{"id":53377,"date":"2023-10-11T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53377"},"modified":"2023-10-13T18:47:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:47:01","slug":"sound-of-freedom-a-great-movie-you-must-see-to-help-abolish-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/11\/sound-of-freedom-a-great-movie-you-must-see-to-help-abolish-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"'Sound of Freedom', a great movie you must see to help abolish slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/22\/try-to-convince-or-let-yourself-be-carried-away-are-your-principles-as-solid-and-firm-as-you-think\/\">I told you here<\/a> that today the rejection of slavery is widespread. If someone asked us, today we would all be abolitionists.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/30\/the-creator-the-far-from-innocent-message-of-a-film-with-an-impressive-aesthetic\/\">'The Creator', the far from innocent message of a film with an impressive aesthetic<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/30\/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-is-it-worth-watching-the-fifth-film-in-this-saga\/\">'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny': is it worth watching the fifth film in this saga?<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>I admit that I cheated a little in that reflection. The trap is to assume <strong>the idea that slavery was abolished in the 19th century<\/strong>. However, for years I have known a terrible fact that many people ignore: <strong>right now there are more slaves in the world than at any other time in history<\/strong>, a fact that appears at the end of the film about the one I'm going to talk to you about today. <strong>And many of those slaves are children.<\/strong> After providing this information, how many will continue to consider themselves abolitionists? <strong>How many are willing to take on some challenge or sacrifice to end this scourge?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am making this reflection after watching <strong>\"Sound of Freedom\", an excellent film<\/strong> that arrived in Spanish cinemas this week. This feature film deals with an unpleasant topic: <strong>the trade in children for sexual purposes, a scourge that is increasing in our society<\/strong>. This film comes to Spain after having caused a surprise in its country of origin, the United States: <strong>it had a budget of 14 million dollars and has already raised 235 million<\/strong>. How is it possible for a film that addresses such an unpleasant topic to be so successful?<\/p>\n<p>To begin with, <strong>\"Sound of Freedom\" is a superhero movie<\/strong>, a genre that has been very successful in theaters for years. But unlike Marvel and DC movies, <strong>this movie is about real superheroes<\/strong>, about admirable people capable of making great sacrifices to free the most innocent from the clutches of evil people, of much worse people. than the worst villains in fiction movies. <strong>\"Sound of Freedom\" treads dark and sad terrain that no other superhero film has dared to try<\/strong>, and that is part of its greatness.<\/p>\n<p>But in addition to being well shot, having great photography and a good story, <strong>\"Sound of Freedom\" has something very necessary: a message of hope<\/strong>, the hope that J.R.R. Tolkien captured in the word \"Estel\", hope beyond all hope. <strong>Something that this society of haste, of the immediate and of passivity seems to have forgotten.<\/strong> The director of \"Sound of Freedom\", Alejandro Monteverde, has been able to tell a story that reaches deep of the soul and that <strong>encourages us to do something to improve the lives of others, specifically the most vulnerable and innocent<\/strong>, who are the children who fall into these horrifying networks.<\/p>\n<p>And what is that something? A great sacrifice is not asked of us. <strong>To do our part we just have to go to the cinema to see this film and bear witness to it.<\/strong> If many people did that, that perverse business that takes place in the dark, at the cost of destroying the lives of millions of children, would be exposed to light and <strong>society would become aware of the need to take measures to eradicate this slavery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest, <strong>Jim Caviezel plays an excellent leading role<\/strong>, with Bill Camp and Eduardo Ver\u00e1stegui accompanying him on this risky adventure. By the way, <strong> we are facing a true story, whose real protagonist is called Timothy Ballard<\/strong>, an agent of the US Department of Homeland Security who abandoned his work to rescue children from these sexual slavery networks . Anyway, I won't say more. <strong>I highly recommend going to see this movie at the cinema.<\/strong> For the price of a ticket you can do immense good by helping to transmit this story and bring hope and freedom to all those children. I leave you here with the trailer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sound of Freedom - Official Trailer (2023)\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rt0kp4VW1cI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By the way, <strong>I recommend not getting up when the credits start: there is a very important message at the end<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, if you wish, <strong>on this website you can pay for tickets so that people who cannot afford it can see it:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.angel.com\/pay-it-forward\/sound-of-freedom\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.angel.com\/pay-it-forward\/sound-of-freedom\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I told you here that today the rejection of slavery is widespread. 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