#simu liu ken >>>>

[the-navistar-carol]

Saw the Barbie movie. Cried three times. Laughed at the camp. Highly recommend

[lentendays]

"It looks like I'm getting a tax cut. And I don't need it - people like me should pay more taxes. Taxes for people earning under 350k are going up - 95% of Americans. [...] This is to hold me accountable, anything I get from the cut, I'll give to charity."

[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.

[shutupcrime]

Ranking the Kens in Barbie based on overall ‘kenergy’

1. Ken

- little cowboy hat

- doctor who

- just misses his best friend barbie 🥹

8.5 out of Ken

2. Ken

- less fun lil cowboy hat

- gets to be douche bro president Ken

- related to Chris evans maybe?

- gives Ryan gosling a lil kiss

5 out of Ken

3. Ken

- back flipping Ken

- excellent dancer

- gives serious steal ur girl energy

- possibly the most sexually aggressive of all the Kens (I am referencing his interactions with Ryan Gosling Ken exclusively, the energy was palpable)

- served some mad cunt

9 out of Ken

4. Ken

- possibly my favourite Ken

- always has Ken’s back

- very goofy dancer 💜

- played drums when all the other Ken’s played guitar

- recipient of the holy pimp coat

- almost certainly in love with his best friend Ken

10 out of Ken

5. Ken

- THE Ken

- he’s kenough 🥲

- lost interest in the patriarchy when he found out it wasn’t about horses

- instigated the greatest out of nowhere dance number in a film I’ve ever seen

- buuuuuuuut also enslaved a bunch of women so…

-10 out of Ken (still love him tho)

[barbiethemovie]

[fallingwallsh]

Barbie leaves you this feeling of melancholy you can’t take out of your chest, and being there with all those girls dressed in pink was so wholesome that I wanted to cry

Greta gerwig really has magic in her mind and I love her so much

[tangirlisfangirl]

here have some kens cheering for you on your dash, you deserve it (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*✲ﾟ*｡⋆

[joeyhazell-art]

Come on Barbie lets go party 🎉👱‍♀️💞🌸🐴

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[umuulandito]

for me, the way i viewed the conversation between the old woman and barbie on the bench is also a matter of confidence.

when you compare the barbies in barbieland and the old woman on the bench, they practically say the same thing ("i'm beautiful") but their confidence and the core and roots behind it is so different.

the barbies in barbieland are confident out of ignorant, they have nothing to not be confident about. they're made of plastic, they have no cellulite, no private parts; it's always perfect in barbieland, so their hair is always perfect, their clothes, their shoes, everything is perfect. there's no bad day, no prejudice, no standards that you can't be part of in barbieland. so when the barbies say "i'm beautiful", they say it because they're ignorant. the core of their confidence is ignorance.

but when the old woman responds to barbie with "i know" to the "you're beautiful" comment, the confidence she has has a completely different core than the barbies. the old woman is the antithesis of everything you should be in barbieland. she's old, she has wrinkles, crow's feet, white hair, no hair. she has all of these qualities that our society will say is not beautiful, is ugly that these are things you avoid with skincare, retinol, botox all these things. the old woman lives in a society where the mass will not view her as beautiful.

and yet she's still confident, she still says "i know" because despite what everyone says, what all the standards are, she knows she's beautiful. thousands of people can disagree and say she's not, it won't matter because she knows she is. the old woman is confident despite knowing.

[lands-of-fantasy]

Barbie (2023)

Character Posters

[jodielandons]

SIMU LIU as KEN | Barbie (2023)

@lgbtqcreators creator bingo | free choice

[weclassybouquetfun]

Let's hear it for the boys Kens!

What an homage.

At the end of Ryan's performance he pulls a necklace out of his shirt and kisses it. I assume it's the necklace he had made for his partner Eva Mendes.

You better be home soon.

[helloclancy]

humans only have one ending, ideas live forever.

Barbie, 2023 dir. Greta Gerwig Collaboration Soundtrack with various artists

[sunshineandlyrics]

Thank you Ryan for bringing the Kenergy (10 March 2024)

[margueritedaisies]

Tried my hands on doodling my three faves after watching Barbie. Listen tho I think these three should date🏖️🏄‍♂️🩴✨