#barbie the film

[cherrylaw]

[natalyillustration]

Barbie 💖

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Hi Barbie!

[wearingaberetinparis]

Hello sweethearts!

I’ll get back to answering your asks later tonight! I’m leaving for the cinema (*insert Harry Styles’ song here*) to attend a Barbie Night and see the film I’m been dying to see for weeks!

Yes, I’m a Barbie girl and so excited for the Ken-rgy too!

[lucile-little-universe]

Hi Barbie !!!

I think back to this little girl that I was, who was humiliated because I liked pink. Seriously, society associates pink with girls but when you grow up, people mock you if you wear it. So I make this little artwork : basically I took the profil side of Billie I made in the post before and I draw mine into it. I believe that in each Barbie yiu can found a little kid who loved to play with it.

I loved the aesthetic and the concept of taking a stereotypical doll, the archetype of the woman objectified by society and under the patriarchy and using her to criticize the patriarchy.

[ghost-in-the-corner]

Also, props to Allan???

He's a doll most people have never heard of. He got discontinued forever ago cause he was perceived as gay by consumers and they didn't like that.

But I love that he had an actual role in Barbie. He was very queer coded, yeah, but he didn't like when all the Kens turned to Patriarchy. He was so uncomfortable that he wanted to abandon Barbieland all together. He knew it was wrong.

And then he helped the Barbies get themselves back. He had a pink jumpsuit and sunglasses and went out all stealthy to get the Barbies in the van. He even voted at the end to keep the constitution the way it was.

Big Allan fan over here.

[maxxxines]

BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

[loren91]

I made the t-shirt design I wanted, so it's on Teepublic if anyone else wants it too or whatever

[kattahj]

The Barbie movie isn't about girl power. It's not about how women can do everything they set their mind to. It's about how sometimes women are tired and average and that has to be okay too, because you don't have to do everything to be worth anything. (And that this is also true of men.)

[filmloversociety]

In Barbie (2023), directed by Greta Gerwig, Ken says he wants to spend the night with Barbie because they're boyfriend and girlfriend and when she asks him "to do what?", he replies "I'm actually not sure". This is a perfect analogy to kids playing with Barbie dolls, as they know that couples "do things" but are too young to know exactly what. In this essay I will

[reprehensible-ghost]

Is this anything?

The hanged man tarot card can often symbolize wisdom and enlightenment through sacrifice. Thought it was fitting for Barbie :)

[robotpussy]

The Kens (and Allan) of Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023)

[dua-source]

BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

[peridot-tears]

Truths that Co-Exist

Barbie (2023) is a giant product placement that profits off nostalgia.

The writing is profound and life-changing and understands why we seek nostalgia in a way most nostalgia-driven entertainment doesn’t.

The film is self-aware about how even now, Barbie dolls set incredibly unrealistic beauty standards. Their “body diversity” does not even scratch the surface of what that phrase really means. I don’t expect this to change.

The film still made a beautiful statement with the scene on the bench about how societal beauty standards are narrow and restrictive! And that beauty comes from experiencing life and the marks it leaves on you!

Its feminist statements are validating. Many of us see our reality onscreen, and the great thing is that it includes how cishet men fall down a pipeline of toxic hypermasculinity. It also shows the solution, and allows men to express themselves despite what society expects them to be.

The film is a capitalist venture.

The cast (aside from the leads) and crew were probably overworked and severely underpaid during filmmaking.

We can still appreciate that something fun was made, and we all made another wonderful memory where we and our loved ones went to the movies color-matching in pink.

We should not feel guilty about seeing ourselves in this film.

Meanwhile, support the WGA and SAG-Aftra strike.

[lucile-little-universe]

The polymer clay necklace/earrings I made when I went to see Barbie ! It's my itinial's name based on Barbie font.

Can you tell pink is my fav color ? 😊

[ghost-in-the-corner]

One thing I appreciate about Barbie was the emphasis on age.

I was emotional when Barbie told the old woman how beautiful she was, and when Ruth came in and helped her become human.

It was also the fact that America Ferrera was the one having the crisis that caused Barbie to do the same.

The whole concept of the toy doesn't end in childhood. Cause she is an idea; Barbie is forever. She's everything. She's meant to inspire women to keep going for what they dream. You don't age out of these ideas, they grow with you, just like how Margot Robbie grew with America Ferrera.