Sound of Freedom (2023)
Country: US/MEX
Technical: col/2.35:1 131m
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
Cast: Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp, Cristal Aparicio
Synopsis:
A U.S. law enforcement officer in child trafficking decides after a bust that putting users away is not enough any more, and he becomes drawn into a father's search for his son and daughter, snatched from Honduras to Colombia.
Review:
The Mexican connection is everything in production terms, since this is very much not a conventional thriller but a protracted drama that uses high-end cinematic means to tell a deeply felt personal story. The balance between distressing detail and upbeat outcomes is sensitively handled, and the acting is superb, especially from the younger cast members, with a developed use of close-ups and settings in the mise-en-scène. The whole is based on true events, as an epilogue makes clear, with helmet cam footage of the actual bust, and sobering statistics as to the extent of child slavery in the world.
Country: US/MEX
Technical: col/2.35:1 131m
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
Cast: Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp, Cristal Aparicio
Synopsis:
A U.S. law enforcement officer in child trafficking decides after a bust that putting users away is not enough any more, and he becomes drawn into a father's search for his son and daughter, snatched from Honduras to Colombia.
Review:
The Mexican connection is everything in production terms, since this is very much not a conventional thriller but a protracted drama that uses high-end cinematic means to tell a deeply felt personal story. The balance between distressing detail and upbeat outcomes is sensitively handled, and the acting is superb, especially from the younger cast members, with a developed use of close-ups and settings in the mise-en-scène. The whole is based on true events, as an epilogue makes clear, with helmet cam footage of the actual bust, and sobering statistics as to the extent of child slavery in the world.
Country: US/MEX
Technical: col/2.35:1 131m
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
Cast: Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp, Cristal Aparicio
Synopsis:
A U.S. law enforcement officer in child trafficking decides after a bust that putting users away is not enough any more, and he becomes drawn into a father's search for his son and daughter, snatched from Honduras to Colombia.
Review:
The Mexican connection is everything in production terms, since this is very much not a conventional thriller but a protracted drama that uses high-end cinematic means to tell a deeply felt personal story. The balance between distressing detail and upbeat outcomes is sensitively handled, and the acting is superb, especially from the younger cast members, with a developed use of close-ups and settings in the mise-en-scène. The whole is based on true events, as an epilogue makes clear, with helmet cam footage of the actual bust, and sobering statistics as to the extent of child slavery in the world.