Worst part is this at the end of the article.
Another person said: “I think the director and the investors behind it should all be punished.”
What a nation of excessive government overreach. It is one thing to ban the movie, but then to try to jail everyone involved in such a matter of fact way just shows how draconian their citizens can be.
The film has been boasting that it is the adaptation of the “true story” of a woman who killed her husband by accident while fighting against his long-term domestic violence.
The verdict in Zhao’s trial found that she used a fruit knife to stab her husband to death
No domestic violence was mentioned in the actual verdict, in contrast to Zhao’s persona in the film, that of a heroine resisting domestic violence.
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. This is against the law because the China Prison Law stipulates that all prison activities must only serve the goal of education.
Slayyy (your husband, with a fruit knife) Queen
What is it with Western Media constantly glazing Chinese scammers?
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.
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
The ML is thick in this room
What is ML?
In a nutshell: fauxmunist who loves state capitalism.
Ah, I see. It refers to the lemmy.ml instance, I take it?
ML is short for Marxism-Leninism, the ideology developed by Stalin (without the involvement of Marx or Lenin) which recommends purges and genocide to ensure sufficient loyalty to the state while the state guides society towards communism out of the goodness of its heart.
And which says the goodness of the state is ensured because communist dictators and high officials don’t legally own the nation so they have no incentive to exploit anyone for their own benefit or accumulation of power.
According to MLs, North Korea is doing great, withstanding a fierce capitalist onslaught that is corrupting its citizens with promises of food security. I don’t know how they explain the difference with China.
afaik, lemmy.ml was registered to the Mali internet domain because its founders are MLs and wanted the “.ml”.
Just making shit up when you can ask hundreds of communists.
I’ve asked lots of communists. Just the sort of communists that ML states invariably want to exterminate. You know, the weirdos that want to abolish private and state property and stop people from being alienated from their labor.
Yes but not exclusively. People who are willing to doubt a victim of domestic violence when it paints China as a baddie. Yet if she was “western,” they would be condemning the country without question.
We’re doubting her because the domestic violence didn’t come up in the court verdict dumbass, not because it makes China look bad.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/is-china-domestic-violence-law-working/
https://www.boell.de/en/2025/09/10/when-masculinity-hurts-domestic-violence-china
It looks like domestic abuse is purposely ignored in China. You bringing this up now makes China look way worse. Congratulations!
Nice alt account
Do you have a different take?
Not one I’m willing to share with someone like you. 🤡🪙
Yeah no you’re right, shutting up and leaving oxygen for the people with more knowledge on the subject is the right call.
You do realise that this is a text based conversation right? Contributing or not has no impact on oxygen use. I understand using hyperbole to be witty, but that only works if you, y’know, have wit.
Its a metaphor.
Not a very good one.
Its such a common metaphor either english isn’t your first language or you aren’t reading at a high-school level.
I’m not the one simping for an abuser
I haven’t made any strong statements on whether the guy she stabbed abused her.
I pointed out that the court didn’t mention abuse, but did only give her 15 years, which could be me reading into it too much, but could imply the court believed there was some mitigating circumstances and she didn’t just murder him in cold blood.
But that’s more nuance than immediately dropping my pants and jerking off while grunting “China Bad” so I see why you wouldn’t pick up on it.
15 years seems pretty long for a sentence outside of the US, but I don’t know what the average would be in China. I’m just aware that our sentencing structure is ridiculously long for no good reason.
