China censors Tarantino's 'Django unchained'

The movie passes 'Django unchainedby Quentin Tarantino were suspended at the last minute in theaters in China. They justified the cancellation on ridiculous "technical reasons." Some users have said on a popular Chinese social network that the film was shown for a few minutes.

A netizen named Xue Yi Dao said online that "After he started, he stopped!" And added that some employees of the cinema then entered the room and explained that the censors had decided to delay their projection.

According to the official Xinhua agency, the Shanghai cinema chain "Ultimate Movie Experience (UME)" confirms that it suspended the broadcast of the production of Quentin Tarantino in its rooms, as well as the sale of tickets. The cancellation order was given by the importer of the film China Film Group Corporation ». It is unknown when the film will be able to be seen, if it can finally be screened.

The news has not been surprising, since days before it was already rumored that the film could suffer the scissors of censorship. Apparently, censors don't like a scene with a male frontal nude (from Django himself) and not the violent tone of the Tarantino movie. All films that are broadcast in China are first subjected to the scrutiny of the regime's censoring apparatus, which decides whether to reject them, broadcast them in their entirety or eliminate a scene, normally related to sex or violence. However, Tarantino's film has been sold for months - without censorship - in most of the many DVD stores in the country, as users of Chinese social networks claim.