Movie Review
Ending the Silence

Vol. 39, No. 14

07/31/2023

Ending the Silence

Released by Angel Studios, the independent film Sound of Freedom could be the catalyst for exposing the evil child sex industry and rescuing the children. ...

Annalisa Pesek

In Calexico, California, in a dimly lit room, a thin, pale-faced man sips coffee and hunches over his computer keyboard. Thick bands of cigarette smoke waft above his head. On the screen flash photographs and videos of children as young as five and six years old. Some pose seductively for the camera, their shirts unbuttoned to expose their youthful skin, their innocent mouths smeared with cherry-red lipstick. 

“Here it is gentlemen — my spring sampler,” types the pedophile, uploading dozens of pornographic photos that he sends to paying customers around the world.  

The scene is so shocking and so painful that viewers will want to look away. And that is certainly the point of filmmakers Rod Barr (Is That You?) and Alejandro Monteverde’s (Bella, Little Boy) gripping new drama, Sound of Freedom. For too long, we have looked away in silence. Child sex trafficking is too ugly to face. 

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