A clearly distressed and/or neurodivergent kid: "I'm a cat" The person that's supposed to care for the kid: "oh yeah? well I guess you'll be sleeping outside then" like, what?

The crossover nobody wanted Edit: Some More News x Dead Domain is the crossover we actually wanted

I also didn't like the way the pastor “cured” Terry’s cat trauma response in the movie. He basically locked her outside until she said she didn't want to be a cat and they acted like that harsh and unsympathetic method is the way foster parents should treat traumatized children

Ugh the cat thing really pisses me off. I think they knew exactly what they were doing with that. They are targeting people who already are vaguely transphobic and trying to fully indoctrinate them. Truly vile.

The Sound of Shameless Grifters.

The cat thing definitely feels like a dog whistle. But it’s niche enough that someone could have purposefully exaggerated that part of the story without it raising a red flag to those who don’t know about it.

As a trans girl raised by Christians who recently got into the foster system, I think it would be catastrophic for more Christians to involve themselves further. The characters presented in the film may be a lot more sympathetic than ACTUAL real life Christian’s, but in my experience growing up in that kind of community I didn’t meet a single person I would want within 10 miles of my kids (if I had any). I find the arrogance of claiming that “God called me to adopt” to be the biggest red flag from anyone. There is a great need, but I can only see Christians doing more harm than good

"Is it a scam?" If it's from the Daily Wire I'm just gonna assume the answer is: yes

The irony of the Daily Wire supporting the " Protect the Children" movement when at least one of them supports Child Marriage

It sounds like there's an additional layer passive conservative propaganda to this film (and the story itself): the systemic problems that cause kids to suffer from abuse are supposedly solved by individual citizens deciding to be good people and take on a massive burden, instead of those in power doing anything to fix the problems themselves. It's kinda like when you see a "feel good" news article about someone paying off kids' school lunch debt: the individual act of kindness is overshadowed by the systemic cruelty that put them in that situation in the first place. Should learning that there are hundreds of thousands of kids in foster care inspire you to adopt a kid? Probably, yeah. But it should also make you ask why there are that many kids without a good home in one of the richest countries in the world.

Sound of Freedom. Sound of Hope. Fallen Angel Studios oughta remake Sound of Music. On second thought, *NO.*

I feel like the litterbox thing could’ve also been a dig at furries and because we’ve been the internet’s punching bags for years, and there’s also the 80% LGBT+ statistic that gets rolled out pretty often.

Another thing on the potential transphobia on the cat kid bit, it also would potentially target people who are xenogender, which majority of them are neurodivergent and compare themselves to animals or objects as a way to explain their gender. I can guess its why because of the transphobes mocking trans identities, xenogenders get a lot of flack for it by both parties. Just wanted to add something.

Remember, Bentkey, the conservative CHILDRENS programme is named after a nsfw joke Jeremy Boring tells his friends while drunk.

Seems like the scriptwriter saw, “acted like a cat”, then wrote the whole movie without researching further. They just couldn’t pass up a chance to milk that

Next year; The Sound of Salvation!!! Ah, gotta love how our black and brown trauma is being used by conservatives as feel good pop corn munchies, and that this dynamic kinda seems to get ignored in such analyses

Me: "Can we have Sound of Freedom?" Mom: "We have Sound of Freedom at home"

To be honest, the idea of telling a traumatized kid that she only gets to sleep in a bed if she stops engaging in her coping mechanism horrifies me. It might have been a playful joke, but I can see a child taking that as a threat.

from the people who brought you "the sound of freedom" and "sound of hope" comes a new thriller: "TRAUMA FROM SOUNDING"

Everyone stop what you're doing, there's new Dead Domain content.

I like how the person who made the human trafficking movie got convicted of human trafficking Every conservative accusation is a confession

This movie opened to only $3,000,000 over this past weekend. For comparison, Sound of Freedom made close to $20,000,000 this weekend last year 😬😬

I hate that this kind of conservative brain rot is starting to get mainstream attention. Like, can we not give them a platform tho?

Not gonna lie I would HATE it if someone made a movie about my life depicting my trauma and worse moments... and all for sympathy porn for christians.

Coincidentally, I was binging your content and rewatched the Sound of Freedom essay yesterday. Perfect timing!

Jeremy Boring is the most accurately named person in recent history.

