A source told Variety that the lines in question - “journey lines” - often represent a main character’s journey in kids’ media, though lead actor Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig remain tight-lipped about the film’s plot. “The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the ‘real world.’ It was not intended to make any type of statement.” Vietnam regulators argue that the dashes on the side of the cartoonish map depict the “nine-dash line,” a border that upholds China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea and infringes on Vietnam’s territorial sovereignty. “The map in Barbie Land is a childlike crayon drawing,” a spokesperson for the Warner Bros. After a scene from the film’s trailer depicting a hand-drawn map of the “real world” led Vietnam to ban the film, Warner Bros. Barbie might be everything, but she’s not a master of foreign policy and international diplomacy.
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