Sound of freedom

Well true. The movie has been corrupted by the whole context around it, but given the studio and talent involved - and the trailer itself, to watch it - I don't think John Wick, or even Liam Neeson, need worry too much and best case is as you say, a 6/10 movie. It all looks about one step below Netflix's action flicks, just with a religious throughline.

Pizzagate was just another aspect of the new narrative of the conservative movement in the US: they know same sex marriage is popular, abortion too and progressive politics in general - so these drums have increasingly become hollow sources of attack. instead it's all Maude Flanders stuff, scaremongering and histrionics about threats to children however they can fashion it. Drag shows, sex or gender ed books, paedos around the corner ... and the Deep State are probably involved. They've found the one emotive issue they think they can tap to dog-whistle their way into the hearts and minds of what remains of a very Fundamentalist branch of Christianity over there. Just watch a CPAC to see it in action; the Handmaid's Tale isn't that much of a stretch.

Oh hang on a second: first you try to disparage me and insinuate I wanna supress the topic of sex trafficking - so now you pivot to trying to interrogate my thoughts on religion? You're really intent on having a go, and seems you have me all worked out; in which case my part in this conversation seems somewhat redundant - given the ample strawman you've now built for yourself.

Trying to parse my words into some kind of angry bias is bullshít, to be blunt; Sound of Freedom by any reasonable regard in Hollywood circles is a tiny indie movie (budget approx. $15 million), and has made a small splash - but as commentators have pointed out will probably have a long tail that can chip away an ongoing box-office take. But its footprint remains small: $41 million isn't big bucks. But ye gods at trying to read into my choice of single words.

Of course, were you to actually ask instead of presume my opinions, then I'd say that by way of example I can't stand the latter-day movies of Adam McKay or Michael Moore from fadó; polemics where yes Santana I absolutely hate "woke" movies that try to beat me over the head like I'm a moron who doesn't get that (say) Climate Change Be Bad. But if Hollywood Liberalism has taken up a cause to patronise the rest of us? It must be a day ending in Y.

So because on one day, or one week this item isn't covered, you call disgrace and decry the issue as insufficiently covered? Cos I'd ask to look again: maybe you were looking for sex trafficking specifically, but you obviously missed the ongoing fallout from the latest tragedy on the Mediteranean, and the scores of souls dead or lost who were being trafficked into Europe. You can speculate their end-point had they arrived in Greece or Italy, but trafficking & migration is possibly the biggest cross-continental issue going on in Europe right now. Whole governments have been elected on this issue from Italy to the UK: The news might not speak to sex trafficking specifically but it's right there, on a constant basis. We're relatively insulated from the topic in Ireland.

Oh. I'll concede one aspect to your comments about my views on religion: I absolute have no time for American Christian Conservatives, because by their own deed and viewpoints they have more in common with the Taliban than they do with the teaching of Christ, and the broad pantheon of christian faiths over this side of the Atlantic. Any variation of Christianitiy that espouses the WEalth Bible has no right to call itself Christian. Again had you asked instead of presumed, I'd have said that I maintain a great degree of respect for true Christians who live by the words they cherish; peace & love is not a bad goal to strive for after all.

But like I said, at this stage you're just having a go so I'm sceptical we'll meet back in the middle; I think the movie looks shíte, the star & makers dubious, and gonna leave it at that. Adios.