanted to insert myself into a crisis where I can directly right wrongs and fix problems in order to make my trauma okay, too. But it's such a destructive path that led me to anger, paranoia, and addiction. To see how the methods and institutions of propaganda can weaponize the fears of people in such a way is painful to observe after years of looking inward. Thank you for making this. It must've been so exhausting to research, too. 😅
That tracks from what I hear from a lot of people with trauma, especially men for whatever reason. Exhausting but worth it, thank you 😊
@themorbidzoo it can be tough to live with. But I've truly benefited from therapy, my kids, and good people in my life. I dont need to seek out things to fix anymore. By taking things a day at a time, I practice patience and allow the world around me to just be. I'm happy to subscribe to your channel and wish you the best. 😊
8:45 but the Thing is, Bottoms, a Fight-Club-esque raunchy comedy about lesbians wanting to get laid, also got the same treatment it was only in a few select theatres and was sent straight to streaming. Even The Boy and the Heron was super hard to find in theatres. This movie got multiple posters outside AMCs. So, of course, the far right only notices it when it happens to this movie. This sounds like double standards, lmao💀.
The issue with the release of Sound of Freedom was that it was finished years ago before the pandemic and yet it was not released due to the subject matter not being what Hollywood wanted to be pushing with Weinstein and Epstein scandals going on.
@@phoneemail2035 Also them trying to release at the same time as the whole Barbenheimer thing was not a smart thing anyway and also while Transformers and the Spiderverse sequel were still in theaters. That was a losing battle, they had no chance, but at least they managed to make some profit since they had a smaller budget. But regardless of the vision he had, it was just a poor marketing choice.
Plus movies are just not staying in the theaters as long as they were before the pandemic. Most movies will only have a month or 6 weeks before they're sent to streaming, even Dune 2 was given the same treatment. So if it is a conspiracy, then all movies are a victim not just the Sound of Freedom :/.
Thanks for pointing this out! When I watched “The Boy And The Heron” for the first time, my family and I went to see it in a theater farther away, and it took about a week or two for it to screen at our local theater. I was also disappointed that the movie’s run in IMAX theaters was limited and short-lived (the good news is I saw it at a Cinemark XD theater, the closest thing to an IMAX auditorium, on opening week). Still, not once did I think there was some conspiracy from Hollywood to censor Ghibli or ban Miyazaki’s film.
@@BirdsandGhibliFan there is 100% a khanspearacy to censor Japanese culture and to destroy Japan and their culture. it is proveable with scientific evidence
Getting struck by lightning twice, while pretending to be jesus, really did a number on Jim.
You’d think he would’ve gotten the hint but apparently they’re doing Passion 2!
lol, lowercase j on Jesus 👃👃👃👃
@@JacobHillSBD interesting, is it gonna be an action movie co-starring Chris Tucker? The moment I read that, I couldn't help but think of the joke from Family Guy when they were revived
lol yeah I always figured he took the wrong lesson from that. If *_I_* got struck by lightning while pretending to be Jesus, I'd be VERY careful about what I said about God. But nope.. Jim apparently took getting struck as a sign that he was on the right track 🙃
@@JacobHillSBD I genuinely cannot tell if "The Passion 2" is a joke or not. Either way thanks for the laugh
I thought i was having a stroke the length of time harmon took recalling hearing voices ahem i mean spoken to by god
Dude looked like he was staring into the void, overwhelmed with terror
I want to say, as a former Mormon, that this is a particular type of speaking is quite common in the faith. You start to recount an experience with God, then -- as you approach the actual statement or experience-- there is a looooonnng pregnant pause. And then, always, the first words that spoken after the pause are teary and shaken, usually coming out in short phrases. I saw it coming as soon as he started recounting the story. This isn't to say that he wasn't sincere, but just that he certainly grew up hearing this type of speech pattern.
He claimed he also got emails from God. I wonder if God is more of a Gmail dude or an office suite dude.