After Sound of Freedom came out (and my mom saw it like 2+ times), she made up a story about talking with a woman at the airport (where she works as a gate agent) who had been in a flight with a little boy from Mexico who spoke fluent English and said all he does is work, that he doesn't know video games or fun, and that he doesn't know where he is or where his family is if he could make his way back. There had to be an investigation because she called the LEOs (airport cops) and begged them to look into this kid. It only later was told to me as, "Ha ha, I guess that lady was confused! The kid had actually been traveling to North Carolina and had been visiting his grandma someplace in Mexico and wasn't lost and didn't need help and the family is so embarrassed!" Which I know means she completely fabricated the event because I know the tells of her pulling stuff out of her ass. And whoo boy did that story smell of poo. I could also tell it was fake because it was directly after she'd watched Sound of Freedom and was going on and on about how fulfilling it would be to save innocent kids from slavery. Which wow that's some kinda white savior complex! Anyway. Just like when she stole so much alcohol an airline noticed, she got in 0 trouble because she's a union rep and threatens to sue because she 'knows the book.' One of these days she's gonna do this sort of thing and finally Find Out.

I think instead of torturing yourself you should just watch Godzilla Minus One again

AMC CEO denies that some “sold out” sound of freedom theaters were empty is hilarious. I work in a small theater in conservative central and we had so many theaters like that throughout the run of sound of freedom.

As a former foster child myself who struggles with trauma I welcome people fostering over just making more children when we are already at 8 billion and counting. But this movie seems to be handling important issues of trauma very clumsily and recklessly. Bible thumpers aren't the best people to handle this subject.

The creators of the movie seems to at least care about the topic (even if the execution can be questionable) but angelstudios so far just care about money. Ig its not surprising from a company and especially when they made sound of freedom

I literally yelled when I saw your thumbnail when I watched that episode of Some More News

The sound of me eating some air fyer chicken tenders while watching this video aw yeahh

In the Fundie Fridays essay on Angel Studios and Sound of Freedom, they showed that the pay-it-forward-model came out to about 60 tickets paid for per person. Now you say that all that only was 9% of the box office gross. That means according to my math that only about 25 000 people bought pay-it-forward-tickets (assuming 15$ per ticket). In FF's and The Morbid Zoo's dissection of Sound of Freedom, they noted the very effective marketing, but now it seems like this might have been a singular occurance that won't work again. Encouraging.

The funniest part about all of this is Candace Owens promoted this Daily Wire film the other day.

At least it wasn't another faith-based sports film. My mom's Baptist side of the family likes to do a movie marathon of those ones during Christmas gatherings, and I'm always hard pressed not to have a toddler-esque meltdown in response to the insertion of the next disc into the dvd player.

I think there's a really cool story to tell and I think it would have been better told as a HBO style miniseries

Ah yes, the Christian Cloverfield extended universe. They adopt the foster movies that nobody wanted to flip them for questionable moneys.

If i had a nickel for everytime an angelstudio movie use difficult subjects to gain money in the end credits, i'd have two nickels. Which isnt a lot but it sure is weird that it happen twice.

I went and saw Inside Out 2, which is likely a far better choice. I saw more Minions people than Sound of Hope people.

What is Letitia Wright becomes the new Candace Owens? Like imagine the new Black Panther turns grifter!

since the cat situation was completly altered I can't help but suspect that Terry didn't have a knife under her pillow and most certiently was not pimping herself in highschool

Sex worker here-- tbch I've almost never met a sex worker w/o a trauma history, but it's not for the reason ppl think. It's bc we have a special skillset: social/emotional hypervigilance/insight, tolerance of escalated situations without losing our cool, etc. We know how to handle people having big feelings and can keep our cool if they turn on us. Also bc of the taboo we have to already be someone alienated and not feel like we're losing a lot / making ourselves newly deviant (though sometimes we're just autists too ^_^ but it's usually borderline. In my estimation there's like a >90% rate of borderline in sex workers).

Hey! I just wanted to add something to your commentary on the cat behavior of the child. My understanding is acting like a cat or some other animal is actually a trauma resonse in children. I don't think it's related to transness, as I've seen adoption KZfaq channels talk about how to approach a child that is always acting like an animal after trauma. Anyways, have a good day! Id love to hear other people's opinions on this.

i work at a movie theater, and the angel studios movies we get often sell out, even with the tickets being more expensive. i've noticed only a handful of people using the pay it forward thing. it's rough out here

Grievance Media strikes again! Buy it, reds! This DW Dump definitely will matter eventually!

When I went to the endo to start hrt, I told them I'd rather adopt a child than freeze my stuff. I still would.

The buying a ticket for “reach” is such a bullshit way of getting more money. As niche as these movies are in the grand scheme I think that it’s only a matter of time before the film industry attempts to implement this as a part of the movie going experience

Just got a two minute ad for "The Firing Squad" while watching this premiere. Looks like the same drivel from the same people. Even got Diddy's dude, Cuba "Snow Dogs" Gooding Jr. in it. Yeesh.

