Summer at the movies is a time for big-budget blockbusters, but this year an independent drama with religious undertones is both competing with the likes of Indiana Jones and causing a political stir.

Sound of Freedom tells the story of a government agent who busts a child sexual abuse ring operating in Colombia.

The main character is based on Timothy Ballard, a former Department of Homeland Security agent who founded an anti-human trafficking organisation, Operation Underground Railroad (OUR).

He goes undercover, and some of the gritty action scenes in the Colombian jungle wouldn't look out of place in a more conventional Hollywood flick.

 

The review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes gives the movie a critic score of 77%.

But this is not a typical summer blockbuster. A string of conspiratorial comments by the leading actor Jim Caviezel and the movie's themes have turned the film into another culture war flashpoint.

 

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On 7/21/2023 at 8:12 AM, Social Media said:

The main character is based on Timothy Ballard

Looks like this chap is in a spot of bother.

 

He was a front-runner for Mitt Romney's Senate seat.

 

 

 

‘Sound of Freedom’ inspiration Tim Ballard resigned from child rescue group after misconduct reports

 

Tim Ballard, the anti-sex trafficking activist whose exploits inspired the blockbuster movie “Sound of Freedom,” was under investigation for allegedly coercing at least seven women to act like “wives” while on overseas missions when he resigned three months ago from the nonprofit child rescue group he founded, according to a news report published this week.

 

Ballard, a former Homeland Security agent who founded the Utah-based “Operation Underground Railroad” in 2013, denied the allegations laid out in a VICE News story that cited sources with direct knowledge of the organization.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/tim-ballard-resigned-operation-underground-railroad-reports-sexual-mis-rcna105835

 

 

'Sound of Freedom,' this summer's surprise blockbuster, is fronted by a QAnon supporter and financed by a man who defrauded Medicare

 

https://www.insider.com/sound-of-freedom-tim-ballard-qanon-medicare-fraud-2023-7

 

 

In rare public rebuke, LDS Church condemns Tim Ballard’s ‘morally unacceptable’ behavior

Utah-based faith says the anti-human trafficking activist, who may seek Mitt Romney’s Senate seat, “betrayed” his friendship with a senior apostle.

 

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/09/15/rare-public-rebuke-lds-church/

 

 

Unlikely = Factual 

Controversial = Factual, but Sheeple will have their fur uncomfortably ruffled