ANNA VIRGINIA BALLOUSSIER
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A Bolsonaro convoy disembarked at Cinemark Iguatemi, on Tuesday night (19), to attend the premiere of “Som da Liberdade”, the American production that became the buzz of QAnon, a high-caliber conspiratorial movement embraced by part of the far right world out.
The launch, in Brasília, was attended by senators Flávio Bolsonaro and Jorge Seif, from the PL, and Damares Alves, from the Republicans. The political delegation was joined by deputies Eduardo Bolsonaro, Zé Trovão, Julia Zanatta, Carla Zambelli, Marco Feliciano, Mario Frias and Rodolfo Nogueira, all from PL, plus Sergeant Fahur (PSD) and Zucco (Republicans).
“I was impacted and challenged not to give up my fight against child trafficking,” Damares wrote on social media after leaving the cinema. She took advantage of the same post to quote a phrase attributed to Tim Ballard, a real character who inspired the fiction: “God’s children are not for sale.”
With a low budget and million-dollar profit, the film fell in favor of QAnon, which, among other delusions, believes in a network of sex traffickers at the service of a global elite. One of its most vigorous arms would be, according to the absurd thesis, the Democratic Party in the United States, which would kidnap children and extract a rejuvenating substance from them.
Jim Caviezel, who plays Ballard and also played Jesus in 2004’s “The Passion of the Christ”, is an enthusiast of these unfounded conspiracy theories. In “Sound of Freedom”, he plays a former American government agent who fights against a group of child traffickers in Colombia in 2014.
The studio responsible for the film and the director, Mexican Alejandro Monteverde, deny any connections with QAnon. “Not in a million years would I have imagined that (the title) would be so politicized,” Monteverde told Vanity Fair magazine. “I saw a report (about child trafficking) in the well-known media and I always thought it would be a film that would unite us all.” He started writing the script in 2015, when the movement didn’t exist yet.
Caviezel added fuel to this conspiratorial fire by promoting the film at QAnon events. In July, Donald Trump, former US president and leader of the global far right, hosted a screening of the film at his golf club in New Jersey. Caviezel was, as was Tim Ballard. Not the director.
The Brazilian premiere was widely recorded by Bolsonaro parliamentarians. Secretary of Culture in the Jair Bolsonaro government, Mario Frias helped organize the session and offered the audience a speech with QAnon notes.
The former star of the Globo soap opera “Malhação” said that the work in question “will denounce something that the mainstream media doesn’t want to talk about.” He complains about publicity problems and suggests an imaginary media pact to cover up causes “directly linked to conservative agendas”, insinuating that the left doesn’t care about them, and the press would turn a blind eye to this.
The case of the sexualization of children, organ trafficking and child prostitution, the deputy lists.
In a video shared on the internet, Eduardo Bolsonaro also invests in polarization with ideological rivals. “Unfortunately, yes, people on the left initially tried to boycott the film.”
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