Barbie: The WOKEST Movie Of The Year??
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2023
- So I watched the new Barbie movie this weekend and oh boy, do I have thoughts. Did the movie stay true to Barbie’s original wholesome message that “girls can do anything,” or did we end up with two hours of woke feminist propaganda? Let’s get into it.
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I felt bad for Ken the whole time. They say a patriarchy is bad because it oppresses wmen ...but the matriarchy is good because it oppresses men? Makes no sense
The left is obsessed with the idea that two demographics, White people and men, are born with a unique, biological predisposition to evil. So to answer your question, yes.
@@hornydolphin7953 sp you’re saying little girls would see the men in their lives as trash? Sounds very misogynistic of you
@@hornydolphin7953fair enough on the Barbie world half. Would that hold through for the "real world" half?
@@hornydolphin7953o you think little girls absolutely hate all men and and want girls to competent dominate them? And if that’s how it’s “supposed to be seen” then why in the real world all the men do is sexually harass women and are nothing but idiots? You think that’s how all little girls see the real world too?
say what?! did you not notice how the males literally oppressed/brainwashed/forced the women to serve, and the worst thing to happen to the men is that they were ignored?
As a woman in the real world, at least in AMERICA, I can say I have never felt oppression for my gender. Well...until trans people become mainstream.
bro trans people did nothing to you
@kyokindakute Trans people lead to biological men invading womens spaces (Womens sports, all girl schools, etc) and a lot of women are not ok with that. In the case of sports the inherent physical advantage of transwoman has led to them dominating woman sports and taking opportunities away from biological women.
What does this have to do with the plot of the movie 😭
🔔 🔔
@@kyokindakute They did nothing for her either... In fact, they've done nothing good at all... But, you seem like the one who dates one and thinks he convinced everyone it was actually a real woman...
I think this movie showed very well the unfairness of both patriarchy AND extreme feminism
Exactly 👏👏
not extreme, but just feminism in general
feminism has NEVER been about equality
Matriarchy
@@ameliawinters2325 yup I should have used that word its more precise!
@@rafae5902 well yes it has been about equality its just getting crazier and crazier
Spoiler: I love Barbies message to Ken "Your girlfriend should not be your identity, you should have your own"
Where in the real world men find identity in their girlfriend..?
@@titassedits1460a lot of them, their “manliness” comes from their status, wealth, and women. They would feel whole as a man if those three things are achieved. That’s why Barbie said “you’re not your girlfriend, you’re not your house, you’re not your mink”
@@titassedits1460my ex lol
Is that a new thing? I thought everyone in 2023 should know this by now! How lame!
@@titassedits1460 that's not a man thing, a lot of people lose their identity around their partners. It doesn't matter if they are hetero, gay, bisexual, trans, cis or whatever. And not just around their partners, their family, their friends. But losing your self trying to fit in the "role" of the "girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever" of the person you like/love or you believe you love is something really human.
Sometimes it's a gain, a lot of times it's just a lot of pressure, and can be really unhealthy.
I took the message as both matriarchy and patriarchy are bad and that it's healthier to find approval in yourself just as you are. 🤷🏽♀️
Its a crappy message. Patriarchy is impossible without religion. Religion has offered stability to humanity cross-culturally for centuries and continues to do so. Strong families make strong nations. Kids want a hard father and a soft mother. Communism is taught and isnt natural.
@@rahulkulkarni536 the only thing religion has done is brainwash people to hide the truth from them, force normal people to shove their mental retardness on others, justify the rape and molest little children and kill anyone who questions them.
Same
Extremes are bad. The movie isn't that deep. Lol
Yea
I was so thrilled for Barbie to go to the real world and be shocked... Not by patriarchy, but the fact that jumping off of a building will land you in hospital, not perfectly on your feet... Missed opportunity for an incredible comedy piece.
Yeah. The fish out of water angle would’ve been nice
Hahahahaha best comment 😂
Barbie already experienced that in Barbie land. No way she would try again in the real world where she knows things are different 😆
Yeah!! I thought the movie was gonna be like thirteen going on thirty or legally blonde and it was not that. I appreciated the comedy for what it is but the messaging was so awful.
Pffft💀
Strange how you left out that at the end, Barbie apologizes to Ken about how he was left out and acknowledges the pain and rejection he felt. And remember it's a movie about dolls in a fictional world without crime, complex emotion, or even sex. The movie is satire and isn't supposed to be some blueprint of how we should function in the real world.
I only agree that it's definitely not a children's movie.
