VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Cinema Agency has banned “Bay Cap 3”, a product by Vietnamese American director Le Van Kiet, from local screens.
“Bay Cap 3” may be banned from local cinemas




MegaStar, the distributor of the movie in Vietnam, received the agency’s ban on May 8. Earlier, a member of the National Movie Censorship Council disclosed that the movie was not approved by censors.

MegaStar’s Chair, Mr. Brian Hall, said that the distributor respects the Vietnam Cinema Agency’s decision.

A survey conducted by an online newspaper shows that around 60 percent of readers agreed with the ban.

“I have always agreed with the censorship’s decision. It is another matter that people can watch banned movies through pirated disks. That’s not the job of censors. Let’s review banned movies. Why were they banned? If you watched pirated disks, you would understand why,” said Ms. Mai Lan, from HCM City.

A reader wrote: “Watching this film’s trailer, I think that it completely does not fit with the current life in Vietnam and it is non-educational, especially when teen crime is on the rise. It is unsuitable to screen this movie in Vietnam now.”

Blogger Trung Rwo wrote: “I support the ban of Bay Cap 3. It is unacceptable to see violent scenes in a movie for teens. Normally, characters in this kind of movie are often at least university students, not high school students.”

Some made careful comments since they had not watched the full movie yet. “I think that interesting movies, even though they have sex or violent scenes, will be still welcomed by the audience. It is acceptable to cut off sensitive scenes, which are inappropriate to Vietnamese culture. Banning a movie must be very carefully considered and it needs public evaluation because each movie is cost a lot of money and the effort of hundreds of people,” wrote Duong Binh Nguyen, a reporter.

Actors Truong Nam Thanh, Baggio and Hoang Oanh, who played in the movie, said that the film “does not have any overly-hot scene.”

“Bay Cap 3” is the third movie that was banned in Vietnam so far this year, after Ghost Rider 2 and The Hunger Games.

Producers of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” managed to introduce this product in Vietnam, but director David Fincher and Sony Pictures were afraid that if many sex and violent scenes in this movie is cut off, the content will be misunderstood. Thus, this movie has not been distributed in Vietnam and some Asian countries.

Thanh Van