How to watch Sound of Freedom in New Zealand
The most controversial film of the year is coming soon, for whatever it’s worth.
Directed by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde, starring Jim Caviezel and Mira Sorvino, and heartily endorsed by a visibly drunk Mel Gibson, Sound of Freedom loosely adapts the life and work of Tim Ballard, founder of a controversial anti-sex-trafficking organisatin.
The film arrives in New Zealand when it opens in cinemas on August 24.
In a heavily fictionalised version of events, former Jesus Caviezel plays Ballard, a Homeland Security agent who takes matters into his own hands in order to rescue kidnapped children from a Colombian sex-trafficking ring.
Sorvino, who once won an Oscar, is his deathlessly supportive wife, Katherine, while character actor Bill Camp is Vampiro, a cartel accountant turned anti-trafficking operative.
Operation Underground Railroad itself maintains the film “exaggerated or fabricated elements included for dramatic purposes” and reputable anti-trafficking crusaders say it’s deceptive storytelling is making their jobs harder. It’s in cinemas soon…use that info as you see fit.
