In recent weeks, censorship has been launched in some countries against Barbie. Last status? Algeria. More than two weeks after its arrival on the country’s screens, Greta Gerwig’s film has just been suddenly deprogrammed, several local media have reported.
According to the website 24 hours Algeriaauthorities blame feature film ” moral offense »and to highlight “scenes intended for an adult audience »due to disturbing allusions to homosexuality.
Banned in Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan…
A ban in addition to the long list countries that have decided to censor the film since its release, due to disagreement with local customs. Thursday 10 August is the Kuwait for those who banned the film “Attack on public morals “after claiming to Warner” the removal of some obscene scenes that encourage unacceptable behavior »without providing details on the passages in question.
Lebanon is the first country to announce the ban Barbie, Wednesday 9 August. The Lebanese Minister of Culture, Mohammad Mortadahe justified his decision by assuring that the film does “the promotion of homosexuality and gender reassignment advocates the rejection of paternal guardianship, undermines and ridicules the role of the mother, and questions the need for marriage and family formation ».
This was announced in mid-July by the Pakistani province of Punjab, in the center-east of the country reject the film’s release due to her “shocking content”relationships Publication.
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Long before its release in early July, Vietnam had decided to ban it Barbie for diplomatic reasons, due to scenes in which a map appears showing “the nine-point line »which China uses to justify its controversial territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Despite all these bans, the film has already entered the top 25 greatest blockbusters in cinema history, and already has more than a billion dollars in gross. Figures that should rise further in the coming weeks, the feature film still leads the box office in France and the United States.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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