#BUT KEN NEVER APOLOGISED TO BARBIE FOR TAKING OVER HER FUCKING HOUSE?!?!?!?

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also like. cannot help but lmao at people going ‘the barbie movie is too woke!!’ my dudes the barbie movie is doing everything that every other girl power movie has done for the last twenty years except this time when they talk about the patriarchy they use the word patriarchy.

#barbie (2023) #barbie movie #just to be clear i liked the movie!! #but uh. #SPOILERS IN LIKE FIVE TAGS #DON’T CLICK TO EXPAND THE TAGS IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THIS I CAN’T DO READMORES ON MOBILE #five #four #three #two #one #the fact that barbie apologised to ken (valid tbh) #BUT KEN NEVER APOLOGISED TO BARBIE FOR TAKING OVER HER FUCKING HOUSE?!?!?!? #oooohh i was mad. #anyway good on barbie for self-actualising and getting a vagina

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Let me preface this by saying, I LOVE BARBIE. I’ve loved Barbie for a long time and she is a quintessential part of my child hood. The first website I learned to go to was barbie.com, I learned how to sew to make my barbie little outfits out of scraps, my sister and I have had our own running plot with our barbies, and to me she has always been a symbol of confidence, femininity and fun. 

So it is sad for me to say that I didnt really enjoy the Barbie movie. I thought the sets, sounds, acting was great! But i thought the plot was a cacophony of mixed messages. The story when examined in parts was good but made no sense as a whole narrative. Like did we address at all about the concerns America Ferrera’s daughter raised in the cafeteria about the current image of Barbie, we never had Ken apologise for taking over Barbie’s house and world, is this what we want young women to see, that its okay for a guy to take everything you love and then you apologise for making him feel insecure.

The best scene imo was the scene with the older lady and Barbie at the bus stop and barbie calling her beautiful was made pointless coz literally 20 mins later shes on the floor saying she’s the stereotypical barbie she has no skills and only her looks. The monologues to break the brainwashing were almost comical coz they felt very feminism 101 and a bad explanation of how they had no immunity to the brainwashing because they had never experienced it was stupid. And as a solution instead of showing any nuance on how patriarchy hurts not only women but men too and that we should always aspire for equality in the Barbie world we end with a weird supposed “mirror” image of our world where the Ken’s have to occupy lower level positions and maybe they’ll work their way up, what kinda message is that!? 

And to top it all off, the ending after we’ve had barbie just come to terms with who she is and what she wants to do (ie be in the human world) instead of showing her going to do some work to rehabilitate her image for the younger audience who are maybe disenfranchised, no we end on a fucking gynaecologist joke. 

tldr really good in parts but as a whole every movie in the animated Barbie cinematic universe has a better plot than this one 

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