19:00; it’s amazing!
@@chrisbudmelman Yeah. Kinda like how shouting "OH GOD! OH GOD! OH MY GOD!" while orgasming might be considered strange to an atheist or Buddhist - but to someone raised as a christian it is perfectly innocuous.
It's a culture thing.
52:12 this is the response of a middle schooler who didnt read the book before his class presentation was due.
This video actually made me think a lot about how my family, my cultural upbringing, and my own ego have brainwashed me into being obsessed with hero narratives. Mostly my own ego. By this I mean thinking that being percieved as a hero or one of the good guys as more important than the actual, tangible good I could be enacting in the world if I rose above my own narcissism (everyone wants social acceptance, but these hero narratives feed narcissism, not something natural and good to want like social acceptance from loved ones and your community.) But still, thank you for making this, and for bringing attention to individuals seeking to address sociocultural factors rather than retelling their own stories.
So good. An hour and a half+ essay with an actually tight script that doesn't lose focus throughout is impossible to come by. Real academic level shit
Thanks 😊
@@themorbidzooit’s true!!!
And it’s not like those long for the sake of length videos. Where it’s like
Part One : History of Cinema
@@user-uv2cp1qd1jAgreed. One of my favorite parts of this channel is how she treats the audience as relatively intelligent people who don't need every tiny connection drawn out for them and that she always assumes everyone is arguing in good faith even when they aren't
An hour and a half script about child trafficking and Hollywood, that doesn't mention how none of Epstein's clients have been brought to justice. Gosh, that's interesting.
It’s the movie THEY don’t want you to see. Whoever THEY are they must be incompetent because this movie was readily accessible
By "they", they probably meant audiences given how nobody talked about it a week after release.
The movie didn't claim to expose anything, it was a mediocre and liberal retelling of true events, it was the reaction from the mainstream media to this movie that raised eyebrows
@@Blandy0487 There were lots of conservative influencers on UA-cam, Twitter, and TikTok that claimed that the movie was exposing something, though. Also, the video creator acknowledges that some of the response from mainstream media to the movie wasn’t very helpful and that some of their reviews might’ve been self-indulgent and used to prop their own political bias, but let’s not pretend that the discourse from the defenders of the film were any better.
@@BirdsandGhibliFan I'm saying conservative influences claimed that because of the way it was covered in the mainstream media and its backlash to the movie. Therefore the mainstream media and the establishment might be complicit in the trade, the movie itself didn't try to make that connection
@@Blandy0487 That’s not evidence that the mainstream media or establishment was complicit in anything. Whether or not the movie itself made the connection is irrelevant and has nothing to do with my point. It’s just an obfuscation of the fact that many conservatives have made bold and outlandish claims that people were trying to censor or ban the movie, which there’s barely any evidence for. From personal experience, “Sound Of Freedom” was heavily advertised on movie theater apps around the time of its release, so I don’t know where conservatives are coming from that the movie was being sabotaged by AMC because the air conditioning in a theater stopped working or because seats were empty. Also, you admit yourself that the film is mediocre, so it begs the question of should it be worth anyone’s time and money to see it in the first place. It’s weird seeing people twist themselves in knots and say, “It’s a mediocre movie, but it’s telling an important story, and that’s all it matters, and anyone who says otherwise must be complicit.” To me, that’s not having a cinematic experience. That’s a virtue-signaling exercise, and I have no interest in that, whether if it comes from the left or the right.
If you want to watch an actually good film about child trafficking, watch Lilya 4-Ever. It's loosely based on the true story of a girl who was trafficked to Sweden from Lithuania in the late 1990s, being told she was going there for a job as a berry picker. It's an extremely tough watch and doesn't pull many punches, but it portrays the reality of how people and especially how children fall victim to trafficking. Hint: it's nowhere near as simple as Sound of Freedom portrays it.
People were NOT kidding about that pause
19:00, no they were not!
