Barbie Movie Banned in Vietnam – Webtekno

There are only a few days left for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. The highly anticipated movie 21 July 2023 and will bring iconic Barbie dolls to the big screen.

Shortly before its release, there was an important development regarding Barbie. Film, banned in Vietnam for one scene.

The ban was made because of a South China Sea map that included China’s territorial claims.

The country’s decision to ban the screening of the Barbie movie was made because of a map in one of the scenes. The aforementioned map covers the South China Sea “nine lines of lines“. The Vietnamese government’s opposition to it also causes the film to be banned. The controversial issue of the “nine line of lines” is China’s South China Sea. territorial claims represents. Vietnam opposes this line.

Vie Kien Thanh, general manager of the Vietnam Cinema Department, stated that the ban decision was taken by the Vietnam National Film Evaluation Council. Thanh said in his statement on the subject, “We do not license the American movie Barbie to be released in Vietnam; because of the nine dash lines disturbing contains the image” used the phrases.

This is not the first time Vietnam has taken such a decision for a similar reason. Before Subscribed and Uncharted Like other films depicting this line, it was banned in the country.