CHILD RESCUER VS. INDIANA JONES. “The Passion of the Christ” actor Jim Caviezel plays a child rescuer in “Sound of Freedom.” At its premiere on July 4th it beat the fifth “Indiana Jones” film to reach #1 in box offices. Mexican actor Eduardo Verastegui produced the film and has devoted his life to saving kids. So has the man on whom he based the film, Tim Ballard, founder of Operation Underground Railroad.
The film follows Ballard’s journey into Latin American sex trafficking rings that ensnare children. He seeks to reunite a family which has lost both children to such predatory networks. Specifically, Mexico “ranks first in child sexual abuse; first in exploitation, homicides, and trafficking of minors; and first in creation and distribution of child pornography,” according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development And the US has become consumer number #1 of sex worldwide, including child porn.
Crowdfunding against child corruption
Of course the movie does not show graphic porn, though it does have some violence and foul language. Verastegui wants teens to see it with parents and take warning about the evils of the world. Like “The Chosen” series, the film benefited from Angel Studio’s crowdfunding strategies. The studio provides for anyone to pay for a ticket for someone else who may not otherwise see the film.
We need films like this showing people delivering kids from evil instead of delivering kids into evil. The studio hopes 2 million people would attend to represent the 2 million kids caught in sex trafficking. Since it earned $14 million on opening night alone, it may have passed that goal already. Pray that more than 2 million spread this warning, and that countless traffickers be stopped in their tracks.
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Photo: Thibault from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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