Warner Bros.’ Barbie — in theaters July 21st — from director Greta Gerwig is an ambitious and impeccably styled piece of feminist storytelling despite Mattel’s meddling.
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This movie shows the plights of women and lots of stereotypes about women. The question is, if you're making a feminist film, why would you start with one of the most stereotypical things? That's because if you want to br...
But Barbie fits perfectly into director Greta Gerwig�s repertoire of women-focused stories, which includes two Oscar-nominated coming of age films,Ladybird(2017) andLittle Women(2019). Gerwig is a feminist filmmaker whose characters are curious, transgressive and rebel against their restrictive circ...
The Barbie movie swept across the world and became the highest grossing movie of 2023, but it is also considered a controversial film, as the public and academic discourses around it show. Can Barbie be feminist? Is Barbie feminist enough? The expectations levied against the movie come from ...
One Mattel exec visited the film’s set to “argue” over a scene, while another said that this is “not a feminist movie,” according to a new Time magazine cover.
The movie also has great music that makes me want to dance. Barbie is already friends with her two fashion stylists at the beginning of the movie, but is uneasy around her rival Raquelle. Raquelle is jealous of Barbie, so what will happen when they get twisted up in this magical world ...
At the end of the movie, Barbie has put off the unreality of dollhood, but she knows there is more. Who is she, if not an object, a product? Barbie comes face to face with her creator (real life Barbie inventor, Ruth Handler) and tells her that she wants more than to be an ide...
While there are always things that I could have wanted more from, the fact that theBarbiemovie was made is a miracle. The project has changed many hands, with many having a different approach to how they want to tackle this toy icon. ...
A synopsis for the movie reveals that Robbie's Barbie doll is expelled from Barbie Land "for not being perfect enough", leading to the doll setting off on "an adventure in the real world." This could be where the human characters could come into play, but with the plot still largely be...