The Barbies pokemon-go to the polls and vote out the Kens. It's mind-numbingly stupid. Remember how that strategy went in 2016? It doesn't deserve the awards.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]20•5 months ago

    the politics were utterly incoherent. for me the really resonant part was where barbie meets her creator. i thought that was really well done.

    • HamManBad [he/him]14•5 months ago

      I thought that was weird and I didn't understand what was going on. Like yeah the sentiment was nice but where the heck are they, wasn't this a chase scene?

      • regul [any]15•5 months ago

        Look. There's a pocket universe connected to Santa Monica where Barbie lives, and there's a pocket universe in the basement of Mattel's headquarters where an eternal Ruth Handler lives. What's not to get?

      • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead6•5 months ago

        Barbieland is a manifestation of the collective unconscious of all humans who have ever played with Barbies. So it's kinda like The Pale in Disco Elysium.

    • Rom [he/him]14•5 months ago

      I don't think the politics were supposed to make sense. Like the whole point is that Barbieland is a "child playing with dolls" view of how the world works.

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]8•5 months ago

        yeah i mean it was self aware and tongue-in-cheek about that, but that made it worse for me, not better. like i'm tired of movies and TVs that are written solely to provide material for twitter threads.