In Defence Of Barbie: What All The Rage is Really About
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Does Barbie deserve more love, and why is it that some reviewers reacted so negatively? I give my honest opinion on the film, and whether or not I think it's worth watching, including people's misinterpretations of Greta Gerwig's message and the hate towards casting Margot Robbie.
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Ryan gosling was just sooooo adorable as ken, perfect casting
He’s the cutest
I think some people are getting way too dramatic about this movie. You’re right, it’s not that deep. It’s not some “man hating movie with a dark agenda.” As if a movie about a doll made initially for little girls has to uplift men? It’s a dang Barbie movie, of course Barbie is going to be the main character.
Exactly, what are they gonna do- call it “Ken?” 😂
@@SerenaSkybourne I read that there's gonna be a Ken spin-off film
And it does offer an uplifting message for men too, in my opinion.
Ken realizes that his idea of patriarchy didn't make him happy, and he eventually learns to find an identity of his own instead of being hung up on Barbie's attention/rejection and competition with other Kens.
Sure he's still pretty much disenfranchised in Barbie world but at the end of the movie he has much more potential to feel fulfilled and actively participate in the world compared to the start.
And just like you said, one of the main points for me is that it's not about them. It's about us.
I'm not surprised some men don't want to accept that but they can either learn self-love or die mad about it, because we don't need them to come around to topple the patriarchy, as has been shown by the Barbies.
@@meeomelovescookiesandhisto459 not only that, the only guys I think that will love the Barbie movie are the ones that grew up being surrounded by women like they might have had a strong female role model in their lives or had sisters and no brothers in their lives
Yes! And of course it is going to uplift women, but Ken was uplifted too. The whole point of his arc was realizing he was an accessory to Barbie and realizing he could be more, but he had to realize he couldn't just get things handed to him because he was a man (he needed hard work and skills like a medical degree to become a doctor) and in the end, he had to learn he was enough and didn't need Barbie to exist. People are just misinterpreting his arc in the film. Plus Barbie apologized to him for taking him for granted. The film offered him sympathy in the end instead of completely villianizing him which is more than what can be said for most female characters in similar roles.
I really enjoyed the clever jokes in the film. For example, Ken's favourite songs on the radio being brought back later and the Ken's singing Push on the beach. I can't believe anyone would say Margot Robbie wasn't well suited for Barbie, especially because she isn't attractive enough 🤨
That was the last thing I would ever be expecting to hear from someone.😅 That's just one more prove that we'll never be enough for the society, so we'd better be just ourselves and not care what they say.
This movie really broke me to the core. So many issues that women face, so many issues that i had to face, my friends, people i know..
The immediate sexualization of Barbie, people touching her without consent, Barbie just breaking down, her insecurities, her need for "perfection", etc, are all just a few situations women and girls face in real life. Seeing her go through all of that really broke me. And i love how she didn't know what she wanted. I always felt that everyone around me knew what they wanted, but i never did.
+ i love the themes of Barbie and her friends sticking together. And also appreciated the touch on how young teen boys can fall into the wrong direction, just like how Ken did. It also shows how men/boys are expected to behave.
The movie is filled with metaphors, and i loved every second of it. So many women came out of the theater so emotional and some of them were crying.
Greta Gerwig did an amazing job on this one.
All my local theaters were basically sold out this weekend so I haven't been able to see it. I am looking forward to it when there's seats available. All you had to tell me was it's Great Gerwig directed.
i nearly missed out too because everything was sold out! crazy
I bought mine a month in advance! It was packed in there!
The takeaway message that I got was 'you are you and you are enough' which I wish someone had told me a long time ago.
Completely agree about not taking the movie so seriously!! I think everyone is forgetting it’s a COMEDY. Generally in comedies the idea is to exaggerate things and create irony, not to change the world and provide some big political message 🙄
Ok well guess it's fine for men to start making movies where women are all idiots and sex objects again for comedy since all the men were morons in barbie. Just remember not to take it so seriously.
The only thing I didn't like is that they made Ken sound like an incel (in his song "where I see love she sees a friend") As if friendly love is somehow worth less than romantic love
People should just take it as a comedy movie and stop obsessing over how "woke" it may or may not be. Ken was always in the shadow of Barbie , that's the way the toys were created. First Barbie, then Ken came along, but he wasn't needed. He was just there. And it has nothing to do with men in general
The guy who likes to learn languages in the movie, the woman's husband is actually American Ferrera's husband, the actess who plays the main character. I think it was supposed to be like a fun cameo rather than a character
Great video but hun…. It’s defense. Not DEFENCE.
You have some great critiques of the role reversal male characters being purposefully under developed. But the overall message of the film is too direct and pointless. Women today can do any career. There are no legal limits to what jobs women can do or how they craft their lives.
depends which part of the world you're talking about
If it is a role reversal, you should be able to give examples of movies that portray women as evil dumb predators who are responsible for all issues in our society. But of course no such movie has ever been made
@@SerenaSkybourneI live in Romania which is a 2nd world, largely conservative country. I see you guys in the US catch a few female perpetrators of r ape every month e.g. Jaqueline Ma teacher of the year, Leigh Felton, Ellen Shell teacher, Andie Rosafort, Andrea Serrano, Jennifer Hawkins just to name a few recent ones. Here we don't have a single media reported case of a woman comitting such a crime in a lifetime. We do not yet catch or sentence women for DV, SA and especially r ape. Despite how developing countries are portrayed by western media, statistics and most metrics show us a different reality, for example life expectancy is 8 years longer for women (compared to 5 in the US) here. There are many other examples, and I would like to know which countries treat women worse than men except maybe Iran?
@@Michael-r3dEven when the kens were in their "villain arc", they were portrayed as goofballs and they were comically funny. If a guy did a gender reversal (wouldn't make sense), I guarantee you he will just make the women straight up unlikable and evil. Like even the kens had an epic cool dancing battle sequence
To anyone complaining that it's "anti male" did we watch the same movie? Because even when Ken was in his "villain arc", he was portrayed as a goofball cheesy type and he was funny, it's not that serious at all trust me. That and when Barbie apologizes to Ken lmao. The kens were even given an epic dancing battle sequence and an original song
All the kens and real world men were written as dumber than the barbies and real world women and morally worse. It was man hating. Well guess men can get back to writing women as bimbos and sex objects as women clearly dont give a shit about being offensive to men, so why should men care?
Why is barbie land restablished with female rule at the end then?