I'll bet a million bucks we'll see a "Sound of Faith" at some point and I can only imagine what sort of hot garbage moral lesson/portrayal it'll have. 🙃

As a mild therian the cat thing genuinely made me wince

Fingers crossed this is a sign DW is desperate for money + in the red financially

Can’t wait for that Snow White movie with what’s-her-name. Someone need to make a bingo card/drinking game. The free space is there is a clip of Jeremy Boring praising himself for making the first “anit-woke” fairytale or some ridiculous bull shit like that.

I had literally never heard of this movie until I saw it on a poster last week when seeing Inside Out 2. Take a wild guess which I'd recommend seeing.

My guess is with the "pay it forward" model, most of the money never passes from one hand into another.

If I had a nickel for everytime some shitty Christian movie with the title "Sound of X" was made, I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

If you want to watch a good Christian movie, try Au Hasard Balthazar. It has near perfect ratings on Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes and is widely considered to be one of the greatest movies of all time. The difference is that, despite being a Jesus allegory and made by the devout Robert Bresson, it's a drama and not a preachy "feel good" movie. The Gospel According to St. Matthew is also arguably the best depiction of Jesus in any movie, despite its director being an open gay atheist who is most famous for directing Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom.

"Sound of Election Fraud" lmao, that would be a good movie

Oh my goodness, my mom was talking to my grandma about wanting to see this film the other day. I raised my eyebrow at the name, but when she described the plot I figured it must be unrelated to Sound of Freedom. Guess I was wrong about that.

I work at a movie theater in a rather conservative part of the country, and over the past couple of months we have gotten most of the movies Angel Studios have released recently, and every single one of them had the pay it forward message at the end, usually promoted by either the leading actor, or if it was based on a true story, the real person the film was based on. This was the same case for Sound of Hope. The real life Reverend and Donna was on screen, telling people to give Angel Studios more money. The first thing I noticed watching that while waiting for the conservative senior citizens to get out of their seats was the reverend’s gold watch.

I love some more news, but to be clear, I am referring to the outlet specifically called "some more news", featuring Cody and Warmbo.

Thank you for the constant great and aducational content,your team really out did themselves this time

Thank you for reviewing this movie so I don't have to. Personally, I think I would be better off reading the book.

Not gonna lie every time you said Possum Trot I thought you said Possumtron. Thinking like "Why would they name the movie that especially a Hallmark movie?"

Wait, there's another one??

I cant escape that yellow creamed corn fuck! (Also great video LOL)

Shit I pretended to be a cat at times til I was like 14, I got that capital A autism 😂 life was hard sometimes and it was easier to just be a cat for a while. I have some childhood trauma and ended up in care & misbehaving too so all that feels familiar 😅 If these guys wanted to actually help kids they could start a fund for adoption so people who are good candidates but can't afford all the fees can adopt children. They don't actually care about kids though, they care about profits.

I have been wondering if the “these theaters were sold out but no one was there!! The theaters are suppressing this movie!!” Had more to do with “pay it forward” tickets than theaters trying to hide the movie

-therian all nervous in the chat- cat, heh, funny..

Clicked immediately 🎉 commenting for algo

Wait, did Letitia Wright produce the original film production, or the daily wire distribution of it? Hoping its the former atleast.

I appreciate you always including thorough context for stuff like this. The studio and pay it forward stuff were things I only heard about in passing and really helped paint a fuller picture for me. Also what was that showdy at the start?! Anyways. I really appreciate the extra effort. :3 💛🍀

Ahh they’re pulling a Cloverfield

I agree with your analysis that those who made the movie appear to be genuine about wanting to help kids! however unfortunately there is a greater connection between Christian dominionism and foster care/adoption that isn't always so easy to see on the surface. I highly recommend Kathryn Joyce's book "The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption" and I deeply hope you will give it a read before yourself adopting a child. Basically, Christians are encouraged to adopt by their churches to further their Great Commission agendas to the point where there actually is a higher demand for adoptable kids than there are kids who need to be separated from their families, which ties in nicely with colonialism and structural racism/colorism!

Interesting, I doubt that the depiction of the "cat girl" is intentional... but I would not be surprised at all if it turned out that it was a factor in why it was picked up by the DW. Also I keep hearing the title as "Possumtron", and now I want that movie.

Hi from a fellow ex-Lutheran! I really enjoy your videos.

