Opinion by Kathleen Parker: It's a shame that QAnon and others from the unhinged right have attached themselves to a film that tackles the troubling subject of the child sex trade.
that he’d rather rescue children in sex slavery than exclusively pursue traffickers. He quit his job and traveled to South America, where he built a team of other former government operators, one of whom, “Batman,” previously laundered money for drug cartels but eventually felt called by God to fight child sex trafficking after he spent the night with a prostitute who he later learned was 14 years old.
“God’s children are not for sale” is the film’s theme — and in both art and life, Ballard and Batman have dedicated their lives to making it true. Together, they hustle the hustlers, creating elaborate scams to catch the bad guys and liberate the children, mostly girls. The phrase “sound of freedom” comes from the makeshift music the children create when they are freed. I leave the story here so you can see for yourself what all the fuss is about.
“Sound of Freedom” had me at the first camera shot as it zoomed toward a window and a little girl sitting on her bed, tapping out a mesmerizing rhythm on a cardboard box top and singing with the voice of an angel. Immersed as I became in the story, there was no ignoring the extreme typecasting of the villains, to the point of caricature. But the audience didn’t mind. Trump would have imagined the creeps and criminals exactly as he likely sees migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Those who remained through the credits were treated to a short message from Caviezel, basically a plea to buy tickets for others. Ticking off statistics about the child sex trade — athat has surpassed the illegal trades in drugs and guns — he suggested that the film could do for child sex trafficking what Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” did for slavery.
Marshaling the forces of good to combat evil isn’t the worst incentive for a movie. But this one’s message should stand without the claptrap from the Q-man . Thompson famously said, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro,” and “it never got weird enough for me.” He should have stuck around.
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