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okay I wanna talk about why I personally started bawling my eyes out during this movie, cause I've seen some comments about "oh did we watch the same movie" "what barbie did u watch lmao". and don't get me wrong, it was extremely fun and wonderful movie, but what really got me was the whole montage part, with the footage/montage about girlhood. cause the movie obviously has a lot of very straight forward points about western feminism (I assume it's so on the nose for a mix of humour and the fact that the main demographic IS younger kids who would be learning about this kind of thing for the first time) but that scene felt significant to the older part of the audience, cause it's the moment where barbie steps out of the mold shes always been put in to by the people who market her, by the people playing with her etc etc. which is something I think a lot of women and afab people only learn after years of trying to grasp up at the tantalus fig tree of an unrealistic standard we're held to.
women, much like barbie, are pretty much often seen as a product. if companies can cash in on feminism, they'll run a million actors in business suits and football gear to sell what they need to. so off the bat seeing a woman who literally is a product pushed by men learn on her own terms that she doesn't have to hold herself to that unrealistic idea of perfection was really cool.
When she asks Ruth something along the lines of "don't I need your permission?" and Ruth responds "to what? be human?" (I'm paraphrasing cause I've seen it once a couple hours ago) THAT hit especially hard, cause being fem presenting constantly feels like asking for a permission, to take up space, to live, to sit at the table and eat the food we've been told to make, and that moment felt like a very personal message where I was being told specifically that I don't have to be sorry or look for permission to just exist in the space i occupy y'know?
And then for me personally through the lense of being afab non binary, watching that girlhood montage felt very emotional, cause I do still feel a tie to my femininity and the community within women spaces, but I know I cant partake in it fully if I ever want to be comfortable and happy within myself, y'know? so it's like this odd grief? almost? to the small "girl" I used to be, and a little bit of letting go, understanding I don't need permission to exist as I am, even if others have their expectations of me I'm human just like everyone else. it felt like a last apology to someone I've never given it to, which is myself, both younger and present for holding them to sometimes unachievable standards and harsh words.
so yeah I cried like a little baby iwl
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I would like to give a shout out to Morbius for a) making the "magic cure all" in fact not all that magical--it literally makes the disease worse unless Michael is feeding on blood/the blood substitute and b) having Martine visibly care for and love Michael as he was before he was superhuman. You literally cannot convince me that the only reason they weren't together before that was Michael's own insecurities, and Martine being a respectful person and not pushing it on him (even freaking Milo saw it from his fancy penthouse apartment).
Anyway, Michael Morbius is the soft emo antihero I need in my life, and he deserves only nice things from here on out, thank you.
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The scene in the Barbie trailer when Barbie is skating around with Ken and asks "Why is everyone staring at me?"
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE AN ADOLESCENT GIRL.
Living in Barbieland (childhood girlhood) but then suddenly you're all grown up in the real world subject to scrutiny and sexualisation (the guy slapping Barbie's ass) and feeling like existing is a crime?
Being forced by adult men into a box (which leads to the not like other girls syndrome) and exploring the 'real world' (being forced to grow up too quickly) while fighting the realisation that maybe the world sucks and being a woman is so difficult while hoping with all your heart that it's not always going to be this way.
Losing touch with the very things that made you happy because they're considered immature and girly? (The group of teens that said they hadn't played with Barbies since they were five.)
Older women telling you that you have to learn the truth about the world and that you can never have your old life back (Kate Mckinnon's Barbie) despite it being the only thing you yearn for, but also older women being a bright spot and support (the old woman on the bench) in the endless slough of life.
And this is just the trailer!!! I'm so excited for this movie I can't breathe, Greta Gerwig the woman that you are 😭
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twitter saying margot robbie is mid and a 7/10 is such a twitter thing of them to do
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Everyone freaking out bc they just saw the director confess to MURDERING THE QUEEN!!
Nimona and Ballister:
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