I was confused wondering what the comments were talking about because I thought it was a scene in the movie, but then the interview came and the pause happened and I just stared at the screen like "😨 wtf"
As someone who grew up in and eventually escaped the Mormon cult, that "pause while visibly trying control your emotions" is a tactic straight from the Mormon public speaking playbook. All of their leaders do it, but Henry Eyring is the most prolific. As an outsider looking in, it's so obviously manipulative, but the insiders absolutely eat it up. To Mormons, God is found in strong emotion, and the only time that it is appropriate for a man to cry is when he's talking about something that he believes God was involved in.
So, seeing that pause was surprisingly triggering to my religious trauma.
He pulled a Mitch McConnell.
41:15
The "delightful" irony of someone wanting to protect a child... by secretly filming them in a bathroom without theirs nor their parents' consent.
It’s the equivalent of seeing a fight and instead of trying to break up the fight or calling the authorities, someone takes out a phone and records instead. Or seeing someone fall and taking out a phone to record instead of, you know, helping the person up and making sure he or she needs some urgent care.
I had to wipe my phone and glasses off….because you, my friend, ARE SPITTIN!!!!!
😂
“Because the kinds of conservatives who produced and enthusiastically consumed this movie are people for whom the word ‘freedom’ means the right to abandon reality.” 😤😤😤
it's insane how they really can't understand that child trafficking should be stopped by minimising the criteria traffickers look for in these children, and that is inherently politcal
Engagement - I really thought this was a stand out piece. Dare I say (Dare, dare!) “a work of Art!” You made my day, and I hope you are proud of this
Thank you ☺️
Attacking poverty (whatever that ultimately means) would solve a whole host of societal ills, beyond child sex trafficking.
Unfortunately, America is the land of "Fear the stranger in raggedy clothes" to an extremely unhealthy degree, and views them overwhelmingly as a potential threat. America is more interested in punishing bad guys, whoever that it is, than actually helping anybody. The idea that maybe someone gets help that "doesn't deserve it" destroys their willingness to actually help the other people that *do* need it.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
"Attacking poverty" should probably start with people not breeding out of control like wild, mindless Monkeys. 8 billion is way, waaaaay too many. And it's only gonna get worse. Seems like there's real efforts being made to "cull the herd", but I don't know if anything short of a global/celestial event is going to make a dent.
US has spent trillions in the "war on poverty."
The fact that poor people commit crimes more than rich people has an effect on this.
@@user-nz8uy1zm3z Really now?
Don’t ask about all the rapey shit rich people get up to or the financial laws they break every Tuesday.
That’s not a mugging on a sidewalk, so it doesn’t count, I guess.
Political scientist here, and your linking to our previous bout with the last revolution in communication (mass media) to our current (social media) was spot on. It's something I constantly worry about, especially as bad actors like authoritarian states, non-state actors (terrorist organizations, global organized crime), and multi-national corporations continue to exploit it to a startlingly effective degree. As the kids say, it's my "Roman empire". The fact that social media is interactive in ways that traditional mass media could never have been only adds more variables to humanity's ultimate calculation. On a more upbeat note, this goes both ways; good actors still exist (excellent video btw), and the body politic is far from flat-lining. And who knows: maybe we'll skip the world war and mass genocide this go around?
Oof I worry too. It feels like the kind of social fever that won’t break without some kind of large-scale calamity, that’s exactly what happened last time we did this about a hundred years ago. Maybe if we recognize and talk about it it won’t happen? That’s my hope
no, clearly we haven't skipped the mass genocide and emerging conditions for war. this is a startling comment after nearing six months of the Israeli regime bombing and massacring palestinians; war crimes that the ICJ is pursuing the Israeli regime for and the war crimes america has assisted and been in unequivocal support for so much so that they passed a law to stop all aid if palestinian authority sought justice in the ICJ. what about the israeli regime's bombings of south lebanon, yemen, syria with american weaponry? whole events literal shifting the tectonics of the global world order. is it only a large-scale calamity if it's not the global south? i am sincerely confused
This comment is in reference to the systemic issues with trafficking based on my personal experiences.
