Friday Flavour presents five educative, real life based movies to watch and reflect upon with your loved ones, be it in cinemas or at home.
Sound of Freedom
Released in cinemas on July 4, 2023, Sound of Freedom starring Jim Caviezel is a thriller drama that beams the searchlight on the well-connected, global child trafficking business that sees over 10 million children missing and abducted children exploited in this trade, and thousands of them trafficked in the US, as well as one man’s effort to take save them from.
Directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde and distributed by Angel Studios (producers of Chosen series and animation, David) Sound of Freedom cost $14.5 million to make but has grossed over $200 million dollars since its premiere, overtaking Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones and the Sun Dial (with over $200 million production budget) at the box office and cinemas.
Besides, with the mainstream media bashing the film, and the US government official in defense and denial mode, the film has become a must-watch for those who truly are or want to be awake to what’s happening in our society and the world.
Oppenheimer
Directed by the popular, deeply reflective and abstractive filmmaker, Christopher Nolan (Inception), Oppenheimer is a biopic of the man who created the first atomic bomb in 1945, J Robert Oppenheimer, used by America in World War II.
Starring Matt Damon as Leslie Groves Jr, and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Emily Blunt (Kitty Oppenheimer), the three-hour dramatic thriller is set during the World War II, when Lt General Leslie Groves Jr appoints physicist J Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world’s first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.
Cillian Murphy gives an edge-of-the-seat performance in slow, dark and quietly terrifying drama.
Barely a week since its release (July 21, 2023), the film has grossed $130.8 million at the international box office, and $238 million, successfully beating its $100 million production budget.
Backed by Universal Studios, with producers Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas and Charles Roven, the film also stars Robert Downey Junior, Rami Malek, Josh Hartnett, Florence Pugh, Jack Quaid among others.
