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Speaker 1: Bread the Flick with Ben Oshe on ninety six m.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Ben, Good morning guys. I'm really curious about

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Speaker 2: this movie Sound of Freedom. Yeah, like curiosity, I think

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Speaker 2: is the best word to describe how people are feeling

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Speaker 2: about this here in Australia, because for the last few

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Speaker 2: months we've been hearing about this indie movie over in

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Speaker 2: America that has been so successful. Everybody's talking about it.

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Speaker 2: Sounds of Freedom, like to give you an idea of

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Speaker 2: just how bizarre the situation is. So, this is a

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Speaker 2: movie made on virtually zero budget by an independent studio,

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Speaker 2: a studio called Angel Studios, run by a couple of

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Speaker 2: Mormon dudes, and they make faith based programming anyway, and

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Speaker 2: so and so sorry this film with no budget. And

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Speaker 2: Jim Cavizl who's you know, probably most know jes Jesus

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Speaker 2: playing Jesus in the Passion of the Christ. So he's

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Speaker 2: not exactly a big box office draw card. But the

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Speaker 2: movie has made more money in America than the latest

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Speaker 2: Fast and the Furious movie, Indiana Jones in the Dial

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Speaker 2: of Destiny and Mission Impossible. So he's made more money

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Speaker 2: than all of those movies, like about one hundred and

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Speaker 2: nearly one hundred and eighty million US, and you have

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Speaker 2: to us a question why, like why has it been

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Speaker 2: to is the movie so good? Like I can spoiler

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Speaker 2: alert it's not good. The movie is boring.

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Speaker 1: It's extremely selling a lot of tickets in the Bible Belt.

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Speaker 2: But based on a real story, is based on a

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Speaker 2: story that is purportedly true. There are some doubts about

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Speaker 2: how true the story that inspired this film is. It's

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Speaker 2: based on this guy, Tim Ballard, who started this organization

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Speaker 2: called Operation Underground Railroad, which deals with human trafficking. It

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Speaker 2: tries to raise awareness around the issue but also take action,

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Speaker 2: tries to rescue children and other people from human traffickers

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Speaker 2: and see the perpetrators arrested. And the organization claims that

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Speaker 2: it's rescued four thousand people from human traffickers, but there's

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Speaker 2: some doubt about how valid those numbers are. And the

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Speaker 2: film sees Jim Cavizil play Tim Ballard and he goes

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Speaker 2: to Columbia and stages this elaborate sting operation to rescue

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Speaker 2: dozens of kids from human traffickers, which apparently was a

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Speaker 2: real thing that happened. Some doubt about how true that is.

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Speaker 1: But when taken to Columbia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well because all these kids are being like

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Speaker 2: kidnapped from their parents in South America, South American kids, right,

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Speaker 2: And the film really kind of pitches this idea that

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Speaker 2: that child trafficking is this massive problem. It's worth more

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Speaker 2: than the illegal drug trade, and kids are being kidnapped

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Speaker 2: all the time and being sold into slavery. Basically that's

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Speaker 2: the vibe of the film. And this guy, Tim Ballard,

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Speaker 2: was appointed by Donald Trump when he was president as

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Speaker 2: an advisor to you know, sort of the Human Rights Council.

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Speaker 2: And so Tim Ballard, the guy the film is based

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Speaker 2: there is a Trump Trump guy, right, He's a Trump guy.

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Speaker 2: And so Trump has been backing this film from the

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Speaker 2: start in America, held screenings with it at his i

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Speaker 2: think in his pool house and mar Lago. Maybe maybe

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Speaker 2: there's some documents you have to move out of the

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Speaker 2: way and so and so the film has been has

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Speaker 2: been extremely popular with conservatives in America because it's got

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Speaker 2: Trump's seal of approval. It's been backed by you know,

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Speaker 2: the Fox News is and then your old right kind

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Speaker 2: of stuff like Steve Bannon, you know, that guy has

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Speaker 2: been on board. But it's also been embraced by QAnon,

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Speaker 2: and so QAnon for people who don't really know, a

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Speaker 2: sort of a conspiracy theory group, and they believe in

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Speaker 2: all of these really wacky conspiracies like the Democrats in

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Speaker 2: America and the rich liberal elite, like trying to harvest

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Speaker 2: adrenal glands from children because it really and and they

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Speaker 2: hide kids in the basement Domino restaurant. It's just it's

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Speaker 2: just super super weird stuff. And so these QAnon people

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Speaker 2: have backed this film as well. And part of the

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Speaker 2: reason is because Jim Cavizel the start of the film,

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Speaker 2: it's kind of he kind of it gets into q

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Speaker 2: conspiracy like he's he's he's kind of he's kind of

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Speaker 2: pandered to these ideas of these adrenal gland harvesting conspiracy

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Speaker 2: theories on podcasts and at anti COVID conferences and all

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Speaker 2: this kind of stuff. So there's there's some stuff around

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Speaker 2: this film. There's really kind of a bit weird, not

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Speaker 2: not kind of okay. The director, Alejandro Monteverde says, no, no,

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Speaker 2: there's nothing to do with QAnon. I wrote this film

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Speaker 2: before Q and On was even popular. But it's about

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Speaker 2: Tim Ballard and Tim Ballard kind of inspired Q and On.

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Speaker 2: So the links are kind of pretty hard to ignore,

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Speaker 2: but it does I don't want to go down, but

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Speaker 2: it doesn't change the fact that the film is just

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Speaker 2: not that good. It's boring. It's like midday mid day

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Speaker 2: movie quality. And as far as the box office success

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Speaker 2: in America, they've had this weird thing where people can

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Speaker 2: buy tickets and leave it at the box office for

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Speaker 2: people who can't afford to go, and so media outlets

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Speaker 2: have been reporting that sold out sessions have actually been empty,

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Speaker 2: and so there's maybe some weirdness going on at the

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Speaker 2: box office there too. And it also kind of misrepresents

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Speaker 2: the realities of child trafficking. It makes out that it's

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Speaker 2: much more prevalent than it actually is, which is a

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Speaker 2: Q and on thing, and also makes out that the

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Speaker 2: main issue that's driving child trafficking is the idea that

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Speaker 2: the kids being kidnapped forcibly by strangers, which is a

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Speaker 2: Q and on thing, But it's not reality. Like all

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Speaker 2: of the experts, like the United Nations say, most child

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Speaker 2: trafficking happens because of people that.

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Speaker 1: The kids know.

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Speaker 2: They're the ones who sell the kids into slavery, which

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Speaker 2: is terrible. It's terribly sad. It's much harvesting of the adrenaline,

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Speaker 2: you know, nothing to do with that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: And the studio behind the film has had to come

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Speaker 2: out recently and say, look, we maybe we did kind

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Speaker 2: of fictionalize some aspects of child trafficking and so, but

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Speaker 2: why though it's fostering the fear, isn't it. Yes, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of weirdness around this film. I

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Speaker 2: can see why it did so in America because you

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Speaker 2: know that all of these conservative figures backed it. Here

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Speaker 2: in Australia, I'll be fascinated to see how it does

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Speaker 2: because we don't have the same kind of political climate.

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Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, it's just not

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Speaker 2: a very good.

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Speaker 1: Especially if it's two and a half hours and it's board.

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Speaker 1: It's an ideal. How many doodle giving it? I'm going

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Speaker 1: to give it one one look after your dream. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for warning me off it. Thank you, my guys,