IMAX is certainly an immersive experience.

If I was to go to a current release, your recommendation would be a good one…

Not all of us live close enough to make IMAX an entertainment option.

I must respect that. I had to travel to Knoxville to see it in IMAX. Everyone has to have their own priorities.

In IMAX it is very loud which is a narrative decision. I would not drive to GA just to see the film in IMAX, but I might combine that w something else.

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Originally posted by Steve Ahrenberg:

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Originally posted by JudgeG:
How many of the above comments are based on seeing the movie? Pro or con?

Doesn't matter. The good/bad decision is based on partisan politics. If it makes their guy, party or position look bad, the movie was not made in good faith.

Q anon is their boogey man.

Tell us which QAnon theories/philosophies are the good ones so we can keep an eye out.

The fact so many here do not want to engage in the subject matter of the film is astounding to me.

I do not think one can separate the film from the leading actor and public face of the film’s position on why children are being human trafficked. I had a judge tell me children being sex trafficked/used in child pornography was a victimless crime.

As I provided earlier in this thread, the lead of the film believes the Alt Right conspiracy that children are being so trafficked for extracting a not real substance for works elites to use for health.

I am fine and agree we need a discussion on human trafficking. However, that discussion backdropped to the QAnon/adrenochrome used on to market the film post production is not a serious conversation.

The "subject matter" of this movie is not just about the victim children. It also includes the whole thing, including the actors, director, funding, target audience, the narratives or script, the messages, etc.

This is not a documentary.

It's a story, a drama, an emotional tearjerker, partly fictionalized, embellished, partly based on real events.

One of the sub-themes is the savior syndrome, or maybe righteous vigilante. Thus the focus is much on the adults. After all, it's target is supposedly adults.

If the subject matter of the children was the prime focus, there are several real documentaries available. So, in comparison, why is this movie a financial standout, and real documentaries not?

https://www.humanrightscareers...ou-can-watch-online/

9 Human Trafficking Documentaries You Can Watch Online

https://fighttoendexploitation...fficking-in-america/

5 Free Documentaries that Teach Us about Sex Trafficking in America
POSTED IN:
HUMAN TRAFFICKING 101

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13140978/

Silent Cry: The Darker Side of Trafficking

https://humantraffickingsearch...de-full-documentary/

And more

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Originally posted by Magine Enigam:

This is not a documentary.

It's a story, a drama, an emotional tearjerker, partly fictionalized, embellished, partly based on real events.

One of the sub-themes is the savior syndrome, or maybe righteous vigilante. Thus the focus is much on the adults. After all, it's target is supposedly adults.

If the subject matter of the children was the prime focus, there are several real documentaries available. So, in comparison, why is this movie a financial standout, and real documentaries not?

The film makers could have made another documentary to throw onto the pile, but they decided that a feature length drama would gather a larger audience.

Well done dramas are money makers.

Documentaries rarely turn much of a profit.

So are we to be surprised that a drama about child trafficking is making more money than any of the numerous documentaries about child trafficking?

Those seem like simple irrefutable facts, not the basis for a conspiracy theory.

Ironic that you call the media reporting and assessments of a screening and associated facts and success of a movie a conspiracy theory.

People like Trump, Lake, Bannon, etc., etc., don't waste their time on stuff unless there's a conspiracy involved.

The prime and targeted audience don't waste their time unless there's the White Savior, rogue vigilante superhero, Magical thinking, righteousness, feel good premise, and above all belief in and affirmation of conspiracy theories.

So, you call assessing and pondering something that attracts a group of people who actually conspire and actually plan and participate in conspiracies, and the attraction of people who are conspiracy theory believers a conspiracy theory?

That's a good one, JBrown. That's flipping the narrative - you know.



https://www.forbes.com/sites/c...dom/?sh=727b743e6dcb

Here Are The Right-Wing Figures—From Donald Trump To Steve Bannon—Championing Surprise Hit ‘Sound Of Freedom’
Conor Murray
Forbes Staff

https://www.theguardian.com/us...ia%20in%20Washington.

Trump hosts screening of Sound of Freedom, a hit with QAnon devotees
Ex-president holds golf club screening of child sex trafficking film, with Steve Bannon, Kari Lake and Jack Posobiec in attendance. Also Hannity.

https://www.newsweek.com/2023/...llywood-1815299.html

Sounds ok to me.

"Jesus isn't trademarked, so the material can be held up by all types of entertainers."

I'm confident Trump wastes his time on many things!

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Originally posted by theback40:
I'm confident Trump wastes his time on many things!

Primarily conspiracies and conspiracy theories and how to exploit.

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Originally posted by theback40:
I'm confident Trump wastes his time on many things!

+1

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Originally posted by Magine Enigam:
Ironic that you call the media reporting and assessments of a screening and associated facts and success of a movie a conspiracy theory.

People like Trump, Lake, Bannon, etc., etc., don't waste their time on stuff unless there's a conspiracy involved.

The prime and targeted audience don't waste their time unless there's the White Savior, rogue vigilante superhero, Magical thinking, righteousness, feel good premise, and above all belief in and affirmation of conspiracy theories.

So, you call assessing and pondering something that attracts a group of people who actually conspire and actually plan and participate in conspiracies, and the attraction of people who are conspiracy theory believers a conspiracy theory?

That's a good one, JBrown. That's flipping the narrative - you know.



https://www.forbes.com/sites/c...dom/?sh=727b743e6dcb

Here Are The Right-Wing Figures—From Donald Trump To Steve Bannon—Championing Surprise Hit ‘Sound Of Freedom’
Conor Murray
Forbes Staff

https://www.theguardian.com/us...ia%20in%20Washington.

Trump hosts screening of Sound of Freedom, a hit with QAnon devotees
Ex-president holds golf club screening of child sex trafficking film, with Steve Bannon, Kari Lake and Jack Posobiec in attendance. Also Hannity.

Are you so deep into this “theory of conspiracy” of yours that you truly can’t see it for what it is? Maybe you don’t believe that there is a possibility that you could be mistaken?

Could “assessing and pondering” be called “theorizing”?

BTW, remind me again, what is the difference between a theory and a fact…

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Could “assessing and pondering” be called “theorizing”?

BTW, remind me again, what is the difference between a theory and a fact…

The difference between theorizing and pondering is the first is speculating, the second is asking an open question.

The two could be conflated if one has difficulty with assimilating facts, which is how conspiracy theories are fomented.

Here's a recent article delving into my point:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...7194a61a304acf&ei=46

The War on Barack Obama and Democrats Is Getting Dangerous
Story by Stephen Silver • 8m ago

I actually went and saw the movie, and found it to be reasonably well done. The subject matter is disturbing but the portrayal was tastefully done, at least to the extent it could be.
The backlash from the left is puzzling, to me. I don't care for the politics of the lead actor but he is simply an actor. The promotion of the film struggles to link abortion to child trafficking; I think this is regrettable and detracts from the film message.
In general, I view movies as entertainment. Some are very good, some not so much. This particular one, as a movie, was decent but not exceptional, IMO. Regards, Bill