The Freedom of Silence

The premise is that by the year 2030 the government has outlawed Christianity (and presumably other religions) in the name of tolerance and has established an official church. The main character, Zach Thompson is running a small Christian church out of his home and with the help of his friend Aaron, a Navy Seal taught advanced networking security by the government attempts to get the word out to the country about just what the government is doing.

The idea behind the movie is an interesting one, and probably not as outlandish as we would like to believe. The acting is OK and the story has a couple of nice twists.

One thing that jumps out is that this movie is supposed to take place in 2030 but the cars and technology is distinctly 2010.

The grimly ironic thing about The Freedom Of Silence is that after this film came out we elected Donald Trump with the support of evangelicals and we've gotten a look at the kind of society hey would give us. Not something I or a majority of us want,

But this is 2030 and Christianity has been outlawed by a liberal government and they've established a police force to go after professing Christians. they meet in the equivalent of catacombs like they did in the first 2 centuries AD.

A couple of tech savvy believers are working on a way to bring the message to the whole world at once. And the government is looking for them because they know something's afoot.

The acting, the direction and all else about this film is laughably bad. m sure most churches would feel this way.

Besides the government doesn't have to outlaw Christianity, just start taxing the churches, most of all these colossal mega-church empires. They would blow' away like dust.

Laughably bad acting, boring and ineffective editing, derpy canned soft-rock muzak, and an awkward all-white cast bring this ridiculous farce of a film to paranoid, whining life. The premise of this film is that Christianity has become outlawed in America, and the straggling hangers-on of poor, persecuted Christians are brutalized at every turn by the government.

The story is supposed to involve a Christian undergoing a sometimes violent interrogation wherein the evil atheist government seeks other Christians, but honestly the film is so dull that I kept falling asleep. Every time I woke up, it was the same thing: poorly scripted dialogues between characters void of personalities, the focus of which were purely "Wah, waaah wah! Christians good, gubmint bad! Christians persecuted!" The film has no real or accurate representation of non-Christians. It also doesn't have any non-whites in its lame storyline. But that's okay, because it also doesn't have any action, interesting characters, or much of a point.

I had to give up watching because nothing was happening and time should not be wasted on garbage.

This not-very-well-produced movie covers societal ills of which perhaps many are unaware. It addresses what's passed off as moral progress and "tolerance" by demonstrating the hypocrisy of its purveyors. The thing is you don't need a Sci-Fi premise to expound and dramatize that. I would have made it a socio/psycho-drama to deal with present day hypocrisy (the social psychosis of political GroupThink and cognitive dissonance). Modern day PC is so constraining and brutish that there are surely hundreds of contexts to dramatize the negative impact in a compelling motion picture. Of course that would cast off the entertainment field's PC too -- that thing that disallows anything so real and gritty from entering people's "PC entertainment consciousness" by dealing with a subject of religion unless it's either a biblical account or a dystopian fantasy. This story should be told again, but next time with a serious grain of realism and drama rather than as a fantasy. I gave it a rating of 6 (out of 10) for broaching a taboo subject.

This is exactly the kind of bad film I want to see. The production team clearly had a shoe string budget, as most scenes appear to be shot in the same house or "on location" in public spaces, such as the park. The actors, though inept, try their hardest (and always fail). I must caution that there are many long, boring stretches. There were also times I laughed out loud. Best to watch with friends.

As a religious film, it's about what you would expect. But I have to give the writers some credit; they did TRY to slip in a human element to go alongside the preaching, so it's not completely insufferable. I don't think this is a hateful film. Just very, very ignorant. Going in I thought I would hate it, but found myself charmed by its backyard production values and innocent stupidity.

The people who worked on this film have a ton of heart and it's clear they did the best they could, even when their best wasn't good enough. At least it doesn't star Kirk Cameron.