Back in 2015, I deployed to Central America to take part in humanitarian operations. Honduras was the main country of focus, and we provided aid to areas with food, clothing, medicine, and some infrastructure efforts. One of the main reasons we were there (or at least told) was to combat human trafficking and drug trades while bolstering the Honduran military against MS13. This deployment was a good start and a legitimate effort to improve the immigration issues we see at the border. However, we were absolutely stifled at every turn if we received reports of criminal activities taking place. Much of the deployment devolved into do-gooder cosplay, visiting a new town, village, or community each week. To the point of outright abandoning entire neighborhoods after only one visit for humanitarian aid. We would never visit the same location twice, and our orders prevented us from any significant action against these crimes, despite our reason for being there.
Guys like Jim, who say "a few good Marines, that's all we need.", in reference to the border wall, boils my blood. Because we all know what happened just one year later. General Kelly, who was the regions commanding general for these operations, went on to support Trump and now profits off of privitized migrant camps. Deployment rotations have all been halted to Central America. Those people we tried to help in 2015 were likely among the mass of immigrants we separated at the border, and the vulnerable groups suffering across Cental America have been condemned to their squalor.
This film is a depraved excuse to propell the lie of American exeptionalism. This video essay puts to words the alienation and contempt I feel for propagandizing systemic tragedy.
i really admire not only the obvious quality of your research, but the matter-of-fact, no-bullshit air of your delivery. i can get impatient with a lot of the style choices of video essayists that tend to waffle airily around the subject at hand (often to disguise less than comprehensive understanding of the topic they're presenting). your understanding of what is important to include and how to convey it succinctly really elevates your work as an essayist.
LGBT people are about 7 percent of American population, but LGBT youth is 40 percent of homeless youth. Homeless youth is one of the most vulnerable populations for trafficking, but I will bet actual money that Tim and his cohorts would turn a blind eye on these kids.
They do so due to their homophobia/transphobia.
Conservatives don't actually give a shit about children, shocker
The “perfect victim” narrative many of these people live by exposes that you care more about being a morally righteous person than you do about helping actual victims.
Why would he turn a blind eye to those kids? Just because Christianity doesn’t affirm your behaviour doesn’t mean we hate you.
Trump’s response when asked about his take on the movie is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s the same response I would give my teachers when they’d ask me about the assigned reading that I, “definitely read.” Dude was not paying attention in that theatre. Was on his phone the entire time, I guarantee it.
He liked the beginning, the middle, AND he liked the end. We need more reviewers willing to cut the BS
He particularly liked the part when the person, woman, man, camera, TV. And the part with lion, rhinoceros and a camel. Some say there's an elephant. Most people don't know that.
Remember when asked about his favorite bible verses his response was basically "all of them".
He really digs deep.
@@alfgwahigain5544I do not understand how the greater Christian community sees him as this beacon of Christianity. He’s really the opposite of everything that Jesus taught. It’s insane.
@@davismorgan7955 When I recently went into my old small town to visit my parents, there was a big sign up that said “Only Trump and God can save our country!” Yet the Bible in Exodus 20:3, Matthew 4:10, and Luke 4:8 goes against this idea of having a false idol! “Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.” They really do like to contradict themselves, don’t they? I bet they’ve read as much of the Bible as their “savior” has!
Really liked your take on the Daily Wire - I think you nailed their exact problem. They want to believe that they're making movies that, actually, secretly, all those smirking liberals will really enjoy, and then lie about enjoying because they're not allowed; and they make movies that attempt to live up to their hollow notions that the right-wing are the true guardians of Free Speech, so they have to be violent, explicit, tonally borked, etc., even if that makes them unappealing to honestly everyone. Because, yes, it's about trying to outsmart everyone, rather than outdumb everyone.
It’s hilarious that the film’s fans think that they’re shining beacons of morality for taking the stance that child trafficking is bad.
