'Consider taking action if there is insult or defamation of the movie Song of the South'

According to the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, bad information about the movie Đất rừng phương Nam (Song of the South) is not accurate and should be considered and handled if there is offensive or defamatory behavior.

At the questioning session of Government members on the afternoon of November 7, National Assembly delegate To Thi Bich Chau (Secretary of District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) asked Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to provide solutions to protect individuals and organizations when being attacked. abusive social network community.

Ms. Chau cited two recent examples: beauty queen Y Nhi was “stoned” just because of her insensitive statement, and the movie Song of the South “was beaten to a pulp by the online community”. “So who protects them at that time, how to protect them, or do we have to wait for them to complain, petition, or file an application. Suggestions like beating them to death rather than beating them to death are very dangerous,” Ms. Chau said, believes that this is related to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Information and Communications, and Police.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung said that the Ministry has issued a code of conduct for writers and artists doing art on social networks so that they behave in a standard manner.

He also said that the film Song of the South has been licensed by the National Film Appraisal Council in accordance with the Cinema Law. The film does not violate the law. “Public opinion believes that the film has one expression or another which is not accurate. It is necessary to consider handling if there is offensive or defamatory behavior,” Minister Nguyen Van Hung said.

Responding to this content, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said that by the end of this year, the Government will issue a decree on social network management, which regulates the handling of invasion of privacy online. and have institutions to support people who have been abused on social networks.

Recently, the Ministry has established a national fake news handling center. “I think it is necessary to set up provincial processing centers, because most life activities are in cyberspace,” he said.

The Minister of Information and Communications also proposed strict law enforcement and criminal handling of serious abuse cases, “such as the handling of Ms. Phuong Hang, which has a high deterrent effect.”

“The fundamental solution is to build a digital culture. Cyberspace is a new environment for humans. We have lived in the real environment for tens of thousands of years and still have problems, let alone just joining cyberspace.” about 20 years," Minister Nguyen Manh Hung said, adding that he has built a skills training platform and increased people’s resistance on social networks.

The film Song of the South, directed by Nguyen Quang Dung, was released in mid-October, revolving around the character of little An searching for his father amid the uprising against the French of Southerners in the early 20th century.

The story of gangs - including Thien Dia Hoi - is given a lot of time. After that, many opinions said that the film crew caused misunderstanding by elevating the role of Thien Dia Hoi. In an article shared more than 2,300 times on social networks, literature doctor Ha Thanh Van said that the fiction in the film “falsifies history”.

Citing documents, Ms. Ha Thanh Van stated that the Thien Dia Hoi’s anti-French patriotic movement took place in the South, but ended in 1916, after the uprising to save Phan Xich Long - who was revered as its leader. Cochinchina secret societies. In the novel by writer Doan Gioi, the story takes place during the resistance war against the French in the South, in 1945, without mentioning these groups. The film directed by Nguyen Quang Dung is set in the 1920s-1930s, adapted from the book.

After that, the producer edited the film, removing the names Thien Dia Hoi and Nghia Hoa Doan from the dialogue, replacing them with Chinh Nghia Hoi and Nam Hoa Doan. This change is to avoid viewers associating with two Chinese Qing Dynasty groups. The film puts the words “the film is inspired by the novel Đất rừng phương Nam by writer Doan Gioi” at the top.