"God's children are not for sale": 'Sound of Freedom' with Jim Caviezel hits screens

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Whatever/not your 'god', the sentiment behind the phrase "God's children are not for sale" will strike a chord with most of us. It's a key one in this trailer for the child trafficking thriller 'Sound of Freedom'. What do you think of the trailer? Does it inspire you to get tickets and go to see the movie or are you leery of it? As explained by community/crowdfunding filmmakers Angel Studios - which bought the rights after Disney reportedly canned the film - "'Sound of Freedom' is a true story film that exposes the darkness of child trafficking. A federal agent saves a boy from traffickers, but his sister is still captive. He embarks on a dangerous mission, risking his life to free her". The film stars Jim Caviezel ('The Passion of the Christ', 'The Count of Monte Cristo') who plays the lead role of Tim Ballard. Academy Award Winner Mira Sorvino ('Mighty Aphrodite') plays Katherine Ballard and Bill Camp ('Lincoln', '12 Years a Slave') plays Ballard’s right-hand man 'Vampiro'. The issue of child trafficking is naturally an emotionally charged one, and the film is attracting attention from various conflicting quarters. Some take issue with statements by Caviezel regarding children and the LGBTQ+ movement, or the importance of national borders ('Sound of Freedom' takes place in the USA and Colombia); many regard the film as one that should be not just released but actively promoted by a major studio such as Disney to achieve maximum exposure; others question a delivery which looks similar to a regular 'US good guys / heroes' format; others still point to the underlying issue being demand rather than supply. Notes accompanying a previous film, 'The Abolitionists' include an explanation by Tim Ballard about Operation Underground Railroad, which he co-founded and which works to rescue trafficked children. "First, jump team members will go out and about in the types of places that traffickers market their sex slaves. The jump team members act as either sex traffickers looking to buy little boys and girls to sell to others or as sex tourists looking to have sex with little boys and girls. It's only a matter of time before traffickers come offering drugs, adult prostitutes, and eventually trafficked children. Jump team members arrange to have a sex party asking the traffickers to bring as many child sex slaves as possible. Before the party, the team rents a house where such a sex party can take place. They wire the house with hidden cameras and audio recordings to capture evidence of the traffickers selling these children. They also attach wires and microphones to themselves to make sure that enough evidence to put the traffickers away so that they can't traffick any more children". Does the 'Sound of Freedom' trailer inform and/or inspire you about an area - Trafficking in People (TIP) - which is hard to quantify but is generally regarded as a major issue that's on the increase across the world? Trafficking is used to provide cheap labour, sex slaves, and, less commonly, bodily organs.

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