Sound of Freedom is already selling more tickets than many people thought it would in the U.S., and it is taking over the box office. In fact, this movie’s original name, “Sound of Freedom,” brought in $14 million on the day it opened, making it more popular than movies from big studios like “Indiana Jones 5”, “Spider-Man”, “Transformers”, and “Elemental”.
People from all over the world have watched the movie for many different reasons. One of them is that the plot is complicated and hard to understand because it is about the world of child exploitation, which, according to the same film, “already exceeds illegal arms trafficking and will soon exceed drug trafficking because only one bag of cocaine can be sold at a time, but a child can be sold five to ten times a day.” That’s how serious and intense this story of slander and crime is. It wants to bring attention to the huge problem of trafficking in minors, which happens all over the world and is generally set up through secret networks on the Internet.
What is the story of Sound of Freedom?
Sound of Freedom is about the life of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent who quits his job to go into the underworld of human trafficking to save the lives of children who are being punished for crimes.
Sound of Freedom (Based on true story)
- Release Date: 4 Jul 2023
- Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller
- Language(s): English
- Director(s): Alejandro Monteverde
- Cast(s): Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp, Kurt Fuller, Gerardo
- Duration: 2h 15min
- Music: Javier Navarrete
- Similar To: The Pope’s Exorcist, Evil Dead Rise
This is set against the growing popularity and access to child trafficking networks around the world. His dedication to the case turns into an obsession, because he wants to do more than just catch pedophiles, whose ways of attracting children are getting more complicated. He also wants to save boys and girls, which hasn’t been easy and for which he doesn’t get much help, since most people tell him to give up.
Sound of Freedom Crew and Cast
Jim Caviezel plays the lead role in Sound of Freedom. We’ve seen him in other time crime movies, like The Passion of the Christ in 2004 and the Person of Interest TV series from 2011 to 2016. Mira Sorvino (Powerful Aphrodite, 1995), Bill Camp (12 Years a Slave, 2013), Cristal Aparicio (Lost 2020), and Lucas vila are also in the film.
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Even though Sound of Freedom is an American movie, it was directed by a Mexican, Alejandro Gómez Monteverde, and created by another Mexican, Eduardo Verástegui, an actor and producer.
What we know so far about Sound of Freedom
Even though the movie hasn’t come out yet in Mexico and Latin America, Rotten Tomatoes, a site that reviews and criticizes movies and TV shows, has given it a score of 79%. The people has given it a perfect score of 100%.
Other interesting facts
The movie Sound of Freedom is based on real events, which makes its sad story even stronger. But on the production side, a lot of care was taken to make sure that this story was respectful of the real-life events it alluded to and the children who worked on set. Their families and acting teachers were always there to make sure the setting was safe.
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The producer said, “We took very good care of all the kids who acted. None of them knew what the movie was about, and they were always with their parents and acting teachers in a very comfortable setting.”
When is the Sound of Freedom release date
Sound of Freedom had its first showing in the U.S. on July 4, and it is set to open in Mexico and Latin America on August 31.
