 The government consider the film "defamation" and a "distortion" of its policy of sending people to re-education camps after 1975.The film was considered such a threat that the Ministry of Public Security's newspaper "Công an Nhân dân" featured an article (now through "vietbao.vn") warning about the "poisonous film" and claiming that "most overseas Vietnamese are indifferent or critical of this movie".The article also quoted Foundas and several random people in online message boards to bolster its claim.