In a long blog post about the film, Angel Studios acknowledged some elements are fictionalized and said the film takes "creative liberties in depicting the different methods of child trafficking."Ĭampbell worries the picture of trafficking and how to address it presented by Operation Underground Railroad and, by extension, Sound of Freedom, diverts people's attention, resources and policy proposals away from where they're most needed. Some trafficking involves kidnapping by strangers, as depicted in Sound of Freedom, but often it's committed by people close to the victim who exploit trust, she said. She said trafficking takes many forms, including forced labor, which is often under-reported, and affects victims of a wide range of ages.
"By doing that, I think we make actual victims of human trafficking more invisible and more vulnerable to exploitation." "Because trafficking is so varied and does span so many populations, it really tests our brain to not, not distill it down to some sort of 'this is what a common victim of human trafficking looks like,'" said Elizabeth Campbell, co-director of the University of Michigan's Human Trafficking Clinic. These popular depictions raise concerns among anti-trafficking experts, who say they offer an incomplete portrait of a real and urgent problem. On screen, Sound of Freedom goes even further in fictionalizing Ballard's story, showing him single-handedly taking on a crime syndicate in Colombia. Untangling Disinformation How documentary-style films turn conspiracy theories into a call to action Operation Underground Railroad has denied Vice's findings. "They're not whole cloth falsehoods, but they reassemble things that are true or close to being true into stories that are just wildly and completely different from what actually happened," Marchman said. Many of the missions Operation Underground Railroad describes are hard to verify or contain significant misrepresentations, according to extensive reporting by Tim Marchman and Anna Merlan of Vice News. In addition to the controversies around QAnon, the rescue story told in Sound of Freedom has also become a lightning rod. "New to Q? With the 'Sound of Freedom' movie dominating the box office and giving Hollywood seizures, we have a lot of new eyes on us!" read the title of one popular thread on a QAnon website last week. Indeed, QAnon adherents have eagerly anticipated its release and greeted the film as a way to bring new believers into the fold.
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