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.
Actually it was that you should provoke infighting between reactionaries so you can stage a coup and seize power
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
Uh, I was mostly joking but this vote they stage did involve excluding a reactionary class from the election, so still a coup sorta.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
You can confirm it by buying a copy of Barbie on Blu-Ray or something. 😐
spoiler
(But, yes, the last line was literally about going to a gynecologist appointment.)
And take away their voting rights until they're 'ready'
No the message at the end of the Barbie Movie was go to the gynecologist.
that movie is much better if you imagine it as Willem Dafoe and Matt Damon trying to escape the set of The Great Wall
For a good soviet film that is both humorous but also provides poignant social commentary about oppressive systems I would recommend kin-dza-dza!
its good.Gentlemen of Fortune. Has nothing to do with poignant social commentary or Barbie, I just want to mention it because I fucking love it
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.
the politics were utterly incoherent. for me the really resonant part was where barbie meets her creator. i thought that was really well done.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
Didn't that whitewash the history of her creator committing tax fraud by joking about it?
Is anyone supposed to give a fuck that the barbie creator bailed on taxes 50 years 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".
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.
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
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/01/24/hillary-clinton-oscars-snubs-barbie-greta-gerwig-margot-robbie/72338878007/
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
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.
The message in the movie is that voting works hence confirming it is a work of fiction.
Also Mattel is literally the deep state
It was a commercial with some tepid liberalism 🥱
Mattel has multiple movies in the works
But don’t fall prey to my ideals and please continue to still enjoy dumb shit y’all, my brain is absolutely broken
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.
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
