‘Barbie’ to Be Released in Philippines Cinemas, But Map Scene May Be Blurred

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Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” has been allowed a commercial release in the Philippines, following a review by the country’s film censors. However, the scene that shows a controversial map may have to be …

showed the controversial ‘nine dash line.’ “The map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing. 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,” a spokesperson for the Warner Bros. Film Group toldThe MTRCB statement aligns itself with that point of view.

The MTRCB has not updated its own web site with a fresh statement since announcing the July 4 review. However, it emailed a new statement to. In a list of recent classifications, “Barbie” is shown to have been granted a “PG” certificate, meaning that viewers below 13 years old must be accompanied by a parent or supervising adult.

Philippines media also reports that the censors have asked Warner Bros. to blur the controversial lines on the map, though this is not mentioned in the MTRCB statement . “Considering the context by which the cartoonish map of the character ‘Weird Barbie’ was portrayed in the film, the Review Committee is convinced that the contentious scene does not depict the ‘nine-dash line.’ Instead, the map portrayed the route of the make-believe journey of Barbie from Barbie Land to the ‘real world, as an integral part of the story.

 

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