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.

  • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead
    hexbear
    60
    5 months ago

    Actually it was that you should provoke infighting between reactionaries so you can stage a coup and seize power

    • dead [he/him]
      hexbear
      14
      5 months ago

      The barbies don't "stage a coup". They hold a vote to "restore the constitution". The effort is lead by Weird Barbie. Weird Barbie is played by Kate McKinnon, who is most known for her work doing impressions of women politicians on SNL. On SNL, Kate Mckinnon played roles such as Hillary Clinton and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. So you have massive lib actor Kate McKinnon leading a vote to "restore the constitution". "Restore the constitution"/"restore democracy" being liberal slogans. This could not be more lib coded unless they started chanting "it's her turn".

      Watch the clip.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ctMOI98Mxk

  • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
    hexbear
    33
    5 months ago

    No the message at the end of the Barbie Movie was go to the gynecologist.

  • jabrd [he/him]
    hexbear
    21
    5 months ago

    You say that like there’s better politics in other movies

    • sir_this_is_a_wendys [he/him]
      hexbear
      11
      5 months ago

      Please don't crucify me for saying this, but I always felt like when I learned about Marxism and how the world actually runs it kind of had parallels to The Matrix.

      I haven't watched it in a long time, but aspects of it stuck with me.

  • @Sinistar
    hexbear
    20
    5 months ago

    Isn't the part after that Barbie rejecting living in the Barbie world? Like, she recognizes that that world is fake and chooses to live in the real one instead. That felt more like the "point" of the movie to me - stop playing with dolls and thinking that there's a simple solution to patriarchy. Unfortunately there was no scene where Barbie joins a Maoist guerilla group but maybe they're saving that for the sequel.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
    hexbear
    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]
      hexbear
      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]
        hexbear
        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_Dead
        hexbear
        6
        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]
      hexbear
      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]
        hexbear
        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.

  • Cherufe [he/him]
    hexbear
    17
    5 months ago

    Lol no

    The final challenge could have been anything, the point was to have some deadline to give urgency to the plot.

    It could perfectly been a beachvolleyball match and it wouldnt have changed the plot at all. But in that case you would have posts on this site saying "The mesage of Barbie is that women need to get better at volleyball to defeat patriarchy".

    • puff [comrade/them]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      10
      5 months ago

      You're reaching soooo far. Sorry if you loved the movie but the message was literally that women should vote and then ban men from voting. It's embarrassing.

      • Cherufe [he/him]
        hexbear
        16
        5 months ago

        If that was the message you would think the movie would have more than 2 scenes developing it and it would have been a part of the arc of the main character

        I didnt love the movie btw, my comment was more about how just because a movie has a vote in it it doesnt mean its about vote

        • puff [comrade/them]
          hexagon
          hexbear
          4
          5 months ago

          https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/01/24/hillary-clinton-oscars-snubs-barbie-greta-gerwig-margot-robbie/72338878007/

  • BeanBoy [she/her]
    hexbear
    17
    5 months ago

    Probably not the intent of the movie but I’m choosing to believe that doing it in a fake world where the laws of reality don’t apply and everything is literally plastic was part of the point

  • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    8
    5 months ago

    I thought it was going in a pretty amusing way, had a voter apathy bit for barbie and shit. Then it really fumbled it into WE GOTTA SAVE THE CONSTITUTION which was both expected and dumb.

  • Fishroot [none/use name]
    hexbear
    7
    5 months ago

    The message in the movie is that voting works hence confirming it is a work of fiction.

    Also Mattel is literally the deep state

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
    hexbear
    6
    5 months ago

    It was a commercial with some tepid liberalism 🥱

    Mattel has multiple movies in the works agony-shivering

    But don’t fall prey to my ideals and please continue to still enjoy dumb shit y’all, my brain is absolutely broken

  • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]
    hexbear
    4
    5 months ago

    I always figured that because Barbie world was the opposite of our world, the fact that voting worked in Barbie world means that it doesn't in the real world. Like I thought the whole "lol just vote them out, they're not even paying attention" bit was supposed to show how silly thinking that's how the real world works is - like a child's understanding of politics.

  • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
    hexbear
    2
    5 months ago

    Also love the part where she apologizes to Ken for pushing him to be misogynistic and create patriarchy. Because misogyny is always actually women's fault