@@samlerf and it says overtime the males will be there too, it's literally the same in the real world - just opposite. It's also a silly satirical movie in the first place and snowflakes with little egos like y'all got offended
I found what they said about Margot Robbies clothes pretty interesting. We had a whole series of movies (legally blonde) about how clothes don't define you or your intelligence yet we are still having the same conversations. I think it's internalised I have a series of interviews lined up and yesterday I was shopping for an outfit and the blouse that wasn't oversized was bright pink and I actually thought I can't wear that it's not appropriate they won't take me seriously but the colour is irrelevant to my capabilities.
Also as if anyone can say margot is mid 😂 x
That is an interesting story, thanks for sharing! If I’d been in the same situation, I think I’d have seen that pink top and just like Elle from Legally Blonde seen the color only as a plus! I don’t think I’ve ever really bought into the idea of internalized misogyny where the color pink is seen as a negative thing that implies anything negative about a woman’s character or abilities, but I also understand that some women’s negative experiences might lead her to feel that way. I just wear the color anyway because I enjoy it! And pink is for everyone too, not just girls and women, but boys and men can also wear pink, because it’s just a color! I was so happy to see so many people embracing the color pink for this Barbie movie! We need more people questioning why we put such negative connotations onto simple colors in the first place! Pink for all! 💗
I loved how cartoony and unserious barbieland was with things like Allan building a wall upwards, the car not having an engine and when Ken was throwing Barbie’s clothes away it would freeze in the air
Omg the upwards wall I forgot about that 💀 that was the funniest thing ever
@@SerenaSkybourne like the Allan and the worker had the spirt just got confused. But also like maybe kens would be to stupid to realize they could walk around it🙃
Alan wasn’t building the wall, wtf? lol
I think Ken and Barbie didn’t end up together because it kind of mirrors real-life. Barbie’s creator, Ruth Handler, never meant for Barbie to have a boyfriend but little girls at that time kept sending letters asking for a boyfriend for Barbie. So Ken was created. The truth is Ken was always really seen as just an accessory initially. I think this movie did a good job showing us that Ken can be more than just Barbie’s “boyfriend,” something Ken himself also needed to realize in this movie. Rumor has it Ken might get a spin-off film and I hope that happens just so it could explore that point further.
I really hope we get a Ken sequel too because that would make a lot of sense because the Barbie Movie felt like there was more to the story, and maybe they were holding back character arc and development for a sequel.
I saw people mad about the age difference between Margot and Ryan because they were love interests (when they weren’t) or people upset that barbie and Ken didn’t get together, and all this negativity around them wanting the two to be romantic and they’re NOT and we never get any signals from barbie EVER that she is remotely romantically interested in Ken, and even so she’s still kind to him even when he keeps overstepping her boundaries and stuff, and people still want them to be together??? Babe that’s not what barbie WANTS
@explodingmangos3416 42 and 33 sounds really good age wise wtf where they upset about? I guess barbie should've been a 20 year old in their view. Barbie has been a doctor scientist astronauts etc she doesn't need to be 20
@@explodingmangos3416 You do know it's only because it's Barbie lore cannon that Barbie and Ken are always boyfriend/girlfriend and they've never not been boyfriend/girlfriend except in this movie, right? That's why they want that it's only because it's always been like that and only this movie changed the cannon to be that Barbie has never liked Ken. They didn't even say they were ex's or anything. Just completely rewrote their characters. That's why people are upset about that.
@@loverrlee they never said they wanted a breakup. If anything it felt natural and even healthy for a couple to have some time apart! Which is good: ken and barbie wanted to grow as people err dolls or whatever. If anything its good that couples see this
Decades of Indiana Jones and similar movies where men are the only real characters and women are just there to look pretty and get in trouble. One movie based on the fact that Ken is just not that important in the barbie verse and some men freak out. At the end Barbie sees the error in Kens not having any rights. They're slowly getting rights, mirrowing how women in the real world slowly got rights. It's not men hating at all
Not to mention these movies in the past where women we just seen as objects never got real story architecture like ken
Nope - it's that all men are potrayed as morons who need correcting as a comment on gender. Indiana Jones movies werent using one character to comment on a whole gender and also the women arent shown as badly as the men are here. And what's more those movies were in the past and now we always have these strong female characters constantly shoved in mens movies, so all that Barbies doing is showing men not to bother with that because women wont bother to show men well in their movies.
FINALLY! I watched Barbie last Thursday and I've been looking for youtube reviews about it since then, but most of them were by guys and/or dissing it. I'm so glad to hear a youtuber I actually like (discovered your channel when you did your Desperate Housewives series and I'm really excited that you got into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, we definitely have a similar taste) defending this movie. I've also read the article you reference and when it says "If they made a movie in which women were treated the way this one treats men, people would scream", it's like "Do you mean like... 90% of films made twenty years ago or earlier?" I just find it hilarious. And I totally agree with what you said about the Kens getting the bare minimum and still feeling grateful being a very realistic reflection of our society. It drives me insane when people say that this ending is just leftist propaganda and a very dangerous message because it paints Barbie's matriarchal society as the right choice.
And Barbie is literally holding both women and men accountable. If we're be real, ken in the movie represents men of today feeling insecure and having identity crisis. Plus, him having an ego and getting rejected also represents men going to channels that claim to want to help men regain their masculinity.
It doesnt hold women accountable at all.
I loved how Barbie’s human experience were the lowest points of being a human like crying and all the things she dealt with in the real world and with the kens and she still chose to be human because she appreciated all the aspects
like when her and ken are talking about how they are being perceived on the street and Barbie is like "this attention feels very much violent"
I just feel like it would have been more realistic to show both the ups and downs of the real world. For me it felt like they focused a lot on the negatives of the real world without highlighting any of the positives of the real world (or being a woman in the real world) so Barbie’s choice to leave behind the seemingly perfect Barbie World for the real world felt disingenuous because we didn’t get to see Barbie *enjoying* much about being in the real world before she chose it.
Margot Robbie is so talented and beautiful. All those guys who say she's mid should first look at the mirror! Plus she's helped develop and produce the movie with her production company. She's more than just pretty.
I think we're running into a huge problem in society where people can't understand satire. There's no thought put in when these people are making reviews and writing articles without actually understanding what the movie is saying. It's like they can't understand that a main character is fallable and can be incorrect. Which I think is a reflection of our self centered view of being the main character and not being wrong. Our culture is doing away with critical thinking
Exactly.
So true. I scratched my head and thought - don't people get that it´s satire? And do so many men and women identify so strongly with the Patriarchy that they think questioning gender roles is man hating?
