Who said details in a movie are not important?
The Barbie film has been banned in Vietnam, and now the Philippines is considering banning the movie as well. and it has nothing to do with the story or the characters.
So why are they banning the movie? Well, it has to do with a map that is seen on screen for only a moment.
The map has a “nine-dash line,” which depicts China as owning around 90 percent of the South China Sea. According to an international tribunal at The Hague, China actually had no legal basis for claiming that sea. Instead of taking this and backing off, China brought its military into that region and occupied some islands there.
So, in layman’s terms, these countries are upset over an American movie showing the preferred map of China.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
