Maszaba Carter

Sound of Freedom I went into this with little to no background information. I only had a recommendation from a coworker. This coworker knew the type of content I usually watched and thought this film would fall in line. Boy was he wrong! The subject matter is something that absolutely needs attention, but glamorizing this type of atrocity is the absolute wrong direction. Further, other films have handled the delicate task of pedophilia with much more dignified and delicate hands, an example is Message from the King. Sound of Freedom, is written in a trite and predictable manner. This ham-handed writing renders what should have been a story of survival against the odds and ultimately reconciliation into camp. Even its reaching into the seedy underworld of human trafficking is done with little more than paint by numbers consideration. There are a multitude of moments within the script and plot that are supposed to be touching and pinnacle but barely reach the balconies of the buildings they are shot from. There is no mention of the aftereffects of the atrocities on the mental wellbeing of the affected, nor any care given to the members of the audience who are effected. The story is linear and unimaginative, and the care toward the victims romanticized behind crocodile tears from the lead actor. I needed a shower after watching this mostly because I felt touched by the subject and smeared by the garbage flung from the production.