Different country, different culture. Anyhow, the movie is actually somewhat superficial, I understand.

  • Max_Power
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    2 years ago

    It’s always “sex, sex, sex” with these countries. Everywhere they look there is sex. /s

  • Throwaway
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    This shit is why not every migrant is good. They bring their shitty homophobic culture with them.

    • callyral
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      122 years ago

      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?

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

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    “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.

  • @[email protected]
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    302 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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?

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        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.

  • @[email protected]
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    222 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    relentlessly discriminate against an entire minority > “that’s just our culture!” > pretty shit culture

  • @[email protected]
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    Phhss, Amateurs! Real men are not afraid of homosexuality; they ban the movie for the scary dots in the water! 😤

    9dash

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

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    32 years ago

    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…

  • @[email protected]
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    172 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    22 years ago

    They probably saw all the vibrant colors in the movie trailers and immediately fixated on “gay”…