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“While it may just be a Barbie map in a Barbie world, the fact that a cartoonish, crayon-scribbled map seems to go out of its way to depict the PRC’s unlawful territorial claims illustrates the pressure that Hollywood is under to please CCP censors,”...

“The map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing,” a spokesperson for the Warner Bros. Film Group said. “The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the ‘real world.’ It was not intended to make any type of statement.”

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[-] HectorBarbossa99@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

to be fair, its not just the GOP. I believe certain Asian countries, including Vietnam, have outright banned the showing of the film.

Still stupid af tbh

[-] OasissisaO@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. There's a lot of projection going on here. While I understand that art allows us to see and project ourselves onto it, I don't believe a movie about a plastic fashion doll is quite the same.

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