What you need to know:
Although no character in ‘Barbie’ publicly identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ community, Lebanon will ban the tape for inciting homosexuality.
And today in news that seems to be from the year 1930… The ‘Barbie’ movie has been a success at the box office, so much so that three weeks after its world premiere, the director Greta Gerwig has already become the first female director to gross over $1 billion. with a movie
For days we have seen how almost everyone has fallen in love with the ‘Barbie’ movie, well movie theaters have been filled with pink and people have not hesitated to buy anything that references the movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
Lebanon will not release the ‘Barbie’ movie in theaters
However, not everyone in the world has been able to enter the ‘Barbie’ fever. Such is the case of people Lebanon, an Arab country that canceled the premiere of the film in theaters for considering that the story promotes homosexuality. What?!
Yes, you read that right. Although literally no character in the story openly identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ community, the Lebanese authorities ordered that the premiere of ‘Barbie’, scheduled for August 31, does not occur in theaters in the country.
The authorities of that country say that the tape incites homosexuality
This is how the National News Agency (ANN) of said country, which explained that the order not to project ‘Barbie’ in theaters came from Mohamed Murtada, minister of culture who assured the story of the famous doll goes against the moral and religious values of Lebanon.
“(Barbie) It promotes homosexuality and transgenderism, and encourages the ugly idea of refusing custody from the father, belittling the role of the mother and ridiculing it. Questioning the need for marriage and forming a family”, Murtada said.
‘Barbie’ violates the moral and religious values of Lebanon
The Lebanese minister assured that showing the ‘Barbie’ movie will be quite serious, especially for the boys and girls of the country, who will suffer “the worst effects and consequences” of seeing content that does not go with the values that are preached in Lebanon.
The news has come as a bit of a surprise, as Lebanon is more open-minded than other Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is even punishable by the death penalty. However, this second country does have plans to bring ‘Barbie’ to theaters (at least for now).
Although none of the ‘Barbie’ characters comment on their sexual orientation
In addition to that – and as we mentioned at the beginning – it is somewhat ironic that the ‘Barbie’ movie incites homosexuality, considering that They are just dolls and dolls that live in a fictional world. (Most of the tape is in ‘Barbieland’).
It only makes sense to us that they refer to the appearance of characters like Allan who people just THINK are part of the LGBTQ+ community for not being like the Kens, since at no time is it mentioned that Michael Cera’s character is gay.
Now each one. What do you think about it? Could it be that Lebanon is exaggerating or does a movie about dolls really represent a great risk for its society?
