Vietnam is getting serious about this particular set decor.
Less than a week since banning director Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated Barbie, Vietnam bans the Chinese-produced Netflix drama series Flight to You. The Vietnamese government banned the series for similar reasons: a map.
In both Barbie and Flight to You, a map is shown to have the “nine-dash line,” which depicts China as owning around 90 percent of the South China Sea. However, China has no claim to that sea, yet the country brought its military into that region and occupies some islands there. Vietnam says that the use of the map violates its sovereignty and they will not tolerate any depictions of the “nine-dash line” in film and TV.
“As a result of the Vietnamese regulator banning elements of the series, we have removed ‘Flight to You’ from Netflix in Vietnam. It remains available on our service in other markets,” a Netflix spokesperson told Variety in an emailed statement.
So what are movies and shows able to do to screen in Vietnam?
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
