Barbies, Stereotypes and Liars – Morality: Ethics

A bunch of bored girls, some wearing glasses, playing on the beach with their plastic babies.Suddenly, when the epic music starts 2001, like a postmodern monolith, emerges a gigantic, smiling Margot Robbie, her dazzling presence enough for angry girls to start banging their toy babies against rocks and some end credits Subtitles, during which we stalked Barbie all day long. Small details, such as when you drink with nothing in the glass, make this aperitif enjoyable, which guarantees a film with the power of words, plea for pop feminism Funny, beautiful, persistent, profound. I had a good laugh in the darkness of this summer movie theater.

But as it happens, my expectations are disappearing by the minute.A bit disappointed oppenheimer, I’ve gone into this movie convinced that yes, it’s going to be a good movie.A smart business narrative based on captivating movie plot And backed by several possibly the highest paid screenwriters on the planet and a stellar cast — Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie both read the script, which appealed to them because otherwise they wouldn’t be in There – it won’t fail.

At first glance this may not appear to be the case. A perfect day at Barbieland is full of promise and ends with a fun party, when the stereotypical Barbie—blonde, come on—out of the blue asks: “Have you ever thought about dying?”

. The dolls stared at her in horror, and Barbie felt compelled to mumble an apology. The party goes on. But from here on, Barbie was never the same, and she started experiencing unusual changes, like waking up the next day with flat feet that wouldn’t allow her to walk in high heels, or discovering cellulite on her thighs. The rest of the dolls, horrified, suggested she talk to the “rare Barbie”, a shaved doll with a disfigured physique, because in the real world, her owner severely stripped her head and destroyed her body .

A rare Barbie doll has clarified that something happened to her owner in the real world and she had to go to her and explained how. So stereotypical Barbie finds herself traveling to California, unexpectedly accompanied by Ryan Gosling’s Ken. The funniest and most substantive part is the conflict between the ideal couple and today’s aggressive world.there are a few gag Great results, but the best thing is how amazing the reality is for Ken, he’s from Barbie land, where all the Kens live under Barbie dolls, and of course, society works just fine. Ken hallucinating about heteropatriarchywhen he comes back, he’ll revolutionize Barbieland and he and the rest of the Ken family will start drinking beer and calling their girls “dolls” And ask Barbie to serve them beer and ask them to obey them from now on, just like real women.

‘Barbie’ doesn’t want to tell too much in too short a time

I’m not going to go any further because I’m not including spoilers, and because I’ve already summed up the best of the movie, which is what’s emerged from the trailers and clips that have been leaking to us via droppers for months.

Where did it fail? Well, it can’t tell much in a short amount of time. Those two hours seemed like an eternity to me: towards the end I wanted to leave the cinema. In 2020, just seeing Ken and Barbie in California is enough to make an entire movie, and it’s over in twenty minutes here. For example, when they get blocked — and they get blocked twice with no consequences — it happens within thirty seconds, and in my opinion, that’s a traumatic situation that requires Use it in a narrative and dramatic way.Same thing happened in Ken’s Rebellion, there was a great battle between all the male dolls, which was resolved in a split second when the sequel had enough themes; Barbie II

. Paradoxically, the saturation of events is boring.

Also showing up is the creator of the Barbie doll, Slogged In, and a Latina mother-daughter couple who grew up in a completely predictable way, We’ve seen 200,000 mother-son conflicts. Of course, with more and more antics in the music, and I’m tired of how stupid all the men look, it’s probably a joke that’s at least deep but uneven. The end result is yawning to me. I expected more.

I expect a truman show exciting and effective, very ideologicalOf course, though I’m one of those people who praises the movie with words. Radical movies aren’t the worst in my opinion, but a lot of the time they are the best.anti-clerical tirade viridianaan anti-totalitarian charge 1984who oppose anti-Semitism Schindler’s List The class struggle that occurs in all of Ken Loach’s films (a smart Ken) are examples of powerful films where the political or social message doesn’t bother, quite the opposite.

It’s not that I don’t like the appeal of feminism: what I don’t like is that it’s diluted by commerciality

It’s not that I don’t like the feminist argument: what I don’t like is that it’s watered down by commerciality.When talking about the gender wars, the film either calls for radical feminism and anti-sexism, or an anti-sexist parody of the Ken family’s rise to power in Barbie (the funniest part); but Living in a commercial no-man’s land, there’s one ending — or multiple endings, because there’s two or three in a row — and I think starting with Mattel, there’s all sorts of pressure, and the movie stays between two or three to please everyone. Every now and then, I think, that doesn’t satisfy anyone. There are several women around me who have seen it that were more disappointed than me.

The problem is that such a powerful communication activity—the so-called pappenheimer– They managed to take all of us to the cinema to see two so-called masterpieces, we found two “almost” good movies, none of them were 100% successful, I personally feel cheated, now I go to the cinema less Sorry to donate money to these works.

in conclusion? Well, cliché: in the end, the best things to come out of America are still indie films, made as humble and genuine as possible. nomadic landwhich doesn’t fool anyone and offers simple, authentic cinema with real emotion and a genuinely critical view of reality.