Maybe the biggest surprise of last summer's film offerings was the success of Sound of Freedom, the story of Tim Ballard the founder of Operation Underground Railroad. The movie was loosely based on Ballard's work in rescuing children who've been taken into sex slavery, but despite its powerful message that one would think everyone could agree with - that child slavery is a scourge that plagues the U.S. even more than many other parts of the world - the left was quite critical of the film and its theme.
This surprised me until I watched a Prager U. video of the real Tim Ballard telling his story (you can watch it here), and about 3/4 into the 13 minute video he mentions that he thinks that attempts to stock elementary school library shelves with pornography and to sexualize kids with drag shows and what-not are feeding into the child sex industry.
Of course, the library books and drag shows are supported by the left. Even President Biden has criticized Republicans for wanting to ban obscene materials from school libraries and to limit talk of sexuality by teachers. Ballard's indictment of such behavior is thus an indictment of the left which is perhaps the root of their disdain for Sound of Freedom.
Ballard himself has not escaped criticism, much of which seems to me to be either unsupported by evidence of just frivolous, but you can read more about O.U.R. and Ballard at Wikipedia and draw your own conclusions.
In any case, if the opportunity presents itself, watch the movie. It's very good and you won't be quite the same after having seen it.
Also, you might get a copy of my book Bridging the Abyss (see the radio button above) which is a novel based on the same theme as Sound of Freedom although it was published well before I was aware of Operation Underground Railroad and the methods used to rescue children in the novel are probably not the same as the methods employed by O.U.R.
