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Not sure if this thread has already been posted, but I haven’t seen it, so I thought to start a new one. Also spoilers alert fyi.
The other day I went to see Barbie. I wasn’t sure I wanted to go see it and if my friend hadn’t dragged me to AMC after three weeks from its release I would have probably been still clueless if it was going to be a good movie or not. I had mixed feelings to begin with. So I wasn’t 100% surprised when I decided it was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life.
Beside the fact the story was messy, the plot lacking and some characters unnecessary, what stuck with me the most was how fake and ridiculous its feminist and inclusive propaganda is. For the entire movie they literally shove at your throat that this movie is a feminist, diverse and inclusive story to the point that it’s just too much. Literally every single male character in the movie is seen as an idiot or an opportunist, unless they are emasculated and feminist supporters too. That is not feminism. Any rights movement doesn’t need to discredit the rights of any other being. If I think of right feminist stories I think of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. For the entire seven seasons they never attempted to make men as the villains. But Barbie did. So that made me wonder if the intentions behind the movie are real or it’s just an easy clap for people to restore Barbie’s dead popularity and earn a lot of money at the box office.
I mean after all if you think in the big picture Barbie is a doll owned by one of the biggest corporations in America. Since its release it has always been very controversial. People accused Barbie to be anti-feminist and sexualized, just like one the characters of the movie accused Margot Robbie in one of the movie scenes. But where’s the point in the movie where you realize Barbie is not just a pretty face?? Seriously I didn’t get it. Is that at the end where Barbie wants to become a real person so that she can be her own boss and become the inventor behind the idea? How does that apply to real life? Barbie dolls in real life are just toys, they don’t talk or are alive like Margot Robbie. Now all of a sudden we should feel empathetic to Barbie, the brand, because a character from a movie who was scripted and fictional decided she wanted to be more than just a pretty face? Again I didn’t get it and those cheap formulas make me believe nothing but the worst things behind the intentions of the movie director and Mattel. I also didn’t buy the “inclusive” message thrown in it. America Ferrara, a Hispanic woman, is the real hero behind the movie versus the white men who are mean and stupid. Yet the movie is called Barbie, two white cis stereotypically beautiful actors are the main characters of the story, yet they want you to believe they’re inclusive and they promote diversity. All smoke in the eyes in my opinion.
Anyway any thoughts on this movie?
The other day I went to see Barbie. I wasn’t sure I wanted to go see it and if my friend hadn’t dragged me to AMC after three weeks from its release I would have probably been still clueless if it was going to be a good movie or not. I had mixed feelings to begin with. So I wasn’t 100% surprised when I decided it was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life.
Beside the fact the story was messy, the plot lacking and some characters unnecessary, what stuck with me the most was how fake and ridiculous its feminist and inclusive propaganda is. For the entire movie they literally shove at your throat that this movie is a feminist, diverse and inclusive story to the point that it’s just too much. Literally every single male character in the movie is seen as an idiot or an opportunist, unless they are emasculated and feminist supporters too. That is not feminism. Any rights movement doesn’t need to discredit the rights of any other being. If I think of right feminist stories I think of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. For the entire seven seasons they never attempted to make men as the villains. But Barbie did. So that made me wonder if the intentions behind the movie are real or it’s just an easy clap for people to restore Barbie’s dead popularity and earn a lot of money at the box office.
I mean after all if you think in the big picture Barbie is a doll owned by one of the biggest corporations in America. Since its release it has always been very controversial. People accused Barbie to be anti-feminist and sexualized, just like one the characters of the movie accused Margot Robbie in one of the movie scenes. But where’s the point in the movie where you realize Barbie is not just a pretty face?? Seriously I didn’t get it. Is that at the end where Barbie wants to become a real person so that she can be her own boss and become the inventor behind the idea? How does that apply to real life? Barbie dolls in real life are just toys, they don’t talk or are alive like Margot Robbie. Now all of a sudden we should feel empathetic to Barbie, the brand, because a character from a movie who was scripted and fictional decided she wanted to be more than just a pretty face? Again I didn’t get it and those cheap formulas make me believe nothing but the worst things behind the intentions of the movie director and Mattel. I also didn’t buy the “inclusive” message thrown in it. America Ferrara, a Hispanic woman, is the real hero behind the movie versus the white men who are mean and stupid. Yet the movie is called Barbie, two white cis stereotypically beautiful actors are the main characters of the story, yet they want you to believe they’re inclusive and they promote diversity. All smoke in the eyes in my opinion.
Anyway any thoughts on this movie?