its rare i pick to go & see a film ive never seen a trailer for unless its secret cinema, but thats what im doing today. Sound of Freedom is the perfect excuse. A quick online synopsis is all ive read on letterboxd & IMDB & im going in blind, so im hoping to be like oooh damn watching this.

Screen 5 for the 5pm showing on a thursday. In a screen with aircon happy days. Nope it was moved to screen 2, interesting i wonder why. & then in the people started walking & they kept coming & i was like really. For a thursday too. People just kept walking into the screening, was i in the right place, yes i was.

Trailers for today viewing were for past lives (always weird when you see an advanced preview youve seen being advertised) Napoleon (first time ive seen that trailer on the big screen it looked insane) & killers of the flower moon. That was it there was also a lack of advert so the film started 15min after the advertised start which was impressive.

& then the film started… oh wow… i was not expecting that at all bloody hell. That was intense & stressful.

It was very thought provoking & act 1 & 2 were so so so good. Act 3 did feel a little bit generic. I understand why they did it, but after such a deep through provoking & horrible act 1 & 2 which really made you think, for the end to be a standard act 3, it insulted the rest of the film a little bit. I wanted it to be more. When you watch the film that will make complete sense.
But yea there is a moment near the end of act 2 where they have proved how evil these people are & saved others & the ultimate goal of the mission to just get a certain person ultimately fails, & its heart breaking. Maybe it could have ended there.

I loved the mirror images of the start & the end i was not expecting that. It does just show that after all the horrors & bad things in the world, life for people does just go one & doesnt actually change.

Now i didnt know until the end of the film that this was actually a true story which then did make me go oh if he did do all of that, it doe make sense ending it that way. But that in itself is mad that it did happen. & then it said as the credits rolled that the film has a message. The message was that this film was made nearly 5 years ago & then it was shelved because no one wanted to show it & then covid happen & its been crowdfunded to get to the cinema & that by talking about the film means you are the advertising for a film. They then gave out a website to gift a ticket to people. That was amazing.

Also at the end of the film it told us that there are more people in slavery today then there were back when slavery was legal. THAT IS FUCKING WRONG! ITS 2023! this should not be the case. how do people sleep at night when they own slaves of any sort? bastards.

I really wanted to punch some of the traffickers & abusers in the face from this film. I mean how could they take those kids & abuse them & then sell them & then exploit them. How evil are they.

Im actually glad we didnt see anything too graphic. I think it was scarier to see the trauma & nothing happen which was good. Yes there was some violence & abuse, but it could have been much much much worse.

It did drag on in act 3 im afraid to say, maybe it was due to it being generic, but i was sitting there going are we done yet.

Its hard to recommend a film like this if im honest, but i think some of you will be shocked & go oh fuck at a lot of this. Its worth a watch to understand the horrors that some of these people go through. Id say its worth the horrors & the meh act 3 to watch the rest of it.