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Hey folks! How are all of you? We hope you had a fantastic 4th! And for our Canadian friends, we hope you had an awesome 1st! Life has been hectic, but more so with getting PoV ready and the blog tour together, so we haven’t gotten to our welcome to the month post yet, but we might actually have to skip it this month.

But we have plenty of other fun stuff planned! So, don’t worry!

Today, we wanted to do a review for the movie ‘Sound of Freedom’, which we went to see with our parents on the 4th! So, here we go!

The Review

So, when we saw that they were making a movie that was going to shed light on human trafficking, primarily the trafficking of millions of children, our family knew that was something we wanted to support. It’s something we’ve always felt not enough people knew about.

So, cue a hot and humid 4th in the south where everyone and their cousins are on the lake, so our parents decided we’d go see the movie instead.

We were expecting it to be hard to watch, challenging, saddening…

It was…but it was also moving and so powerful!

The story follows two siblings from Honduras who are kidnapped…and sold into the web of child trafficking.

Tim Ballard is a Homeland Security Special Agent who has arrested over 250 (we believe he says 288) pedophiles, but all that changes when he ends up on a case where he actually rescues a child… it’s something he’s never done before, and it moves him in a new way, charting a new course for his life. So to speak…

The story follows Tim’s daring rescue of a young girl he’s never met… his actions and the actions of those who help him rescue over fifty kids and arrest several leading traffickers.

The U.S. government stopped funding him after a few weeks passed, and he had no solid leads, so Tim quit his job and put together his own team, working with the Columbian government to find this girl. Despite all the things that seemed to be intent on keeping him from finding her he stuck with it…

The story is real, raw…but handled very well, with nothing ever coming on screen…you’re given enough details to know what’s going on without actually ever seeing it. It is handled extremely well.

But the story isn’t about Tim Ballard, really… it is supposed to give those two Honduran children a voice, but not just those two kids…but also the TWO MILLION kids just like them who are sold into child sex trafficking every year!

This is an incredible story and a movie that everyone who is a teen or older should watch. There are a few cuss words because, fun fact time, this movie was originally filmed by 20th Century Fox, which was bought by Disney about 5 years ago…which then put a halt on the release of this movie. It’s been sitting, finished, for 5 years.

Eventually, Disney sold the rights, and after roadblocks you’d never believe, as Jim Caviezel said, here we are!

People didn’t want this movie released, they didn’t want the truth shared. Jim Caviezel lost two agents that he’d had for 12 and 15 years over this movie, as well as his attorney. They don’t want us to know… They don’t want this stopped. But it’s time to stand… it’s been time to stand.

There are more slaves today than there were even when slavery was legal! And a lot of those slaves are children and young women.

Watch the movie, educate yourself, and if you feel led, donate to O.U.R. Operation Underground Railroad is working to end this, fighting against it. Not all of us can be like Tim Ballard, but we can fund operations like his to help fight. We can speak out. We can stand with them and raise awareness.

Don’t let this continue. Fight back in any way you can!

Conclusion

As our final note…’Sound of Freedom’ was a light-shedding movie, and the beginning and the end of the film tied into each other really well.

It’s a movie everyone should watch at one point, just so they fully understand what is happening in our world and how corrupt everything is.

We hope you have a great weekend!

As the movie says, remember…

“God’s Children are not for sale!”

Hooroo!
Sisters Three