Different country, different culture. Anyhow, the movie is actually somewhat superficial, I understand.
“Different country, different culture” doesn’t make homophobia okay, and it doesn’t make it okay to call the movie homophobic when it had nothing at all to do with gay people. They’re just calling it that because their fragile patriarchy conceives of an attack against it as being anti-man which to them is also gay. It’s a disgusting and wrong point of view, and we can say that despite their country and culture.
Barbie was a pretty thorough takedown of patriarchy and toxic masculinity and hardly seemed superficial to me.
And I would hope those countries’ points of view would in fact be very difficult to understand.
I would absolutely not use the word “superficial” to describe Barbie, and feel fairly confident you haven’t seen the movie given that you’ve chosen it.
How is it then? Actually good? What’s the message?
Edit: no spoilers pls. But is it like a Lego movie situation, where you expect something awful and then its literally a masterpiece?
I was expecting “eh” but it was actually one of the better movies I’ve seen in a long time, and I’ve never even been a fan of Barbie toys. As for the message, there’s a few themes going on and I don’t have the communication skills to relay them without spoiling it.
If pretending a minority within your population doesn’t exist unless you’re oppressing them or banning anything that might remind people they exist, your culture is fucked up and wrong.
But I can’t kiss my uncle on the lips when we meet if I know homosexuals exist, they make it gay. - some dude in one of these countries.
I think they’re using homosexuality as a front for not wanting the women of the country to watch. Wouldn’t want them to find any sense of empowerment from the movie. I honestly can’t even remember anything that was explicitly homosexual in the film.
Maybe they got lost in Ryan Gosling’s eyes.
Stupid sexy Gosling.
Lol my wife did say she was slightly concerned with my sexuality after I got out of the theater gushing over him.
Better if you gush over him than me. :)
Phhss, Amateurs! Real men are not afraid of homosexuality; they ban the movie for the scary dots in the water! 😤
Different country, shitty hateful culture
Also a good movie.
But… How? I can’t think of a moment in the movie there is any “homosexuality”.
Maybe the “I’ll beach you off” bit, but that’s more of a play on words and the characters most definitely don’t understand what they are saying.
relentlessly discriminate against an entire minority > “that’s just our culture!” > pretty shit culture
It’s always “sex, sex, sex” with these countries. Everywhere they look there is sex. /s
Fuck these fascist cunts.
When will places learn that going to or watching movies is not mandatory. I have not seen one in ages. Watched two old sci fi films though last night. Its so strange. I just watch whatever I feel like or not. Maybe I do something else. Life. Its bigger. Its bigger than you and…
They probably saw all the vibrant colors in the movie trailers and immediately fixated on “gay”…
Backward as counties to begin with…from a Western perspective.
Bad reason to bad but it’s preferable if countries start banning awful, vile western spewings
Because you shouldn’t be allowed to watch bad movies, I guess?
If it teaches worship of western ideals then you should not be be allowed to
Barbie dismantles western ideals. Ok they’re global ideals but western as well
Isn’t that a bit fascist? People should be able to watch what they want to watch
That’s not what fascism is. We ban things as a society that are harmful for us. I’m sure libertarians disagree with that basic principal but pretty much everyone else doesnt
I don’t think you know what “fascist” means.
Moreover, people will happily complain that Chinese/Russian “propaganda” is allowed to exist, especially on the internet. They will demand that Chinese/Russian “propaganda” is removed from social spaces. And, then they somehow they have a problem with other countries (esp. China/Russia) wanting to do the exact same thing. The premise is that the propaganda being put out is misrepresenting the truth to influence public thought: when it comes from China/Russia, people want it blocked and removed; when it comes from the West, blocking and removing it is some sort of “free speech” issue (or, as you wrongly claim here, “fascism”).
In this particular case, I don’t personally know hardly anything about the movie, and I do strongly disagree with using “promoting homosexuality” as an excuse to ban something. But in general, countries wanting to put a damper on other countries’ propaganda is near universal.
This shit is why not every migrant is good. They bring their shitty homophobic culture with them.
I have seen people who are both homophobic and xenophobic. I have seen homophobic people who weren’t xenophobic. I have also seen people who are neither.
But this? What?
I’m surprised, I’ve seen this one trotted out before many times.
My response is that Western Christian culture was exactly as hateful, we’ve just educated it away for the most part, and the same can be done with brown folks.
Xenophobia but not homophobic?