I havent seen it. I think you make a good point. The doll was intended for children to roleplay and learn outside of the real world. Barbie didnt have a cartoon that I remember, her "voice" was created in the heads of children. Greta clearly wanted to replace THAT voice with the voice of feminism, with this movie... which is the problem I think people have with it. The implication that feminists live "In Barbieland" will stick. Feelings about Barbie movie directly reflect your views on feminism itself, if we are being honest.
Lol a nice 1min wrap up to blaming him and shitting on him for 2hrs
Clearly you missed the message of this video and the movie
Strange how you think belittling and bashing Men for 2 hours is all forgiven because she apologized in the last few minutes of the film. That's like bashing and belittling Men for years and then finally apologizing after basically destroying everything good about him.
@@TheSnakehunter If you watched it, you would know that the movie isn't just bashing men for two hours and women are made fun of just as much. And nothing about Ken was destroyed, he just wasn't allowed to be a dictator anymore. But he did learn to find his own identity, gain self worth and understand that he doesn't need to take from others or be extraordinary to have value. And the ways of Barbieland did change to include the Kens (not complete equality, because remember it's satire).
I think a lot of people miss the main point of the movie. It was never about Matriarchy vs Patriarchy. First remember, where Matriarchy exists in this movie, Barbieland - a dreamland for little girls that does not reflect the real world. Second, by the end of the movie, the old lady straight out said that Patriarchy and Barbieland(which is Matriarchy) are concepts made by humans to cope with the discomfort of life. Third, Barbie herself in the end decided to leave Barbieland to embrace the real world. She even stated that she doesn't want to be the concept, she wants to be human. The main point was never about Matriarchy vs Patriarchy, it's about moving on from these concepts and working on yourself. We can see in real life how people are so caught up in chasing social justice that they just want to play the victim instead of actually working on improving themselves to gain the power to change their own lives. Be like Barbie, stop chasing those childish fantasies while forcing the world to follow them, embrace the real world for what it truly is, and start working on yourself.
Human society has NEVER been run men or women exclusively.
Thank you for this! I genuinely feel ppl missed z point. The way i understood it is diffferent from yours (and certainly not like what z ppl of yt are saying ) but your point of view was a very refreshing one too
To be honest there were a few scenes that were really hard to watch like having the mother explain to barbie how hard it is for all women in comparison to all men, for like 5 minutes straight. Every dude in the movie is literally a "villain" besides Michael Cera and even then they portrayed him as a female except for that one poorly done fight scene.
I interpreted this movie in just about the same way.
I didn't see it as Matriarchy beats Patriarchy: The Movie, like most people did but rather a clever movie exploring the excesses of both hyperfeminist & immature masculocentric ideology.
At the end of the day, Barbie encourages us to become independent thinkers (people capable of creating meaning) ans bound by ideology (the thing that is made).
9 yr old boys are leaving this movie saying that movie made them feel bad about being a boy….. something ducked up is clearly being pushed to the kids…. It really doesn’t matter how adults interpret it… it’s about how kids interpreted it
as a Child i thought ken was supposed to be the perfect boyfriend, a gentleman like a prince, intelligent brave and strong like the perfect man. and barbie was the best perfect girl, she could do anything and everything from cooking to being a surgeon same with ken the barbie world was just a utopia. I played barbie my entire childhood, is sad to see they were not equal and were actually just stupid.
To me they ARE equal and this joke of a movie does NOT exist!
And I'm, a woman and I am NOT miserable!! I love dressing up, wearing makeup, I even wear pink sometimes and I loved both my Barbies and Kens
(sings): I enjoy being a girl!
As a child I only had some kind of bootleg brand "Ken" who actually was depicted as a prince, so you might be on to something there
They are toys folks. Good grief!
It would have been great if Ruth told Barbie that Ken was named after her son aka "Ken is your brother Barbie...if you are annoyed by him its because he is kinda your little brother. He wants to protect you and he cares about you. He also deserves kindness, love and respect." Have the mom go bug eyed with a 'Luke and Leia" refrence.
Then if Barbie helps organize the Kens having Dojo Casa Dream Houses realizing he was acting out feeling like he did not belong.
I always thought thought Ken was feminine and later years gay lol I thought the
Movie nailed that
Another Irony is that the only reason Ken brought the Patriarchy to Barbie Land was because of how badly the Barbies treated the Kens.
And because he thought patriarchy was all about horses, lol.
The movie is being ironic and reversing the roles. The pendulum should swing.
It's the fact that people don't seem to get that was the whole point like huh. You're meant to feel bad for the Kens lol
That’s the whole point you were supposed to feel bad for the Ken’s then realise that’s what women have gone through for decades in the end they decided to be more equal
@@r.1.336 I thought it would have been more than obvious. This movie was really good.
