CINEMA
Barbie Is For The Millennials And Oddly Colorblind
Yesterday, I went to see Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Issa Rae, and Will Ferrell.
The movie, which cost 145 million dollars to make, is a hit and the blockbuster of the summer. Released on July 21, the film made 162 million dollars in its opening weekend and will definitely cross the billion-dollar threshold soon.
The visuals are pink, popping, and vibrant. From the dream houses of the Barbies to the wardrobes, to the background visuals, to the actors, everything is astonishingly bright and pretty.
But this doesn’t mean Barbie is a cutesy film with no meaning behind it. In fact — there was an overreaching message — the patriarchy is bad.
Aside from the existential crisis Barbie faces when she starts becoming human (sad, mushy, and complicated with cellulite), the movie is ultimately a battle between the patriarchy of the real world and the matriarchy of Barbie Land — the only home that Robbie, as Stereotypical Barbie, knows.
In Barbie Land, the Barbies rule everything, and the Kens are only there. While the Barbies win Nobel prizes, sit on the Supreme Court, and work in every profession you can imagine, the Kens are…dumb as rocks. Gosling’s Ken, madly in love with Robbie’s…
