Type the words “sound of freedom” into Twitter (decent people who wish to live good, happy lives should under no circumstances actually do this) and the search will yield dozens of triumphant reports crowing about the improbable victory of a film by that title over the likes of Indiana Jones at the box office this week.
That’s not, strictly speaking, accurate – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny had already been out for five days, the first three of which out-earned Sound of Freedom’s opening-day take, when the new independent thriller came to theaters on Tuesday. But for a fleeting moment this past Fourth of July, while the intended audience of Indy’s latest outing was presumably spending time with their families and friends at barbecues or in other social situations, an unoccupied fandom rallied by the star Jim Caviezel claimed the day with a $14.2m gross versus Dial of Destiny’s $11.7m. No matter that these figures require selective, almost willfully misleading framing to allow for the David-and-Goliath narrative trumpeted by supporters; as the copious tweets accusing Disney of being in cahoots with a global cabal of high-power p-dophiles make clear, the truth doesn’t have too much purchase around these parts.
However one chooses to slice it, Sound of Freedom has over-delivered on expectations in dollars and cents, a feat of profitability uncommon for a comparatively low-budget production without a major Hollywood-led promotional campaign. Judging by the robust round of applause that concluded the fully-seated screening I attended on Wednesday evening – and this, in the liberal Sodom of Manhattan! – it would seem that the folks at the two-year-old Angel Studios have tapped into a substantial and eagerly marshaled viewership.
Following that money leads back to a more unsavory network of astroturfed boosterism among the far-right fringe, a constellation of paranoids now attempting to spin a cause célèbre out of a movie with vaguely simpatico leanings. The uninitiated may not pick up on the red-yarn-and-corkboard subtext pinned onto a mostly straightforward extraction mission in South America, pretty much Taken with a faint whiff of something noxious in the air. Those tuned in to the eardrum-perforating frequency of QAnon, however, have heeded a clarion call that leads right to the multiplex.
someone tell me if it's worth watching or not
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sometimes they make it too easy
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I enjoyed it. It was a solid thriller without any political agenda, except for saying child trafficking is bad. Would recommend 10/10
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No one talked about a secret p-do cabal, Pizzagate bullshit stopped being spammed after Epstein weirdly
And you'd expect a proper report about these shadow alt-right groups, instead you just get a "Dude trust me" statement
This movie talks about saving children from trafficking therefore it supports Q- conspiracies?
Also any proof that these groups are really "astroturfed"?
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@Fabrico's response too anyone claiming something is astroturfed is too always ask, by who?
Does this moron really think this movie had the marketing budget for shills?
Vaccines work
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STEVE BANNON WHO IS FUNDED BY RUSSIA WHO IS LED BY THE GLOBAL CHRISTOFASCIST PATRIARCHY
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Vaccines work much better than journ*lists.
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Liberals mad about movie saving children from s*x trafficking
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I knew the box office was fake and straight just from the sheer amount of shillposting. Movie looks fine though
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Snapshots:
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