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@ishastrega6851 I think so. I certainly felt that's why it took me so long to identify as a feminist growing up. Also, manosphere types keep trying to push that for sure. Honestly the way they try and take anything feminism stands foe and distort it into being "man hating" is insane if not down right manipulative. They can't be that dumb afterall. Often times, I think they know exactly what they're doing.
People understand satire but when you make every single man a moron or a moron who needs to change his toxic ways that's still man hating, even if it's satire. It's like an a old racist cartoon from the 40's - it's satire in that it's satirizing a whole group of people negatively.
What did you think of Allen?
Allan was amusing to me and Michael Cera brought him to life pretty well.
Allan was dope. All my homies love Allan.
I mean he an icon
He was the only good man in Barbie land. Plus let’s be real he was to good for the kens and Barbie’s also he choked a man with a shovel
I loved Allan, he was the only decent male in Barbie land, and it's great to see Michael Cera in this role.
Barbie was very well-made. The whole cast was great, but Ryan Gosling stole the show for me. Margot Robbie was such great casting for Barbie. The film really went beyond what you would expect and wove together a narrative about identity and finding your place in the world beyond what is foisted upon you due to your gender role. It really shows that everyone struggles with issues of identity because of the expectations that we all have to deal with.
Well said. This is something I didn’t really understand upon my first watch of the film (in my defense I went to a midnight viewing so I was kinda tired haha) but I will definitely be looking forward to viewing the movie through this lens the next time I watch it!
Thanks for talking about how Barbie is absolutely not 'man-bashing' (if anything it was perhaps more emphathetic to Ken than it needed to be with the way he took over everything in Barbieland and how close it is to how insecure men behave irl). It's kinda simultaneously entertaining and super infuriating that incels and anti-feminists are calling it 'man-bashing', like it's ridiculous, the movie doesn't portray the Kens as villains, Allan is genuinely good and it's Barbie who apologised even though the Kens were actually oppressing and brainwashing the Barbies. The horses bit was too funny as well.
I do agree like if it was man hating then WHY WOULD BARBIE APOLOGISE?! And then she said “not every night needed to be girls night”. She recognised her errors
Ikr, I wish more would recognise that it isn't about hating men or 'man-bashing' and how that reaction from so many shows how relevant the film is with how the Kens wanted to take over and didn't know or care that they were worse to the Barbies than the Barbies ever were to them. Love your vids and your top's so nice too, you look so pretty, real Ophelia Lovibond vibes. 🩷
I think people call it man bashing because they don’t believe the character of Ken would have acted that way in the first place. Technically the characterization of Ken in past Barbie properties has never been anything like the insecure and immature Ken we got in this film. It’s not that “not all Kens” don’t act this way, it’s that THE Ken most people know when they think of Barbie and Ken shouldn’t have acted this way because the Ken who is usually in love with Barbie is a mature and supportive character to Barbie, not just a simp who can’t take no for an answer.
I get your point about a supportive Ken and that could have maybe worked but I thought it was a pretty good way to portray how too many men see women having power and not prioritising men as oppression or an ‘attack’ on them and it makes sense that the Kens would have a simplistic view of the patriarchy as it was new for them. It’s not a surprise but still frustrating how people rushed to call the movie ‘man-hating’ when that’s so far from the truth, it’s literally wild how people got that from ‘Barbie’ but it’s kinda ironic that it proves that the Kens are a bit too close to the real incels out there.
The part where America Ferrera was like “no, he deserves this. He took your house, your clothes, your car, overthrew the government, and brainwashed your friends. You do not need to be sympathetic to that” was SO REAL because girls (me included before I was able to get out of it) will see the most abusive horrible trash man and be like “but he took me on that nice date once, he’s not all bad!”
I loved how the movie so perfectly showed the dangers of young boys and men being exposed to unregulated patriarchy with no structure or teaching about why it’s NOT good, like ken (and barbie, for all of you that are going to hop on and criticize me) are basically children being thrust into the real world and the extreme image for men that was shown is what boys are seeing when they grow up and they can become exactly like Ken in that part of the movie if they aren’t taught why that’s wrong.
Why whats wrong? Stallone movies? The Godfather? Trucks? horses? Wanting a girlfriend?
One question, was everyone wearing pink when you went? I swear when me and my mom went everyone was wearing pink and dressed up.
everyone was in pink its adorable
it was such a community experience i love that everyone dressed up
@@EverydayZer0 it was something to remember for sure, such a positive cinema experience
I think the strength of the film is that it critiques girl boss feminism or reactionary feminism that thinks the best thing to happen would be if men's and women's roles switched. Granted it's a minority opinion but it does happen. The only problem with that is that, as usual, all the idiot antifeminists who watched the film didn't understand that part. Barbie apologises for taking Ken for granted and dismissing his needs at the start of the film (every night is girl's night). She recognised that flipping patriarchy into a matriarchy where women do everything and men just do "beach" isn't a solution.
I especially liked how Ken had to find who he was without Barbie. It's a really incisive description of how the so many men relate to women. Men define themselves entirely based around how they relate to women - both positive and negative. These manosphere men are obsessed with women, every second of their lives revolves around women. The movie tells straight men it's time for us to find out who we are separate from women. Not everything has to be about romantic relationships with women. We can just BE.
Sadly I think it's too subtle for most of these guys to pick up on. So all they takeaway from it is "the movie says men are bad" it's anti-men! Waaaaah.
Edit: Also hats off to the film for being so nakedly political and pretty didactic too without being boring or trite. It's just funny because despite all the films and shows people complain about for being too political, this is the first one I've seen that actually has been as explicitly political as they say it is.
Blah blah blah, the movie potrayed all men and Kens as morons compared to their female counterparts, that is what makes it man hating not it's themes.
Also feminists are obsessed with men far more than men are obsessed with women - look at this movie if you want proof, its the fricken Barbie movie and the feminist director is obsessing over Ken and men and patriachy like it's some fetish for her.
Seriously these people need to rewatch the barbie movie and really pay attention to what the message was saying and why it's important to the movie 🎥. Since I see it as a fun, funny and empowering movie of her her learning self discovery while learning her flaws but choose to be human is amazing.
I do hope this movie gets an Oscar.
People do need to chill. It's a classic gender role flip. It's to show the problems with patriarchy by showing what a problematic matriarchy looks like and how ridiculous it is for either gender to have more power than the other. The other thing is they start moving towards Ken empowerment at the end of the movie, so there isn't the intention to continue on with the way things go. The movie is literally about waking up to the injustices in society.
Except the Barbie matriachy is never shown in as bad a light as the real world patriachy or the Kendom and the men are all written as dumb and the women smarter. So it's not a simple gender flip, it may have been intended to be but because it showed female characters as smarter and morally better it's man hating.