Like, being against child trafficking is the default stance for anyone with a shred of decency. You’re not exceptional, you’re normal.
For me, the start, the ending, and maybe the result of this video essay might be what I love so much about it.
I see what you did there 🤣
I see what you did there. 🤣
"A simple world, where reality is exactly what it looks like through their eyes: devoid of complexity, devoid of change, where they are right, and their enemies are silent. They are trying to build a flat Earth." ~Dan Olsen, In Search of a Flat Earth
If I could bring a modern invention back in time, it would be a bottom-up view of the universe. Humans are complex things, and we create complex things, so when we look at the complex world around us, we reasonably assume that the complexity probably came about from some other complex thing creating it, and therefore that things are the way they are by design. It's a top down view of the universe. But, it's wrong. Complex things are almost never the result of a designer designing something to be complex. From quantum mechanics to astrophysics to economics or sociology, the world is complex because it's made of trillions of ultra tiny things all doing their own thing, bouncing around and into each other.
The way they talk about child trafficking like it's an inhuman monster from outer space reminded me a lot of the recent legislation that screwed up in vetro fertilization. The legislators had absolutely no idea what they were talking about, and they had no interest in learning or understanding it. They don't want to think about the icky gradient between human and non-human where gestating fetuses sit, because it's a scary place where philosophy meets biology. But instead of trying to square their beliefs about life with the messy reality that there is no single point at which a thing can be described as Alive, they just shoved the problem away as hard as they could as quickly as they could.
There's no James Bond villain responsible for Human Trafficking, like as a concept. You can't end the drug war by beating up all the drug cartel bosses. Killing Osama Bin Laden, while still a good thing, didn't end all terrorism forever. There is no Devil creating evil where there wasn't any before. By insisting that there is, conservatives can pretend the world is flat and simple enough that they never have to lift a finger to make it any better. That's just the way things are. It is what it is. God will provide. Conservatism, and indeed Christianity, are tools of mass self infantilization, as a means of deferring responsibility. And when you tell them they need to make an effort and do something to actually help, they get extremely uncomfortable, not because they're lazy or apathetic, but because it challenges their entire top down view of the universe.
Amazing video.
Extremely well put.
A rather interesting and insightful comment.
Uhm science tells us that life begins at conception. No philosophy needed. Of course if your political ideology tells you something different
@@crazyeight9 I could show you a picture of a cow, human and rat embryo and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
@@leejerrett8268 again science tells us that human life begins at conception. Clealry you don’t accept this basic science because it goes against your political philosophy. If you are honest you could admit that life begins at conception and argue from there
Some of my family members went down the OUR rabbit hole a few years ago (all also Mormon and already prescribed to the whole God-made-the-colonists-make-America stuff), and they've all been SO mad at me since. Your rant at the end really hit the nail on the head for they way they act. Nothing's political until I say the other side, systemic change is impossible besides through guerilla tactics, and everyone who slightly disagrees hates God and wants all good things to die.
Out of genuine curiosity and hope for the future, do you have or know of any suggestions on what to do about the way social media spurs anti-intellectualism? Outright bans can't do it, and moderation, automatic and manual, only seems to be making users more paranoid.
Oof good luck with your family. Personally I think the first steps we should take with social media to truly make it the engine for healthy communication it pretends to be are only allowing adult access and removing the profit motive. This would make the internet significantly more boring and kill the influencer system (which I benefit from), but we need to stop creating incentives to associate the concept of good information with sensationalism, that’s the core of the problem with social media
As a sometimes opera scholar, the pain i felt when the director said the sound of freedom is operatic is indescribable
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@@themorbidzoo hahahahhaa it was soooo good on twitter he was like “there will be consequences” and people were like “what ur gonna do? Pray the rosary?” I was gagging
@@indicev 😂😂😂
@@indicev God will smite them for not appeasing his favorite boy.
“We had a bishop this morning, and what do you think he said?
