But this crowd, I could tell, would view the events depicted over the next two-plus hours as entirely literal.Ĭaviezel, best known for being tortured to death in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, has become a prominent figure on the conspiracist right, giving speeches and interviews in which he hints at an underground holy war between patriots and a sinister legion of evildoers who are harvesting the blood of children. For the seasoned moviegoer, this phrase is a joke - we know that cinema will stretch almost any “truth” to the breaking point - and the rank insincerity of such a pronouncement is the foundation of the prankish opening titles of Fargo.
The familiar words had appeared on screen, and an elderly man had taken it upon himself to read them aloud, to the rest of a sizable audience seated for a matinee showing of the anti- child-trafficking thriller Sound of Freedom, starring Jim Caviezel. “Based on a true story,” I heard from somewhere across the theater.
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