Jim Caviezel in promotion of Sound of Freedom told in interview that Disney wanted to remove line “God will give me justice” in 2002 adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo in which an actor performed lead starring role, because they didn’t like that phrase. Caviezel retorted that saying from a book and it defines character. He promised to leave production if phrase will cross out. Disney conceded. I’m not a Christian and have own spiritual view, but I flabbergasted in story with Count of Monte Cristo and big studios’ direct disgust to Christians. Jim Caviezel stopped to get roles from all these film companies after playing in independently produced The Passion of the Christ. However, it brought to playing in likeable for him projects. It became to the best to him. Because highly popular actor for stay on that ground can only participate in twelve-digit number projects filled of CGI where he/she only does monkey business on green screen with no requirements of acting abilities whereas box-office fallen actors involved in VOD films, which screenplay has same commodity sense, but made for few million dollars. That’s two hells. Caviezel’s sacrifice brought to evasion of both of them.
I came to watching interest and dropped then by thinking Sound of Freedom will have a guessable and usual screenplay. It was two times. I would spend money in theater, but mostly that was because I wasn’t in cinema for almost four years to that moment. However, I hadn’t such opportunity anyway. I returned to flick at the third time. Learning more then as it was clicking through scenes revealed that movie has a wonderful storytelling what made firm to see in pleasant quality.
Sound of Freedom showed that Alejandro Monteverde isn’t one more unnoticeable man in director’s chair. It was treasure discovery to know that new ingenious stagemaker exists among today’s greyness of cinema. He is a true director who can tell through facial expressions of spectacular cast in which many unknown actors had a grandiose opportunity to show talent whereas big impression in genuineness of profound performance I’ve got from children about whom and hideous trafficking of them Sound of Freedom is. This story of real person Tim Ballard who resigned from Homeland Security and devoted to world operations of saving kids from slavery. Monteverde is incredible in handling with focusing of camera and wondrous in using light in color flick. He makes to get all pain and disgust of children trafficking where he doesn’t regret in gruesome scenes, which, as a great filmmaker, he can show without their direct demonstration. This movie induces to do something about that. I watched with abysmal on pedophiles and people involved in trafficking operations. I wouldn’t be calm if I would in one room and I would had an opportunity on these humans.
Music theme in a cappella, which makes as part of story, keeps in memory for long. It wasn’t meaningful for me at first hearing, but further playing with narrating story penetrated every time.
Mentioning as fact that more slavery today than in past is obvious, but filmmakers don’t say about population difference. Obvious, the story was a little bit dramatized with sneaking on dangerous territory and took small standards in that place and drinking whisky in ex-cartel’s member telling of touchable story about his past was exaggerating act. All these things don’t make worst for the film though it wouldn’t be greater to not use them.
