Movie critics are a special breed. Decades ago, when movie reviews used to appear in things call newspapers, you could read what critics thought about a movie playing in the local multiplex. One thing you may have noticed was that they didn't like what you liked and raved about films you never heard of. Another thing you would have noticed was that they had a special hatred for movies that had conservative or pro-religious messaging.
Out of this noble tradition comes Guardian movie critic Charles Bramesco with his review of 'Sound of Freedom' who brings so much progressive emotional baggage with him that American Airlines would charge him $300 in overweight fees.
Here's me on SOUND OF FREEDOM, the QAnon-adjacent thriller that pretends to be a real movie much in the same way a "pregnancy crisis center" pretends to be an actual clinic. Brazilians are already accusing me of pedophilia on Instagram. Enjoy! https://t.co/3UmztQuE8p
— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) July 6, 2023
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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See what we mean? It's not about the movie, is it?
We are loathed to give Bramesco clicks and attention since this is exactly what he wants, but it does give us a chance to highlight how politics can make a person so awful that they make themselves effectively allies of child traffickers.
Genuinely tickles me how many people go right to “you have a pedophile face” (in fairness, a good insult!)
— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) July 7, 2023
It's like he may have unresolved issues with a father figure somewhere in his past.
Fortunately, Twitter was here to scratch his Freudian itch.
I haven't seen the film, but this review REALLY does you no favors. Could you at least have critiqued it as a film FIRST before making it ideological? This is what I don't get. Why do we live in an age where nobody just values fair and objective anymore. Just review it as a…
— Paul Roland (@Prolandfilms) July 7, 2023
It really says more about the critic than it does the movie.
It’s official: stopping child sex trafficking is QAnon now pic.twitter.com/5aZKiZl3Ng
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) July 7, 2023
But hey, at least he owned the cons, amirite!
No kidding. Almost 370K children within the U.S. are going “missing” every year, with estimates AT LEAST 1/3 of these CHILDREN are being trafficked.
— Julie Lewis (@huntersmomma7) July 7, 2023
No one sane gives a F about politics or Qanon — we appreciate a movie calling attention to this ongoing horror show.
Sorry, Julie, we're talking about Guardian writers here.
— SOcean 🇺🇸 (@SOcean5) July 7, 2023
Well said.
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