"The fear of being labelled feminist is real": Barbie movie flops in South Korea

While Barbie continues to achieve

box office

success around the world,

the film's performance

in South Korea

has been

lacklustre

, with critics

citing

a reluctance to embrace a feminist-themed foreign movie.

Barbie sold just over 460,000 tickets

between 19 July, when it hit screens locally, according to the Korean Film Council.

The film's opening weekend received only an 8% share of total box office revenue and just 3.9%

for the second weekend.In comparison,

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has sold over 3.6m tickets

since its release on 12 July.

重點詞匯釋義：

box office 票房;售票處

lacklustre 單調(diào)的;枯燥乏味的;無趣味的;

citing 引用;援引;列舉;引述;舉出;提及;傳喚;傳訊;cite的現(xiàn)在分詞

譯文： “被貼上女權(quán)主義者標簽的恐懼是真實的”：芭比電影在韓國失敗

盡管《芭比》繼續(xù)在世界各地取得票房成功，但該片在韓國的表現(xiàn)一直乏善可陳，評論家們表示不愿接受一部以女權(quán)主義為主題的外國電影。根據(jù)韓國電影委員會的數(shù)據(jù)，《芭比》在7月19日上映期間售出了46萬多張電影票。這部電影的首映周僅占總票房收入的8%，第二個周末僅占3.9%。這部電影的首映周末僅占總票房收入的8%相比之下，《碟中諜-致命清算（上）》自7月12日上映以來已售出360多萬張門票。 來自衛(wèi)報（The Guardian）