"The most beneficent promise made us in the Bible is this, 'The poor ye have always with you.' They were put here in order to keep us charitable."
The poor, please observe, being a sort of useful domestic animal.”
- Jean Webster, ‘Daddy-Long-Legs’
You know, I hadn’t heard of this movie and came in with no expectations. But seeing just how much those weepy influencers were admiring their own tears, I knew exactly how it would all pan out - and yes, your excellent analysis was exactly what those tears forecast.
And they call leftists virtue-signalling.
Jean Webster missing the entire point and failing completely at reading comprehension of what the bishop said to make a quippy remark about it has to be peak leftism made manifest
The phrase “admiring their own tears” is such a good one. They like this movie because they feel validated by feeling the appropriate amount of disgust at the subject matter, not because it’s actually effective at countering the issue.
I've seriously heard some overly-religious types argue that welfare programs are bad because they undermine the intended role of the church in caring for those in need.
truth is that every single one of the people who identify with "Right" and the "Left" are mastabatory in the admiration of their own tears and completely asleep at the wheel. They will gobble up whatever opinions are served to them without once questioning the motives of those serving the meals.
The quote above is the perfect example of how the right has completely bastardized The Bible of Jesus’s teaching. Jesus actively helped the poor, actively helped those who were seen “inferior” to society.
This idea that God makes poor people to serve you is nothing but prosperity gospel BS that had poison the American Church.
“Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
The church has become a circus of hypocrisy who take more after the people who crucified Jesus, than they do Jesus.
Hats off to you morbid, you’ve explained the problem much better than Tim ever could, and the solution just makes so much sense. They treat the problem of child trafficking like a disease, when in reality it’s just a symptom of the real disease that is poverty. You can treat symptoms all you want and it’s not necessarily a bad thing, but the disease is still there. The best solution is to change the environment itself to be so inhospitable to the disease that it can’t cause symptoms to begin with. It’s surprising that these people don’t see it that way, but then again I heard Jim Cavelle (I forgot how to spell his last name) is a vaccine conspiracy theorist so we may be preaching on deaf ears.
Indeed funding and improving social services, strengthening workers rights, ending homelessness, making sure children are provided with good sex-ed etc. would do more to end human trafficking than what ever OUT does. Organization such as OUT aren't interested in actually addressing human trafficking and if anything they make the problem worse.
You've pretty much crystalized exactly why this film made me uncomfortable when I was hearing about it and saw it. Great video!
💯💯. Yep
Why do so many Christian media personalities look like they're about to cry?
Well look at where their life and talents have brought them, they have to become Christian media personalities.
Why does AOC?
It’s like a sermon/ preaching
@@De-Nigma😂😂😂
Sermons and religious/political diatribes are performance art. Plus, my theory is that many of them have personality disorders, and for many sociopaths and narcissists, they love to fake normal human emotions in a very exaggerated and theatrical, even histrionic way that can be quite sinister or unnerving. See: Kenneth Copeland
Tim Ballard is an extremely important example when it comes to traumatized individuals buying into the face-value affirmation and vindication of their moral standing/outrage by their immediate and unqualified social circle as a coping mechanism to give their pain & anger a “purpose”. Or rather a pedestal to stand on for self-moral comfort.
It’s like taking an injured leg and propping it up on a cushion, just for it to stay that way forever.
If you want your outrage to mean something, you need to encourage collectivized efforts to contextualize certain atrocities and brainstorm genuine and tangible ideas of progress. Like mass-rehabilitation programs for children to grow out of their trauma, poverty alleviation to increase living conditions and make kidnappings less likely to slip under the radar, or the decriminalization of sex-work so that the secret black market of human-trafficking can lose its mechanism of manipulation, causing the whole market itself to crumble over time.
I tried very hard to not make this a word-salad lol
Hopefully you can understand it❤
"I tried very hard to not make this a word-salad lol"
You succeeded with flying colors! I'm drunk as shit and I had no problem whatsoever understanding you.. so I gotta imagine that you're all good 🤗
What are your qualifications to say you know better how to deal with trafficking than him?
