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China film about woman whose killing of husband framed as result of domestic violence banned (www.scmp.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to c/world@quokk.au

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is it with Western Media constantly glazing Chinese scammers?

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not going to entirely discard her claims of abuse given that the court gave her such a lenient sentence.

But also definitely not the girl boss being punished by misogynists for defending herself that western media want her to be.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

It's more this bit

they obtained the approval from the prison to let Zhao play in the film by saying that they were preparing a “documentary” But what they produced turned out to be a commercial film

And then dressing it up as state censorship