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the fact that the first female human experience barbie goes through is being self conscious and experiencing sexual harassment mirrors how growing up as a girl one day you’re okay and the next all of a sudden you feel bad about your appearance and are receiving unwanted advances is something that can be so fucking important to be recognized in film
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Barbie (2023) ✦ Dir. Greta Gerwig
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Allan acknowledges the narrators voice, saying that he’s confused about how there’s only one Allan. This means he hears the narrator and understands what she says.
Later in the movie, when Barbie is crying about how she isn’t pretty anymore, the narrator cuts in to say as a note to the movie creators that Margot Robbie was probably not the best casting choice to make that point. Allan, able to hear and understand the creators voice must have heard this and therefore must know that he is in a movie.
When he is attempting to escape barbieland, Allan pulls a bunch of fighting moves out of nowhere, fighting off several Kens despite the Kens being the stereotype of a strong atheletic guy and Allan being Micheal Cera. It is my hypothesis that this power and strength comes from Allan being aware he is in a movie and therefore, like in a lucid dream, able to manipulate his reality in order to pull off feats like taking on five Kens at once (in a fight). In this essay I will-
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everyone’s talking about the America Ferrera monologue and yes it was cool and all (she ate that delivery and she deserves her flowers!) but really the most powerful part of the film is the Ruth x Barbie scene in the final act with that Billie Eilish song in the background. THAT was what moved me. and my friends. and the sweet old lady behind me who was watching with her husband (overheard her say it was the first time in 3 years they went to the cinema!). and the mom of two boys and one girl beside us who kept apologizing to me because one of her sons almost blinded me with his phone’s flashlight just before the movie started. and the full row of high school girls below us who were trying so hard to hide their sniffling from each other.
it was just after the last part of the credits rolled in that I realized how meta that experience was. watching an entire sequence that celebrates the joys of girlhood and womanhood along with this intergenerational group of women, mostly strangers to me but to whom I shared an unspoken bond with just because we’re all the same gender trying not to lose who we are, discovering all the various things we’re made for, and rejoicing in all the unique sorrows and triumphs of being a woman in a world that makes it difficult for us to just…BE.
I didn’t think I came out of the theatre with an abrupt raging desire to crush the patriarchy asap, nor did it suddenly embolden me with radical ideas of feminism. but I could feel all of those women who watched it with me walk out of there with a certain power, one that the film reminded us we’ve always had. to simply…exist. unapologetically. as we are. without the need for permission from anyone but ourselves.
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Between Ryan Gosling Ken and Benoit Blanc I’m starting to think that it’s some sort of animal abuse to keep casting big name actors in stoic macho manly man rolls instead of giving them goofy little guys to play. Like look at them their coats are shiny, they seem so much more lively and energetic. We need to make sure all actors have enough goofy little guys to play before peta gets involved.
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Your daily dose of spooky posts
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Your daily dose of spooky posts
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Basically what’s happening, right?
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Something REALLY interesting about this scene
At the beginning of the scene Miles confronts Gwen about the ‘small elite strike-team’ comment.
Gwen lies and plays it off, saying that most of them are part-time anyway.
IMMEDIATELY after that in the next line dialogue, Hobie confronts Gwen and asks her ’Gwendy, how much have you told him about his place in all this? - Maybe not enough.’
Hobie is expressioning disappointment towards Gwen. He doesn’t approve of her lying to Miles, knowing what’s gonna happen to him. He doesn’t agree with them keeping him in the dark - which is why later in the scene he says
'I haven’t gotten a Scooby Doo, mate. But that’s what they want.’
He’s warning Miles that they’re keeping in him the dark, on purpose.
ONCE AGAIN Hobie showing foward thinking and outwardly disapproving of the obviously unfair treatment that Miles is given. He’s not angry at Gwen, but he’s willing to tell her straight up that she’s not doing or telling Miles enough to protect him.
Miles deserved to know Miguel’s motives BEFORE meeting him. That’s why he pointed it out then.
He’s ALWAYS looking out for Miles
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Making jokes about Noir being colorblind/not understanding colors is how we cope with how unbelievably powerful his brain is