@@poocrayon4588 lol. No its not. If you think thats man hating then you truly are a special snowflake. Also I'm assuming you're a man but imagine seeing your gender treated the way the Kens were treated in pretty much every single movie you watch until this one. Thats what women have to deal with. Being eye candy, having no agency, never being the main character, having to watch women under thirty make out with men over fifty constantly on screen. We had to watch consistently while women were brutalized to justify men having a plot or a reason for action.
There are so many women hating movies out there already so it's pretty weak that you all get your little egos and feelings hurt because the men in this movie aren't dominant. Literally pathetic.
What you're seeing in the Barbie movie is a tiny tiny adorable representation of the kind of oppression women have faced for thousands of years and for decades when you're confining it to movies. Go cry about it but I promise I won't feel bad.
@@ruthc.5414 Lol, well I guess men shouldnt give a shit aboutr potraying women well either then and just make them all dumb. Barbie movie taught us women are fine with showing men that way so why not?
And women were never potrayed as badly as a gender as men are in the Barbie movie. And whats more women havent been opressed for thousands of years at all. Until after the industrial revolution when our society got technoligcally advanced enough to support women working more in the last century, it never occured to any women or men to think of women that way at all. It's all just a big dumb feminist fantasy that women were dreaming of escaping their opression for thousands of years.
what the kens did was certainly wrong, but a part of me thought "this is like kids playing play-pretend". like, a watered down, overt, unrefined patriarchy lacking the complexities of our society. And I think the barbies sort of being like "ugh okay, you can have a LOWER position in government" was a good way to show that the liberation didn't come right away. these barbies were used to being IT and the kens sort of... getting ignored. it will take a while for such societal changes to occur right away... like in our world. Women didn't just get the right vote and went on to hold important, decision-making government positions instantly. of course the kens, since this movie is clearly making parallels between barbieland and our world, might choose to go for this route. I think that's part of the reason why brainwashed barbies were such callous stereotypes. All barbies lacked substance, like the kens. the "nuance" or "deepness" didn't come until their awakening. everyone really became people when they stopped thinking a patriarchy or a matriarchy was the ONLY WAY. NO OUTSIDE VOICES ALLOWED.
I wasn't entirely a fan of the "being a woman sucks" bit because I never am a fan of those. The patriarchy's merciless to everyone and you really can choose to not "omg I wanna be thin but can't say but I have to be" or "you must be a kind boss, not a mean boss (which... even male bosses get flack for being mean. it's what comes with being a boss. not everyone is going to be happy with your decisions). and them really glossing over how... what the kens went through was sort of even more depressing really didn't go well with me. The kens were IGNORED. the opposite of love is not hate or scorn, it's disinterest. The kens did not even get to stay in the dreamhouse and keep it neat, to be in charge of the finances earned by the barbies and have the role of primary caretaker forced upon them (therefore already giving them a leg to stand on socially. like, a sort of importance and dominance in a different, yet valuable field). they had NOTHING. at all. the women back then weren't "free", sure. the working ones did get pay less and staying at home forcefully while being expected to do all the hard jobs of parenting is not defendable. they suffered. what I am saying is that, unlike the women who had an importance in society which differed from the one men had, Kens had N-O-T-H-I-N-G.
Barbie's awakening was sweet and I loved it. She really became human. not a bitter human, mind you. She didn't become a depressed, lonely, anxiety-ridden mess at the very end. she stayed... herself but less "naive". It was so sweet and I liked the angle they took with it.
Thank you for breaking down your thoughts on this film. I loved the movie! The characters, sets, and plot were so good - it was enjoyable, satirical, and witty. My favorite character was actually the Weird Barbie - she was herself no matter what, and in the end, she helped to save the day. I also loved the messages about society + gender roles/expectations and how women treat each other/themselves (by watching things play out via the Ken dolls; competing with each other, being hyper focused on men, being distracted from some of the important issues they really need to focus on - issues such as politics, careers, etc.) I can't wait for this to come out on DVD so I can watch it again (and hopefully it will have some great extras).
Something that struck me watching so many women be upset at the negative response from some men was that the Barbies in the movie showed us how to do it on the small scale. These whiney dudes are irrelevant to our struggle. Now, I love men and I loved and empathized with Ken, but it has been so beneficial to me to just center myself and other women. And all of the men who whine about this movie or feminism understand nothing about it, so we can just ignore them and keep being informed and enacting change ourselves.
We don't need them to dismantle patriarchy. We just need to band together with other women and get our rights back. The Alans can support us along the way, and we can help the Kens on their journey afterwards, but other than that it's not about them.
It isn't an attack on them-it's about us and that's precisely what upsets them (just like with Ken), they just can't verbalize it that way.
Decentering men in our lives and building support and consciousness among women is radical and powerful. They've been afraid of us doing that for centuries, but they haven't been able to stop us freeing ourselves. Let's keep going, and let's not let the whiney Kens get us down. They can become Just Kens or Alans, or they can die mad about it.
I agree, like anyone who’s hating on this movie doesn’t get it and it’s here to encourage women to stick together. But at the same time it does have sympathy for how the patriarchy hurts men- for example, Barbie feels comfortable crying but Ken doesn’t cry the whole movie until he is literally having an emotional meltdown. And then feels ashamed for showing emotion.
I so agree, people aren’t used to seeing a movie where the women are banded together and where they’re at the centre of the narrative
it is also possible, that you are just a liar and an uneducated man-hater
I mean we do need them to dismantle the patriarchy in a way, but yeah the way to do that is to get other Barbie’s and other Allan’s and get enough of us that they are irrelevant
Ok well since you dont bother to listen when men tell you something offends them and dismiss their feelings as invalid I guess men can stop caring about potraying women better or listening if they say something is offensive as well.
I loved this movie! But mens reaction to it reminds me a lot about how the movie "Jennifer's body" was first perceived by men. They were expecting to see Megan Fox in a revealing way, but instead they got a horror movie about a girl who terrorises men which is why the movie got so many bad reviews back then. They didn't want a complex movie about girlhood, they just wanted to see Megan Fox in revealing clothes 🥲
I already saw many similar reactions to Barbie, and it's kinda sad to see how it all repeats again
People are too angry nowadays. That's why the movie got conservatives mad, lol. The movie is still making money. So, good luck
I don't think this was the first time in barbie where the roles were revered, I haven't watched the movie yet but it's nothing new for hollywood degrading male character (usually the male protagonist who get sided by female characters just for the sake of uplifting women which I have no problem with but often they don't execute it well) I do agree that in 1920 till 1960s women were one dimensional but over time hollywood did progress with female characters or leads. I do disagree with you that viewers only listen to male youtubers about there opinion for. the movie, there plenty of female youtubers who get attention as well. I don't know if anyone is noticing this but Barbie has always been known to be a feminist icon, the Barbieland she lives in considered 'matriarchy', I understand it's a barbie land and the kens are used for "accessory" but wouldn't it make the character Barbie un-feminist but idk that's just me since the cast and crew member including people in media praising this movie for being feminist but again I have to watch the film for myself.
