#idk if this constitutes a review really but I love this movie a lot

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Just got back from watching the Barbie movie a second time and just. I love how deliberate everything about it feels. how even the jokes have a point. the gags with the CEO where his own self-importance and incompetence highlight each other perfectly.

Will Farrel commiting to climbing over and through a cubicle because he had the idea that it would be faster, meanwhile Margot Robbie's Barbie escapes? The way Allan's scene trying to use a chair to hop over a much shorter fence parallels and contrasts it because he listens when the Barbies tell him to just go around? (of course only after struggling a little bit more ily Allan)

This movie highlights at every turn how ego is an enemy to accomplishment and growth. We even see it in Ken's line where he says that he lost interest in Patriarchy once he found out it wasn't about horses—really that entire scene where he and Barbie finally talk is an ode to the harm that pride and especially ego can lead to.

Had the Kens supported each other instead of being catty and competitive, then Ryan Gosling's Ken wouldn't have been hit so hard with the loss of his biggest self-identifier.

This film is about actualization and humanity, about the importance of individualism, the death of ego, the fact that pride can exist without it. When the Nobel Prize winning Barbie says, "Thank you, I deserve this, I've earned it," that's pride without ego. She isn't saying, "I deserve this, and you don't." She's acknowledging that her skill has brought her to where she is, unlike the CEO or the Kens when Kendom was formed.

This movie is about so, so, so many things. It's about the struggle of womanhood, and acceptance, and objectification, and "the sisterhood," that Gloria speaks of, and the way Sasha has already learned to put other girls and women down by the age of twelve. It's about so many things all at once, and it does a wonderful job balancing it all.

#jay jabbers #Barbie #barbie movie #barbie movie spoilers #idk if this constitutes a review really but I love this movie a lot #the ego thing is just what I picked up on this second time that I watched it