Saturday, July 8, 2023

Sound of Freedom: the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America

The first rule of QAnon: you don't talk about QAnon where the normals can hear you. 

Caviezel has saved that for his promotional media appearances, such as a recent drop-in to Steve Bannon's show War Room on MyPillow proprietor Mike Lindell's streaming channel Lindell TV. In the course of their interview, he conveyed the severity of the situation by explaining that an enterprising salesperson would have to move 1,000 barrels of oil to match the sum they'd get for filling one barrel with the rendered corpses of the innocent. Elsewhere, he's parroted falsehoods about Pizzagate and other underground cells subsisting on human blood, all of it pointing back to a foundation of conspiratorial thought targeting the Jewish and transgender communities. 

These zestier strains of scaremongering are absent in the text itself, but they lurk in the shadows around a film outwardly non-insane enough to lure in the persuadable; the disappointingly un-juicy Sound of Freedom pretends to be a real movie, like a "pregnancy crisis center" masquerading as a bona fide health clinic. (Our hero Ballard, by the way, went on to found the paramilitary rescue squad Operation Underground Railroad, a group criticized as "arrogant, unethical, and illegal" by the authorities. But then, they would say that. They're in on it, this goes all the way to the top, etc.)

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