Thers loads of good potrayals of women in movies before 1960. Your confusing women being shown in stereotypical gender roles as negative, but that was just the roles they were in in the real world. They could still be good, clever, bad - anything at all in a film. Also Barbie always being a feminist icon is mattel spin. They were constantly bringing out Barbie and Kens during the 60's and 70's with stereotypical man and woman jobs like doctor Ken and nurse Barbie or president Ken and first lady barbie.
I knew you'd had the right take. I cannot stop thinking about this movie, it's really sad to see so many people misunderstanding. I guess they just can't get the feeling this gave so many of us.
Yeah I’m sad but not everyone is going to get it and at least it’s doing well at the box office so a lot of people will get it
I find it so interesting how this movie can be interpreted in so many different ways. I’m somewhere in the middle of the two extremes of opinions on this movie. I really wanted to LOVE this movie (because I’ve always been a huge fan of Barbie since childhood and I’ve always loved pink and everything girly) but I ended up feeling a little disappointed by the ending of the movie. I really liked the Barbie Movie for a lot of things, because it is aesthetically perfect, had great casting, amazing fashion and set design, good humor, and there are a lot of great things about this movie for sure! Unfortunately, I did feel like the movie was also a little confusing on what it wanted to say, because the plot was a bit all over the place, and I did find it pretty negative about what it’s like to be a woman in the real world (at times it did feel like their point was to say “being a woman sucks!”) I think they could have done a lot more to say what is actually *good* about being a woman, so it gives Barbie more of a reason to *want* to go to the real world to be a “real woman.” (Kinda like Pinocchio wanting to be a real boy). I feel like this movie could have been really really good if they had a few more scenes of Barbie’s character arch, like just some simple scenes of her actually *enjoying* things in the real world that they don’t have in the Barbie world (maybe her watching Pride and Prejudice while eating ice cream, for example) then it would have given her more reasons to choose to be real in the end. Unfortunately, the way the movie is right now, I didn’t actually find Gloria’s speech in the end very uplifting. I’m surprised other women did find it empowering rather than disempowering? I’m curious how she can list all the difficult things about being a woman and women take that message to mean it’s worth being a woman? Sadly, it felt more discouraging than encouraging to me personally. I feel like this movie could have been so good if just a few small things had been changed, like a few more small scenes, then it would have made it feel more rewarding of a pay off in the end. I also would have preferred a plot that just wasn’t about Ken being uncharacteristically desperate for Barbie’s attention, because that is just not traditionally what their relationship was in the past. Barbie and Ken used to love and support each other, and that was okay. I understand that this movie had a lot of messages it wanted to say, and I’m not sure I fully understood all it was trying to say. I do think the story arch they gave Ken was worth exploring, I’m just not sure he was the right character to explore it (given his past characterization and relationship history with the Barbie character) but that’s just my opinion. I think I will enjoy this movie more upon the second watch, with all this in mind.
in my opinion if youre mad about how men are treated in the movie then you better be out fighting for womens rights in the real world because we get treated how the Kens get treated in Barbieland, on the daily in the real world
YES
men and women get treated badly in reality, in general it sucks to be a human in reality
I feel like the only way you could see Barbie as misandrist is if you equate men with misogynists... that's not the same thing.
FINALLY A WELL DONE VIDEO ON BARBIE❤️ I love what you said and Im so happy I found your channel.
Thank you so much 🤗
I'm a man & I didn't feel "bashed" at all. I've even seen it twice. It's so much fun!
I don't get how it was man hating when Barbie apologized to Ken at the end as well as encouraged him to find his true self and worth. She told him that he was more than her accessory and he shouldn't just live for her. That is a beautiful message, apologizing when you are wrong and lifting up others to see their true worth.
These incels are getting out of hand. They started an entire hate campaign against Barbie only for it to be successful. Many women I know are seeing the movie multiple times. We will give Barbie a good run. 🙏
Supporting this video so its more seen!! There are so many male reviewers trashing this movie, I agree here in RUclips men reviewers are much more listened and watched than women!!
It really sucks, especially if they’re sexist or misogynistic. Aside from the friendlyspaceninja I don’t like most of them lmao
Aww thankyou for supporting ☺️☺️
@@SerenaSkybourne Should men not discuss movies? If other men agree then they'll listen more. Obviously a lot of men thought it was man hating or they wouldnt watch and like those reviews. Perhaps you should be open to mens persepectives.
about to go see the movie tomorrow, good review serena 💖
Hope you enjoy it!
2/10 for the humor, 5/10 for the story, 12/10 for the feminist approach until we got a little too much of Ken, we ironically, subconsciously fell right back into the patriarchy in the movie theater when everyone laughed insecurely at and felt MOST sorry for Ken, ( despite the clearly emotional feminist approach,) because he was just “someone's boyfriend", and is an incredibly powerful man and profile who was in "The Notebook".
That's just the most kind and empathic review of the Barbie movie I've seen yet.❤ You explained everything so well, especially the part that we girls don't have to attack each other for being wrong feminist or not enough feminist or wearing too pretty clothes or so much more things. We need to be more comprehensive, supportive and encouraging with ourselves and other women around. This is what makes us stronger and happier, what really helps. That message was really important for me to hear. Thank you for such a beautiful video!
you're so lovely thankyou 💌 i'm glad you enjoyed this video
I got raked over the coals by my sister for going to go see Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie. I have freedom of choice as a 62 year old male to go see a movie of my choice. She said the movie is too woke and Communist Chinese propaganda. 😮 Amazing how she knows that! Senator Ted Cruz is your trusted news source? Now she said I should not be
Allowed around her grandchildren 😮 When I told her I wore a pink Eddie Bauer shirt she nearly lost it 😅
It's my personal conviction that 90% of the hate of this film is nothing more than monetized outrage. People are out to rage bait and get clicks.
I love your Barbie shirt, Serena. 💗I went into movie expecting a goofy family film, but I wasn't expecting it to get so moral heavy. Granted, I enjoyed the film, though felt that they got a bit preachy at times. I loved America Ferrera's emotional speech, and my audience actually clapped after she'd finished delivering it.
