Brian Emmanuel Grey

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The Sound Of Freedom delivers, but like Joaquin Phoenix's similar fictional installment, "You Were Never Really Here", it is not for the faint of heart. I was surprised that only three seats at the front were left on a Tuesday morning, at the 11:45 am showing in Regina Saskatchewan! It was the 4th of July which is a normal business day here. I went because the theatre was beside my hair place that usually allows me to walk in and get a cut right away. They told me they were booked, but that they could fit me in at 4pm, so I went to Costco to get gas, then a coffee and thought. "Hey, I'll check out the new Landmark theatre". I asked the young guy at the gate what movie he would suggest and he said that The Sound Of Freedom had already almost sold out, so he had me choose one of the three remaining seats off of a screen and I was in. The truth is that I had just seen the latest Fast And Furious elsewhere and with other previous lame duck movies, I was about to give up on going to Theatres. The Sound Of Freedom delivers, but like Joaquin Phoenix's, "You Were Never Really Here", it is not for the faint of heart. I am glad that someone somewhere is saying "No" to the kidnapping and abuse of children. When my son was 5, he disappeared from sight in a crowded mall in San Francisco, I had stayed in the coffee shop while the rest went shopping. By the time my oldest daughter came and told me that my little son was missing, she was already on the verge of a nervous breakdown, it was all I could do to not join her and the rest of the panicked family in their despairing meltdown. The movie and the writing of this, was and is, a catharsis of that time. The movie helped me quietly in the dark of the theatre feel the terror and weep the tears I could not back then. We found him after about 20 minutes of all out searching, I never aged faster than I did in those 20 minutes.