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Aug. 5th, 2023 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessI went to see Barbie last week, and I’ve been finding it a bit difficult to capture what I want to say about it, when so much has been said by others already. I really enjoyed it, myself (there are musical numbers! I was reminded of MGM musicals early on!! Ryan Gosling made me laugh a lot!!!) I’m less interested in what male film critics have to say about this film than usual, even ones I rate, because I don’t think they’ll have the same sense of recognition of some of what’s on the screen. The auditorium was packed and overwhelmingly female. Some of the younger girls there are going to keep finding things that they didn’t get this time when they watch it again.
Margot Robbie has to be the film’s beating heart (such huge respect for her as producer.) It’s telegraphed who the girl whose thoughts of death and cellulite were being transmitted to Barbie as she plays with her is. I enjoyed the moments of tenderness among the satire and silliness. This is a film that remembers how girls played. I had one Barbie and she probably did end up in a Weird Barbie state, while I think Sindy probably influenced my ideas of beauty, especially in the face, more, but it was the fact that I couldn’t get a doll of Amy from A-Team and had to make do with a Hannibal one that may have been the most telling doll incident from my childhood.
Oh, and as I really wanted to see this from when the trailer first dropped, but was doubtful I could go and see it at the cinema for Reasons, I was really chuffed that I could.
Margot Robbie has to be the film’s beating heart (such huge respect for her as producer.) It’s telegraphed who the girl whose thoughts of death and cellulite were being transmitted to Barbie as she plays with her is. I enjoyed the moments of tenderness among the satire and silliness. This is a film that remembers how girls played. I had one Barbie and she probably did end up in a Weird Barbie state, while I think Sindy probably influenced my ideas of beauty, especially in the face, more, but it was the fact that I couldn’t get a doll of Amy from A-Team and had to make do with a Hannibal one that may have been the most telling doll incident from my childhood.
Oh, and as I really wanted to see this from when the trailer first dropped, but was doubtful I could go and see it at the cinema for Reasons, I was really chuffed that I could.
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Date: 2023-08-05 12:14 pm (UTC)OMG, right?!
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