This film likely would have gone by completely unnoticed by me because outside of just mindlessly scrolling through Netflix and watching random crap I don't really go out of my way to see anything that is released these days. I did go and see Maverick in theaters because Top Gun was such a huge part of my childhood but other than that I haven't been to cinemas for than a couple of times in the past decade.
Once I saw that the usual media outlets like CNN and the Washington Post were attacking this movie for being QAnon conspiracy theory, I dug a bit deeper into it and now I am likely going to go and see it for no other reason than to help let CNN et. al. that their opinion has the opposite effect on people that they might hope.
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The film is about child trafficking and how that is really bad. It follows a US agent that travels the world rescuing children from this terrible ring of criminals so I found it just as alarming as anyone else that the media would go out of their way to attempt to suggest that something like this either doesn't exist or isn't bad. They didn't use those words but I was curious as to why major networks and news outlets would do something like this. As it turns out the film was promoted and funded by Christian and other conservative groups so I think the media's decision to go after this film was based on that alone, rather than the actual substance of the film. That is what I have been reading anyway and it isn't much a surprise. I can't really understand why it is that a network would target anything Christian and attempt to smear it, but in this case their attempts have backfired badly.
Now hundreds of thousands if not millions of people like me who otherwise wouldn't ever have even heard of this movie are flocking out to see it. Apparently the movie is pretty good as well and not just some sort of Christian propaganda, which is something I also do not like to see in movies. From what I have read the film isn't really "selling" you anything nor is it trying to convert anyone to Christianity, it is simply exposing the horrors of child human trafficking and honestly, why would anyone have a problem with exposing that?
The left vs. right thing is basically out of control in USA and I'm just happy that I don't live in a State that has many of those battles going on. We are a 50/50 mix here in North Carolina for the most part and while my area is predominantly conservative, it's not like we are at war with the liberals that live here.
Even though that battle really does exist in most of the USA, why on Earth can we not come together on something here and there, something that we can all agree on regardless of the side of the political fence that we sit on, something like, i dunno, that kidnapping children and selling them into slavery is a BAD thing?
The film cost around $15 million to make and already has topped $50 million at the box office. I'll be giving them $12 more in the next few days just to help stick it to the powers that be. I am seriously alarmed at the great lengths that the media will go to in their tribal warfare. This is just ridiculous.
Have you seen it? Is it worth seeing? I'm not really a movie theater guy so I might just stream it at some point but is the controversy really worth it? The conspiracy theorist in me also thinks that the controversy might have actually been initiated by the film's creators. It was free publicity after all.