11:32 nooooo not Pastor Anna! What's she doing in this gross slop? She was amazing in The Expanse.

Sound of Trauma 😂

These 'sound of' movies take the "real" stories and crank it up to 20

Oh shit, another infernally-inspired former Lutheran! There are dozens of us!

Sound of Bravery is probably next.

It feels extremely scummy for this real life story to be used as propaganda/bragging rights for the adoptive parents. I wonder whether the adopted child agreed to her story being publicised and used in this way.

On the topic of pay it forward tickets I’m 100% sure it’s a scam. Because they cost more than the tickets at the theater I work at and at least at my location we can’t even honor the tickets because they’re not affiliated with any of our actual ticket distributors

i saw 1 ad for this movie in total. I was somewhat hopeful, but saw some definite warning signs in the ad, so wasnt crazy interested. Then i saw angel studios, and was like "welp, this is definitely garbage propoganda"

Props to giving the film an unbiased look despite its connections to dw

The sound of screaming children has been removed.

I was also concerned about the "I'm a cat" subplot because this is a legitimate thing foster kiddos will do to help with trauma. I've fostered a kid (5yo) who would meow or nuzzle people as a way of being outside of themself for a while, and I watched that scene where the dad wanted to feed his foster kid chicken livers and thought "Oh, no... I may need to actually break down for my kid's teachers that this is *not* how you help a kid who uses roleplay as a coping mechanism." They did a lot of things in that movie that humanized the foster parents, but those parents still had a lot of things they did wrong that were not shown under any critical lens. (For the record, Laura - Foster Parent Partner has some videos on the basics of how to handle a foster kid who uses animal roleplay to cope, but the bottom line is to not treat it as a huge deal--that kid knows they are not a cat, they just need a break from being a scared kid.)

I cant say, I'm surprised that's where Leticia Wright ended up. What a waste of good talent Edit: since this is supposed to be a family/inspirational movie, they could have omitted the sa scene as those are very triggering in religious communities, who encourage "praying away" mental illnesses' symptoms. 🙃

Having no idea what this movie was, i suggested going to the theater to see it cause nothing else was on and i just like possums and wanted to see one. I didnt even make it 5 seconds into the trailer before being like "fuck this, nevermind"

I’m thinking about the “pretending to be a cat” thing. From what you read in the article it’s really hard to judge what actually was going on there; lots of kids do animal behavior in different ways for different reasons. Like there’s a difference between 8-year-old me thinking “raar I’m a dinosaur” as I chomped on broccoli vs one of the neighborhood kids (about 6yo) who likes to say she’s a cat and will meow at adults instead of talking to them vs some more complex ND thing vs whatever trauma response they’re implying here vs… The point is, not having been there, I’ve got no way to guess. But if it is like the second one (the neighborhood kid who meows when you talk to her)-a game she plays that maybe also helps cover up some anxiety-doing the “well cats sleep outside but KIDS get to sleep in this nice bed” thing can be a way to give the kid an opportunity to end the game themself without demanding it, giving orders, etc. Especially if you’re trying to avoid getting into a battle of wills. I think that’s what the article was getting at? Setting boundaries but letting the kids choose what to do about it rather than jumping straight to forcing the issue. What we don’t know is how the new parents would react if the kid had said “ok meow” and then spent the next two hours crawling around on the porch-would they actually have locked her out, or would they have tried to talk to her and understand what she was feeling etc?

Mannn I used to love Letita Wright, had such a huge crush on her when I was a teenager and I saw her in Humans. 😢 So disappointed

I haven't seen this movie yet, but... at what point are these kids ever portrayed as anything other than a problem to be solved?

Not gonna lie you went way to easy on this movie. They knew exactly what they were doing with Terry throughout the movie wether it be overplaying the cat thing or the pimping herself out aspect.

Guarantee the next one will be called "the sound of liberty"

You are glowing in this video 🤩

Shout out to having the Web Weaver poster in the background. Possibly my favorite Spider person and I wise they did more with him

WHY WOULD YOU EVER WILLINGLY TALK TO WURMBO???? JUST SAYING HIS NAME HAS THE POWER TO SUMMON HIM TO YOU!!!!

Man these Sound of Music legacy sequels are weird.

Hadn't heard of this one yet, but saw Saberspark's coverage of the Bentkey cartoons (mainly their Bluey ripoff) and CynicalReviews' video about Lady Ballers, so I know what to expect here.

I was forced to watch this with my moms church friends in theaters and was expecting garbage I was pleasantly surprised that it was kinda ok the parenting moves were irritating but I’m just glad they didn’t take the try to turn the viewer Christian route