I hope that they feel good about themselves watching it. Like I don’t know, I feel like there’s some sort of relief in this movie in that the message ultimately is you’re good. You’re good as you are. You are enough just as you are. You’re crushing it. - Margot Robbie
“How much strength does it take to hurt a little girl?” she asked. “How much strength does it take for the girl to get over it? Which one of them do you think is stronger?”
“Ken wouldn’t do that to Barbie, it’s out of character!” Babes, that is the point.
Ken and his discovery of the patriarchy and the way it changes him is the exact same as what happens with adolescent boys. You have these guys who were so close to you, wether through friendship or family become people thatthey aren’t due to both peer pressure and the desire to hold power. Especially with the whole “podcast bro” thing he had going on in the Ken Dojo Casa House scene, Ken represents all the boys that lean into the patriarchy and change for the worst.
Ken was always so sweet, he was stupid and lovable and would do anything for Barbie. Then he got roped into toxic masculinity and all of a sudden he was cruel and pretentious. This is the same path that many of the guys I was friends with as a kid fell down. Barbie represents growing up as a woman and Ken represents growing up as a man.
I had a guy tell me, about Barbie, “I’m not really it’s target audience. I’ll see Oppenheimer though.” And I’m probably more irritated than I should be but I’ve spent my whole damn life going to movies and reading books of which I am not the target audience. So when you tell me you’re not gonna drop an occasional 10 bucks to go out of your comfort zone and possibly experience something different, possibly something not about you (although Barbie is very much about you. You just don’t want to hear it). Well, that’s incredibly uninteresting to me.
my friend’s four-year-old son wouldn’t go to sleep because he wanted to keep looking at the stars and she tried to bribe him with a piece of chocolate and he just said “would you rather get a reward or be happy” and turned back to the window
Sweet. Crafty. Geekery. It's all that and a sack of potatoes.Hi, I'm Jennifer (She/They). I'm in my forties. This is where I parallel play with the Internet.