Yeah at times it did feel a bit forced woke and preachy I agree
I love the movie! Watched it twice, thinking about a third time ❤
I never cry during movies but this movie got to me. Margot is the heart and soul of the movie. Her emotional scenes were excellent. Ryan did a great job as Ken too.
i think some people dont understand this is BARBIE AND KEN they are not humans, they do have similarities but in the end they are dolls
My issue with the movie was actually that it WASN"T as focused on women as it should be. Ken got a good character arc and growth. The story of the Kens was actually far more compelling than the Barbie parts of the movie. I totally agree Ken's arc was the best. The Ken's got these great stand-out moments! And we really went on the journey with the main Ken.
Sasha and Gloria's mother-daughter story was barely there and was such a missed opportunity for a heart-warming storyline. Barbie deciding that she wanted to be human was so out of the blue. The character arcs for the women weren't well executed at all. It made no sense that all these "empowered" women just succumbed to the "patriarchy" as soon as the idea was mentioned to them. And their deprogramming was really silly. Again just hearing that the "patriarchy" was unfair and then bam they came to their senses. Nothing was earned. And we didn't go on an emotional journey with them.
It’s really about people being mad that her entire existence wasn’t around trying to get a man 😂😴
The people who hate this movie are the same people who hated the little mermaid remake.
They’re the people who are used to all media being aimed at them and when a movie is not made for them for once they panic and take it as an attack.
If you didn’t like this movie. It was NOT made for YOU!
Facts
yeah i agree
How come there’s a Patreon but no Matreon ?
I think people are being generous when they say the negative reviewers mentioned here are misunderstanding the story, I suspect that a lot of the claims are manufactured to click bait/ rage bait.
“Legally Blonde” “Jennifer’s Body” “Stepford Housewives” “Old Aquaintence” “The Miracle Worker” SO MANY “feminist films” from the past were able to make their point by telling their story, not telling their story to make their point🙄 this movie was plain bad in the same way all modern movies are. They think we always need a message spelled out for us and I’m sick of it. Just tell a story.
It sucked hard lol. Once the hype dies down and where out of the current lame era this movie is gonna be viewed very differently.
Until the "speech" (you know which one I mean) I really liked it. Why do they always have to ruin current movies by treating the audience like comlete morons?
I think the republicans’ main problem is the movie questions patriarchy. And instead of saying that, they pretend to not understand Ken’s role in Barbie lore and in the movie. Their issue is women questioning patriarchy at all.
THIS.
I am not Republican, but I have some sympathy for how Ken was characterized in this movie, mostly because if you are a real Barbie fan, you’d know Ken and Barbie have always had a loving and supportive relationship, so to change that for this movie is a bit jarring because now these are a different set of Barbie and Ken who don’t or never loved each other. It just changes the pre-established lore and Barbie cannon.
@@loverrlee If You’re a Barbie fan, you have watched the Barbie web shows created by Mattel on RUclips that were pretty popular and you’ve seen Toy Story. You’ve seen that whether they were “together” (like in Toy Story) or not together (like on the web show) Ken has always been portrayed as goofy and obsessed with Barbie, essentially only living to make Barbie happy while Barbie does whatever she wants and is more capable than Ken. It’s weird that people feel a need for them to be romantic. My comment wasn’t really about the lack of romance as there is just more complaints about Ken lacking autonomy. But lack of romance is very canon in Barbie lore created by Mattel. You wishing for them to be romantic isn’t the Republican view point I was referring to. I just think it’s sad people think they have to be romantic. The movie is about finding your identity as an individual - how would them being romantic aid in that? Why does Barbie owe any man romance? The creator of Barbie never even wanted Ken to exist and made him just to appease the Barbie fans’ desire to have a boyfriend option for Barbie. Ken’s role in the movie is so canon, it even reflects Ruth’s (creator of Barbie) feelings about him lol.
@@loverrleeen was always just another accessory for barbie. And I'm pretty sure in the barbie cannon she and Ken even broke up. I think it's not a bad thing that there was a step taken back from the romantic aspect of barbie and ken, because this is a barbie movie told through the feminine gaze. She doesn't need Ken's validation or romantic feelings to be valid to herself.
@@loverrlee Don't even bother talking to these femceIs
I think it's bad of him that he took her home but on the other hand, he had nowhere else to set up his mojodojo casa house because he didn't even have a house. The only person to question where the Kens sleep at night was Sasha (ironically) and Barbie looked at her as if she didn't have a clue. They were literally homeless so they took over the homes of the people who were in power. That's how I see it.
Did Barbie live up to the hype? YES. End of discussion.
Barbie:
I personally find it really ironic that for once a movie is focused and centred around women, and is trying to be empowering and everything and is showing the side of women are the main focus and men aren’t. And that’s THE WHOLE POINT. And so many people are butthurt about it. Like… they are missing the point.
Almost every other movie (including so many of the “chick flicks”) is centred around needing to land the guy, or needing to end up with the validation and “happy ending” but it’s always about a relationship, as if that’s the only possible scenario that exists. Like are we not tired of that trope? It’s in almost every movie. I know Im a bit tired of it.
I prefer movies that challenge that narrative and show and alternative and I like that movies are doing it more these days. I like watching a movie and actually getting to be surprised by an ending and it not being the same boring stereotype that we’ve all seen a million times.
I personally thought the ending of Barbie going off doing her thing and having her self realisation moment was nice. And also that Ken actually got the same thing and realised he didn’t need Barbie and he could do his own thing and be his own person without her. I liked that message! I don’t understand why people hate it. I’m just as tired seeing the whole “women need a man to be happy” as seeing it the opposite “men need to land the girl”. It goes both ways and honestly it’s dull.
Also random side/end note. I could rant about this but I wont.
It blows my mind that people call Margot “mid”!?!? Like WHAT!!? If there’s people who seriously think that Margot Robbie of all people is mid, then what hope is there for the rest of us!!? It’s a bit sad that society is so conditioned to seeing people photoshopped to perfection even in frickin instagram selfies n shit that if we see anyone even remotely different the automatic response is to criticise. It’s ridiculous! I find it ironic that so many people say they’re tired of “beauty standards” but also seem to be the ones who play into them the most. Like, you can’t have it both ways, make up your mind.
I personally enjoyed this movie, I went into it thinking it would be a bit silly and goofy (and it was). And whats wrong with that? Why does every single thing have to be deeply analysed all the time why can’t people just enjoy it, it’s not that serious 😂 it makes me laugh a bit at how overly serious and sensitive people got about this movie when it’s meant to just be funny and silly.
