In the skin of information. What you need to know about Disney’s “Little Mermaid”, still at the heart of the controversy

Released for a week in theaters, it continues to make waves, this news Little Mermaid from Disney. Directed by Rob Marshall in “live action”, this great classic is a hit in the United States, with 117 million dollars generated. In France, we can speak of a moderate success with 450,000 admissions only in one week. But in China, it’s a real shipwreck: it’s the worst start for a Disney studio film with the Chinese public…

racist messages

It must be said that, since 2019, since the revelation of the cast of the film, the main character, embodied by the black American actress Halle Bailey, has attracted human stupidity and the wrath of the most racist and reactionary commentators on social networks.

And it continues. So much so that the Allociné site was forced to publish an unprecedented warning on the sheet calling on readers to beware of the ratings assigned to the film. Opinions obviously not really very objective, more related to the skin color of the actress than to the quality of the realization and the acting. According to site officials, dozens of accounts even had to be banned because of their comments.