When you see truly horrifying things and your Christian upbringing forces you to think the world is made by a God who loves us, it can be really tough to square that. People in that situation can fight pretty desperately to find some "meaning" in it.
The movie is a clumsy, gross, and tasteless attempt to deny the fact that there is no satisfying story in a child abduction. They're not exciting, they're not meaningful, they're not a source of growth, of character, of redemption, or even very much interest. They're just SAD.
hm where have I heard that line before
What are yours?@@AlexReynard
@@AlexReynardyou're missing the entire point. This assessment shouldn't flow from a point of authority but from one of examining the reality of who is trafficked and WHY. What material conditions contribute to the issue at large. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
This was one of the best video essays I've ever seen on this this film. Your conclusion was so sharp you could split hairs with it.
Taken with Liam Neeson was more impactful then this shit.
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The discourse with this movie was so exhausting
there was no discourse. it was just conservatives calling everyone they dont like a groomer.
Discourse with religious fanatics usually is.
@@djangofett4879so.. the usual?
Every time i see someone who is crying about this movie or describes it as life changing it strikes me that these people dont seem to watch actual movies very often
They strike me as people who have probably never left their home state let alone town and have a very very very narrow view of the world
I feel like their only doing that just because it's a movie about child sex trafficking. As if they can't read survivors stories of google.
I love how you address this stuff without demonizing anyone- I really appreciate it personally
The interview with Tim about his ptsd was really hard to watch
The moment where Caviezel goes, "I played Jesus" and just freezes is... really concerning. Because given what I've read about about his time on Person of Interest, there is a non-zero chance he _actually thinks_ he was/is Jesus. Like, the man is does a weird kind of reverse-method acting - he doesn't try to "become" the character he's playing, he just thinks he _is_ his character.
The way he talks about allowing the Holy Spirit to embody him when he takes a role, I do think he absolutely flirts with the idea that he was actually possessed by Jesus Christ in that movie
@@themorbidzooProbably doesn't help that he was actually struck by lightning during filming. Personally, I'd take that as a _bad_ sign, but Caviezel is an odd one.
@@themorbidzooNo he doesn't.
You are just ignorant of basic theology and dislike the guy lol.
@@juanlulourido548 no dude. I’m a confirmed Catholic and the way he speaks in these interviews would be considered blasphemy.
@@themorbidzoo I am a catholic myself, what he says is well within what is considered acceptable, it isn't even that weird.
American christians being prudes about it doesn't mean everyone is, within what is acceptable.
I feel like in general a lot of the issues Americans have with this movie steem from your particular sociopolitical circumstances.
I think your video is well researched, by I also think it is missing the point of a movie that makes a very simple point, not a documentary.
I genuinely think the movie has good intentions and what has led to this endless social media breakdown is simply people fighting over it pretending it is completely accurate or just cheap propaganda. I stand by the opinion that it is a movie with a simple point: "hey let's be aware child trafficking happens under your noses"
The way you piece things together is amazing. The level of understanding you reach and the nuance you communicate. It hits bro.
Thank you 😊
Word!
The academic quality of this is INSANE! Shit like this is part of why youtube (and by extension video essays) are amazing for conveying information about topics or general thesises. Appreciate the amazing work!
On behalf of Mexico, i sincerely apologize for the existence of Eduardo Verástegui.
Angel Studios dressing up tickets as tithe really is an inspired move. They know their audience.
I'm gay. I love you. So it's official: The gays love you.
Fuck yeah
seconded
Well, I mean that is how things work. It is simply an irrefutable fact now..
queer is here 🎉🫶🏽
You should repent, the Apostle clearly stated the prohibition on sodomy remains in the new covenant.
so i watch a LOT of video essayists but im calling right now, this is the best video essay of the year, if not one of the best ive seen
True.