I personally love Ken in the movie, everything makes sense about him. Everyone would do the same at his place. He was pursuing Barbie's attention the same way women living in patriarchy feel they should be picked by men (and it doesen't always result in a pick-me mentality, but it always does subconciously and concioisly make you put men first). Than he sees that he doesen't have to do it, which results in him reversing roles, fighting the injustice, and doing it successfully. We villanise the "nice" guy response on rejection, but for the struggling men's rights activist and the victim of the matriarchy it makes sense. The end in wich he realizes that Barbie is not an end all or the standard of his worth,gives him the sens of equal self worth eventhough he had lost, and that was the similar feeling with my embracing feminism, as I was extremly sexist as a girl and a teen, even my father said to me I will go nowhere in life with that attitude that is not simply me being traditional, but me literally hating women, wich made me hate myself (and he was right, I remember saying to my friend I wanted to be a man, but her not to tell my mom, and she did, which resulted in my mom, luckily, saying it's stupid, because that's the way you solve gender dysphoria in kids, not with what America does rn, because now I feel proud of being a woman and prefer staying the one, because it feels truer to me, as I am feminin, I realized I just wanted my anger and need to let go of my look sometimes to be validated eventhough it's "not the way girls are", and I am "not a real woman" if I decide to shave a little bit later vs right when I see my hair has grown).
I don't think the mother and daughter were dismissive of the dad. They were actually trying to teach him how to speak Spanish and they were confident in his ability to take care of himself because it's simple. Wouldn't it be man hating if they were like uugghh your father's so helpless we HAVE to take him with us, he can't take care of himself. He was just chill and not the point of the movie.
7:39 youre dragging it...look its a movie about Barbie: a toy line for girls where Barbie was the main toy that girls naturally prefered to play with. Ken was an accessory to the sets who happened to be a boy. Boys dont play with Ken dolls and its not marketed to them anyway.
Apart from men sometimes being in supporting roles and that being okay or being eye candy for once(which btw they will just argue 2 wrongs dont make a right!) It's a movie based on a toyline that happens to use that as way for satire about gender politics and the issue of gendered roles . Thats it!
People are way too stuck on this incorrect idea that Greta just intentionally made up a story and universe where men are accessories just to put down men. Rather, she uses this Barbie toy line as a way to not only empower women(as it was initally designed to do) but also comment in toxicity of gender roles and inequality whether under a matriarchy or a patriarchy.
But no, it cant be that! "She and anyone who likes this are just spiteful and mean spirited feminist who wants to bully men because they hates them almost as much they hate motherhood and want ALL women to hate both too!😢"
P.s Greta Gerwin is a mom too lol
I love that you saw this movie as a loveletter to women. As much as it shows womens issues from a day to day and is a political comment to the patriachy. It also has so much love and celebration towards women, like barbieland feels like the club bathroom where 5 strangers shares lipstick and give dating advice, or the scene with the oldwomen and the attention on the beauty in old age. Or the final scene where she choses to become a real human, and it shows the montage of womanhood and true joy in the full woman expierence. I walked away from the theater, not as a victim, but feeling seen and positive about my being and proud of my gender. It was really speciel.
I bought in to the idea that the movie was "woke propaganda" until I saw a conservative commentator say he LOVED the Barbie movie, and then I began to understand it in a whole new light.
You totally missed the point on why Glorias husband was yet another man hating moment. Gloria rolls her eyes at how lame he is when hes trying to learn a language and later in the car with barbie is reminiscing about some other wilder dude that taught her to drive that she presumbly had more feelings for than her lame husband. And women and Gerwig dont understand at all why that is man hating lol? Imagine a movie where the sympathetic male hero and his son mock his wifes hobby and then he's reminiscing about some older hotter girlfriend. That character would instantly seem like an asshole to women and men - yet when Gloria does it it doesnt even register to some women as disrespectful or bad, she goes on still the sympathetic hero battling patriachy to them and the moment is just a minor joke (as it was to you). But I guess some women are so feminist the idea of them having to show any respect to men at all is an offensive concept or something, even though you can bet they would hate the same situation and recognize it as rude if the Gloria character was a man and he treated his wife that way.
Of course that one character wasnt that big of a deal. He's just another brick in the man hating wall that is Barbie.
Anyways I love how women think they can decide whether the movie is man hating and men should be offended. Next time women are offended by something and men tell them they're wrong and it upsets you remember how you're acting and dismissing mens opinions in this video wont you?
Nothing wrong with a film in which men have no agency. Making Ken nothing but a total joke is questionable. Better to ignore people than treat them shabbily.
That was BRILLIANT! Great job
thanks so much darling
I had to share it! It was the best review so far !!@@SerenaSkybourne
@@LaurasGreenEyescouldn’t do it without your support! Thanks so much
pro-women doesn't mean anti-men, just because Barbie focuses on feminity and the struggles of being a woman doesn't mean it's against men.
Alan, to me, felt like a reference to gender nonconforming and non-binary people. He never had a place in Barbieland, nor Kendom. When Gloria and Sasha decided to go back and help the Barbies, Alan said something like “I’m never getting out of here,” as if that had been a dream of his for a long time. He wanted out of a world divided into two categories-Barbie and Ken, aka women and men. Because he didn’t fit in to either of those boxes.
This could just be me projecting my own complex relationship with gender onto Alan, but he quickly became my favorite character because of it. I see you, Alan ;-;
I am just looking forward to watching a nice comedy movie. 😊
This movie didn’t know what it was, and just wasn’t good. Let’s keep it as a doll movie and move on.
Serena, you have officially just posted your Best Video! And it's gonna stay at the top for a while. I couldn't have loved this video more.
i think its my best one too
thanks so much beautiful
@@SerenaSkybourne ❣️❣️❣️
I love your review of Barbie and i love the great movie. It was so so very emotional.
I ❤the movie. President barbie literally says things shouldn’t go back to how they are & the kens should have shelter!
i like the barbie movie and that's kneough for me
I'm not a Mattel or Barbie doll fan but I expected it to be a great film. After seeing it I think that it is even better, far better than the hype suggests. I think it is great.
Yeeeees! 💯
Great analysis
thankyou cutie
I love your red hair so much.❤🥰
I watched the movie yesterday. It was amazing. Thank you for the wonderful review 💕
wasnt it?! thanks boo
Your My Favourite
Only 7 minutes in and I absolutely love how well put your feedback is. I wanted to express all the same thoughts but couldn't put them into the right words, so thank You ❤. Hopefully, now those, who misunderstood the movie will see its true value.