Sasha (Gloria’s daughter) and her friends were the Bratz dolls. They looked like them, had the same names, and Sasha is told to “Destroy Barbie” like the Bratz dolls were supposed to destroy the Barbies.
I didn't catch that lmao
More reason to hate the Barbie movie. How DARE they disrespect the superiority that is Bratz!!!
honestly the message that i got from this film was that you can be your own person, you don’t have to rely on someone whether it’s a man or woman to feel like your worth something. like ken realized at the end that he didn’t need Barbie to feel like he had worth, that’s how everyone should think. i don’t think the creators of the film wanted us to think that women are dumb or that men lack personality, they wanted to show us how stupid it is to have that mindset in OUR real world. because women are often viewed as stupid in society and no good except for taking care of their men.
Oppenheimer is about 80% political and was still less political than Barbie.
Nail it
They really blew it on Barbie. It should have been a fun, feel good, singing, dancing, chick movie with a story about jealousy, relationships and friends. Like Grease.
That’s not true. It’s just that you agreed with the politics of Oppenheimer (or perhaps misunderstood them) and disagreed with those of Barbie.
@@jennifer5512 literally 😭 land that's okay like no need to lie about it
They literally were speaking against government in the movie and what you expect from actuall history based movie that is related to government?
Did I imagine the last part of the movie where Barbie encourages Ken to find himself? That way they both could be a compliment to each other and the world. I took that part of the movie to show that neither a patriarchy or matriarchy are good and that we are meant to compliment each other.
You didn't imagine it! I'm waiting for them to start selling "I am Kenough" shirts.
you didn't, that's the letteral whole message of the move. I'm not a big Feminist but all these people are making this way more then it actually is.
they say it's "Man Hating" Yet Ken (Ryan Gosling) has been the biggest fan Favorite even Over Barbie
@@katielee7364 Ken was the favorite because the audience connected with him.
But the film continues to present him as stupid, dumb and useless.
So yes man hating.
I feel like people missed this part because they were so blinded by the 'man hating' things
@@pratikgaikwad7472 I've seen plenty of movies where they make women Ditzy, useless, and just used as eye candy but you guys stay silent about that, but when men are the target it's all of a sudden Bad.
you were meant to connect with him, At no point in the movie was I ever thinking lol "Dumb Men" they are literal children toys at the end of it, even the Barbie's act silly and childish. and lets be 100% honest not many people had Ken Dolls so in real world sense the ken Dolls were pretty useless, that's why the ken dolls didn't have established lives in Barbieland.
and if you really want to get in it, the CEO of Mattel character could have been a super evil bad guy especially if the movie is as Anti men as you guys are claiming, yet he wasn't and was actually a decent guy at the end.
I do think that you may have missed a deeper message. The director swapped the societal/stereotypical roles of men and women in Barbieland, which is why the Kens had no real deep character, were dumb and pointless, and simply existed to be with Barbies. The point was to show how women are portrayed historically in film, stories and society. If you think they were saying that men were pointless, they were actually trying to get the audience to think about "if roles were reversed" and men were portrayed in film as women typically are.
We can definitely agree to disagree, but this film is a satire. it is supposed to be extreme, over-the-top and excessive to make a point. I left the film feeling like the deeper message was that both matriarchy and patriarchy are not what we should be striving for, rather, true equality and balance of decision-making in society is what is best. Any extreme (extreme feminism or extreme misogyny) is not good for society.
Why did they kill Barbie at the end tho?
EXACTLY !!! you are correct !! @laurenchantel1482
@@olg06 no one was killed ...she wanted to actually be more than just an idea
@@captundergarments Barbie was a plastic doll that could live forever. But stereotypical Barbie left Barbieland. In the last scene her name is now Barbara and she wasn't wearing pink. Now that she is human she will grow old and die. R.I.P pink princess. I like how everyone in the movie theater wore pink at her funeral. 😭
@@olg06I would say stereotypical Barbie "died" bc stereotypes should not prevail. We should not be afraid to challenge and overcome them. If the stereotype dies or rather becomes human, it could stand for the idea of "killing"/debunking stereotypes and seeing the human behind the stereotype.
If I were a man I would be highly insulted by this movie. They portrayed men as stupid , easily distracted , manipulated and outmaneuvered ….in addition to being unnecessary to women. Felt sorry for Ken the entire movie. I didn’t see the equality she speaks about at the end of the movie.
The marketing was brilliant. If they had actually shown in trailers what this movie was about it would have cratered
I'd love to agree - but the wokes watching would have lapped up anything that puts men down. A crap-fest.
