Pink sky for foreign cinema and not only, which the director Lady Bird (English)2007) and Small woman (2019) Greta Gerwig, with her Barbie, buckets of bold and chromatically dazzling images are a mixture of musical energy and explosive emotionality that take the work to the top of the world box office.
Gerwig plays with her spectacular screenplay, co-written with her partner, Noah Baumbach, splitting public opinion in two, but who, willy-nilly, is destined to hit the mark.
Of course, we have before us a film that is not simple and not suitable for the understanding of a very young audience, despite the fact that the title on the poster deviates from the existing content. Stereotypes and patriarchy, these are the film’s pilot themes: a pink banner waving by the director, loudly shouting for gender equality rights.
Gerwig, aims at moral redemption fashion Dolls, a focus on normality as true perfection, therefore far from the idea of ​​provocative and flawless canonical beauty, which is a real contribution to the first decline in female self-esteem; A live action, thereby placing the stereotypical fair-haired prototype in the human light, bringing it closer to the true female nature, thereby trying to overshadow the current thought pointing the finger at the house Mattel, blaming him as the cause of preadolescent psychophysical malaise through a cult doll.
The film is set in the sparkling plastic world of Barbieland, where the stereotypical Barbie and other characters live their lives of glitter and beauty. However, things start to take a different turn when the protagonist, played by the flawless and naive Margot Robbie (who, if not her), begins to experience thoughts of death, slowly changing her impeccable appearance, spoiling it. They are the result of anxieties and experiences that disturb the human child, the owner of the doll, thereby transferring all their negative energy to her. To return perfection to her world, the stereotypical Barbie will have to go through the portal that separates her from the world of people, and then find her mistress of the game and return the radiance to her thoughts, but once there, in the company of the faithful ken, embodied insecure Ryan Gosling and a real protagonist in his own way in everything, he will understand that real life is not as simple as he could imagine.
Gerwig’s chamber it becomes a catalyst and an emotional vehicle through its close-ups that capture a new emotionality in Robbie’s face, clad in a renewed liquor of human emotional fragility, but which relentlessly clashes and clashes with the fake pink Barbieland set that envelops her. Scenes that fully reflect the thought Mattel, filled and set with various accessories produced by the House, becoming in a certain sense a subconscious receptacle for the viewer’s eyes, filling the mind with distant and perhaps nostalgic memories, but which (not to fall into controversy) recalls a massive marketing strategy designed to use the emotions of the public, aimed at for relevance to the media.
Greta Gerwig plays the trick, excites the mind of the viewer, entertaining him, introducing into the genre of cinema references to various Hollywood films, sometimes hidden, almost inviting the viewer to discover others, exposed instead in explicit form.
Let’s seeTo Ryan Gosling imitate John Travolta in the musical Randal Kleiser, Lubricant (1978) or Ben Stiller, protagonist and feature film director Zoolander (2001). Gosling, thanks to his natural creative vocation, he easily convinces even with his musical abilities. Member and founder of a rock band Dead Sea bones, (guitar and voice), the Canadian actor proved his confidence by also performing two songs, both in the film La La Land (English) 2016), From Damien Chazelle, With Emma Stone AND Blue Valentine From Derek Cianfrance2012). A versatile and accomplished artist, here in Gerwig’s film, the actor changes the fate of Ken’s character., who is destined by nature to take the role of the shoulder of her fair-haired partner, decentralizing the center of attention on her and bursting onto the stage with her explosive energy and gentle facial expressions as a lover (or, perhaps, as an emotional drug addict).
A detonating charge with the risk of addiction for the viewer is, of course, the presence of a sound accompaniment that turns the scenery into Broadway scenes; Dua Lipa, with her dance the night strong appeal that flows into the pop culture of the 70s and Lizzo, With Pink, they become energetic for hearing, which enter into humor audience, making his most carefree emotional strings vibrate. However, what slightly dampens the gripping mood of the film is the narrative structure, which lacks linearity; we observe an accordion transition between the first projection time and the second, both in relation to the emotional states of the characters and in relation to the space-time of events. In the second act, the expositional structure accelerates sharply, everything becomes too fast compared to the beginning of the vision, which in the first case maintained an explanatory flow with a slow rhythm, bringing clarity to both images and meaning. content.
No matter what, if Greta Gerwig with her Barbie performed a miracle, shaking the audience out of the stupor of laziness, in order to return it to the hall, yes a cap (choose the model that best suits you). His work, whether it is the result of a propaganda thought or a comedy dressed in luxurious and shiny pink plastic, is certainly a film that can amuse the viewer, but also lead him into a secluded shadow of reflection with a message that praises the joy of simplicity and beauty of life, which, no matter how imperfect and not always rosy, it was worth it to live as it is.
release date: July 20, 2023
Type: Adventure, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Year: 2023
DirectionStory by: Greta Gerwig
actorsCast: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Will Ferrell, Ana Cruz Kane, Emma McKee, Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Simu Liu, Nkuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Jamie Demetriou, Connor Swindells, Sharon Rooney, Nicola Coughlan, Ritu Arya, Helen Mirren, Emerald Fennell, Dua Lipa
Village: USA, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Distribution: Warner Bros.
ScreenplayPeople: Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
PhotoStory by: Rodrigo Prieto
Assembly: Nick Howey
MusicCast: Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
Production: Heyday Films, LuckyChap Entertainment, Mattel Films, Mattel, Warner Bros. Pictures