Thankyou so much. I was very worried about putting out this video because I didn’t want people to misunderstand the intent- or Greta’s intent
It made me cry. 🥹🥲
in a good way or a bad way
@@KittyKat-ky5us In a good way.
@@taylornusteling8692 oh that's good
Even though the characters said that Ken brainwashed the Barbies, I think that's not quite true. We never saw Ken do that to the Barbies and also they were more educated so how could he? What are you thoughts?
I think the part that bothered me most about the movie was the fact that there wasn’t true equality in Barbieland at the end. I guess I just expect a perfect happy ending. I went into the movie expecting an escape from reality - being a woman in America in the year 2023 when we’ve lost some of our autonomy - again - but the movie was more of a reflection of our current reality. So it was frustrating to me because I didn’t get an escape from that reality. When I was a child playing out scenarios with my dolls, I made everything that was wrong in the world right again. I was in control. In my real life as a child, I was dealing with a lot of trauma, so the dolls were my escape. This is probably why the movie affected me in such a profound way. I cried throughout much of it.
Womansplaining how men should watch a movie. ☕️
i'm just reminding men to not be sexist jerks and learn something from the message of the
movie. Watch it however you want
@@SerenaSkybourne interesting haha
I’d love for them to make a Ken movie where he could have a monologue about all the stereotypes and unfair expectations that are placed on men, and how the patriarchy hurts men as well as women.
Ken has a whole character arc and a whole musical break. Which was so good!! Yeah. No.
Couldn’t Greta just show us a confident decisive man who is kind and respectful to women?
Couldn’t she show us (in detail) this hypothetical man we’re supposed to be?
Not just show every horrible example who has ever treated her poorly, like those are the only ones who exist in society?
Leaving, I felt bad for being a guy, and there was nothing I could do to change that.
allen i think was the example of the man you should be. he helped the barbies when no one else did, and he was the only doll who could actually take all those Kens in a fight and win
Allen is literally right there
@@SerenaSkybourne Allen is a weirdo without any friend who is still ignored at the end. Why the hell would any men want to be that?
Love your reviews. I was wondering you have watched shows like one tree hill, the 100 or veronica mars and if so would love to see your perspective in a review.
one tree hill is coming :)
@@SerenaSkybourne Awesome cant wait.
People are missing the whole point. The way Barbieland is set up in the film is a commentary on the absurdity of the dolls. Ken dolls always existed as accessories to Barbies and there were never any Ken houses. That's why Ken were treated as accessories who literally existed for Barbie at the beginning of the film, and the fact that Ken learned what men were capable of when he came to the real world and earned agency is the point of his arc. The film offered him sympathy because his motivations were understandable. As an audience we were supposed to feel bad foe him at the beginning of the film when Barbie sent him away and understand his awe of the real world. The whole point of his arc is that he realized he wanted to be more than an object to Barbie and wanted to have more opportunities and more in life like men in the real world. He originally went about it the wrong way by brainwashing the other Barbie's and taking over Barbieland, but he learned the error of his ways and Barbie apologized to him for how she originally treated him. The film could have completely villainized him by having him get kicked out of Barbieland or something, but instead the film offered him sympathy, by having Barbie realize the way she treated him was wrong and apologize to him. Then Ken had to realize he didn't need Barbie to exist because he was enough, he was Kenough. The other Kens realized this too and at the end of the movie they decided to make some changes in Barbieland. Its just that men and women's positions in the real world (in terms of which group was marginalized and needed to earn rights) is reversed. Ken had an antagonistic role, but as audiences we were supposed to understand and sympathize with him and be happy that he realized he was enough and didn't need to depend on a beautiful woman to have value and exist. He gained agency and at the end of the film, started to gain self-worth.
Also the set was phenomenal and the overall story was fun! While the dialogue was a little too on the nose and the movie wasn't very subtle about it's feminism messages, I still related to a lot of the stuff Barbie said and went through and related to the stuff America Ferrera's character said. It may have been on the nose and preachy, but it was true. The movie was very preachy at times, but I did appreciate the more subtle themes of growing up. Or leaving the idealized world we have as children and going into the gritty, complicated adult world. Barbie's arc was a reflection of this and it's a universal experience. In her case, it was figuratively and literally about becoming a woman (since at the end we found out she had gotten genitals after becoming human when she went to see her gynecologist). While the ending was funny and answered the question that she literally became a human with human parts, I would have rather the ending show her being a creator of some kind (like a designer or a designer of dolls or screenwriter or something) since she told Ruth she wanted to be a creator, not just the thing that got created.
I also appreciated the inclusion of Alan and Skipper, and Ruth, the woman who created Barbie's and all the subtle and not-so-subtle nods to the history of the doll. I also like how the movie included the fact that before Barbie was invented, most of the dols for girls were baby dolls which were meant to teach women how to be nurturing. That was why Ruth created Barbie, so that little girls could have these fun, beautiful dolls where they could imagine themselves as women who could do and be all sorts of things (including doctors and fairies). I think a lot of the criticism stems from misinterpretations of Ken's arc (though understandable misinterpretations), people not knowing the history of the doll and why she was created, and that the movie could be a little too preachy.
While I do think the feminist messages in the movie could at times be a little too preachy and on-the-nose, and the ending a bit better, I still enjoyed it overall! It was a fresh, fun, and hilarious blockbuster which brought back memories of my childhood where I played with Barbie's all the time, a protagonist I related to, and a story about leaving home and childhood behind for the real world.
That's not exatly true - in the dolls Ken was literally president decades before barbie and she was his first lady. They often brought out Ken with a stereotypical man job like Doctor or Pilot and Barbie with the woman job like Nurse or Flight Attendant right up until the 2000's.
You know even if I agreeed with your analysis of what this film was supposed to about which, which to be clear I don't, the film actually has live up to that. The film breaks it's messages with it's resolution to the already ridiculous conflict.
It's like you knew I was watching Barbie content right before seeing the notification for this video. Barbie (2023) hit deeper than it had any right to 🩷
Yes, Serena must indeed be a mind reader! 🔮
I am a psychic ☺️❤️
@@SerenaSkybourne you caught me 😁🩷
@@trinaq perhaps 😁
I appreciate your perspective so much, it's annoying how many people look at everything as as a face-value agenda instead of reading the subtextual themes. Yes, as a reflection of the real world, I think the ending was saying that the system is too broken to be an easy fix, but one step at a time can make a difference.
yesss its likely to be a commentary on the systematic issues here, if i had to guess. people are rly lacking critical perspective these days i swear