I disagree that this will equal any real numbers on its own. People don't need anything special to happen, or to be coerced, into seeing a good movie. Nobody needed the Streisand effect to see Taken or that great movie from the 90s that was about trafficking humans for sex slavery, called Breakdown. It is a good movie and we saw it in a full theater. Then rented it many times cuz it's scary. My point is that Taken and Breakdown weren't the slightest controversial and nobody tried to make anyone that hadn't seen it feel bad or morally deficient.

I just think SOF is a good movie that can stand on its own. And I think more people will see it if they don't feel like it will make relationships that are already strained, worse. There's a very isolated and alienated anon in my extended family that has used every opportunity available over the last 5 years to try and act morally superior to the people she is desperate to be accepted by. She wants validation from what she sees as the "mainstream" family, much the same way that we at GAW are forever waiting for the Mainstream to agree with us. The family will agree that political elites make laws for the but not for... and they will agree that the breakdown of the middle class is an assault on family cohesion, and that social media is an absolute destructive force, and that the sexualization of children is wrong, etc. etc. So much to agree on and talk about and get to work over. Together.

But she isn't really about that. What she's more about is trying to feel superior and is using ever more extreme devices to use as evidence that she is superior. So when it came to the movie that each of us had planned on seeing at one time or another, she saw an opportunity to make it about passing her litmus test of good and evil. She bought 8 tickets and decided when and where we would be seeing it. When someone revealed they had work at that time and had planned on a different day for their wife and and another friend to go with him on his day off, it became "I can see that your job and bank account are more important than children". It became a huge and toxic power play for control of the people she feels are morally less than her. Her without a job, her that has no social group other than online strangers. She ended up not being able to afford those tix, angry that everyone didn't drop everything and go see it on her terms, and further alienated because nobody is as dedicated to misery and being a victim than her. This didn't happen with Taken. Her and I agree on tons of stuff, and she posts here regularly but doesn't know that I do , and that I agree with much of what she's on about. But because she needs it to be about her, instead of doing the work and having the discipline to not make it about her, I can't let her know I'm right there with her, because I'm not trying to control people or divide. There's always gonna be someone that's seen it more times. There's always gonna be those that saw it harder. Or REALLY got it. Or saw it before it was cool. Etc. These people aren't helping the children. Pride can get in the way.

Hey look, I built a wall! Lol. Sorry bout that. I get worked up over these subjects, of course.