@@stevekirkby6570I think what they were getting at is that there are less people on the left who are that extreme or truly believe the values expressed in the barbie movie than we would think
After hearing what it's really about, I'm not going to see it. WTF?
@@staciecarlson191 I knew it was bad news ever since I heard it was rated PG-13! Pg-13 in a movie about a DOLL?!
I wonder how many mothers took their young daughters, having not heard of the rating, and their jaws hit the floor.
Exactly, Margot described it perfectly by saying it's a Trojan Horse
To the moms out there, just remember that when you say all men are trash that you're talking about your sons.
Sadly no one even knows the word misandry. The western world is anti male and men are actually oppressed but the media spins it to the opposite.
Yes and if they grow up to be trash, no one to blame but you and their father.
Pretty sure some woke moms still don't care, which is pretty sad.
As a mother of sons I can tell you those moms don’t care about the boys. At least until they graduate from college and come sniffing around looking for husbands for their spoiled lazy daughters.
@@rusinoe8364exactlyyyy there are sooo many toxic moms these days its saddening
Omg I felt the same way about the Chevy product placement 😂
I actually thought the movie made fun of “wokeness” in some ways! I appreciated the way they portrayed the daughter’s “wokeness” because they made her look super snarky with how quick she was to jump to conclusions, cancel Barbie, calling her a fascist, etc. and how she was wrong about it in the end.
On another note, I think it’s a bit ignorant to say the patriarchy doesn’t exist. Sure, the movie exaggerated it but I think the point is that matriarchy / man hating isn’t the answer either. I thought the movie was mostly about being anti-extreme and finding middle ground. At least that’s what I took away from it!
Woke dont know they're woke!
Patriarchy doesn't exist. Mother's job is literally to teach their son his morals, women are the ones who teach men how to be men as children...why would patriarchy exist if women bear and raise the future generation?
Yes!!! Thank you!!! 👏👏👏
Nope at the end Ken's asked for seat in the gov which was declined. It's a reactionary movie through and through. From that it won't take long until the Ken's are beach bums without houses again. A positive ending in western understanding would be a mutual share of power and not a return to Barbie matriarchy.
Thank you! I have always believed that the angry feminists are byproducts of the patriarchy, feminine roles have been belittled by men in the past generations and made women hate their true feminine nature, therefore you got feminists seeking control and masculine roles.
Heard all the commentary about how "woke" this film is. Was ready to fully roll my eyes at every scene. Instead, I loved it! I think it's very tongue-in-cheek how it represents the issues facing women and to some extent, men. It was more about the human experience in my opinion. How to find your self, your purpose.
Hated it! Everytime patriarchy, nonsense was mentioned. Ferreras constant complaining and her monologue. Her annoying daughter, Ken being a lame simpl. NO.,
Agreed. ❤
I agree. I thought the movie made it abundantly clear that oppressing men is just as awful as oppressing women. Both are bad and lead to bad things.
Yeah, in a good way, I think It was very existential, abstract and absurdist. Like thinking is at the beginning of life. The art was great.
Yup you’re feminist
I think the point of the movie was that barbie was unhappy in a patriarchy and ken was unhappy in a mariarchy. So the two genders should really be equal. Neither a female nor a male character should be there as just a love interest.
The movie is supposed to make you uncomfortable and make you think. When I played with barbies as a kid, I really though I could be whatever I wanted and wear whatever i wanted. When you grow up, you realize that its not that easy. It reminded me of how I used to dream and imagine, and how that innocence is lost. People grow up and get old. You learn about death. You realize that a big part about being a woman is going to the gyno and taking care of yourself. Its not all glamor and happiness all the time.
No, it presents the real world as a tyrannical patriarchy which it is not...the premise is fundamentally incorrect...all the rational people, which, thankfully exist more on youtube than fb/twitter (I should say ALL THE BASIC FUNCTIONING PEOPLE) are accurately pointing their fingers at things like you...get off this planet for existing, let alone speaking...and take all the Barbie Crew & Fans with you
If that was the core message then it shouldn't have ended back in a matriarchy but rather an equal & democratic society. It also should have shown the clear faults of both genders and societies (Matriarchy/Patriarchy). Giving a clear showing that neither is perfect and that they each stand to gain/learn from one another. Instead it tries to make men look like tools/boy toys/power hungry dictators or generally offensive human beings with the patriarchal society being a mess while the matriarchal society is peaceful & clean. It paints a clear picture that the writers message was "Patriarchy/Men Bad. Matriarchy/Women Good."
Yeah that may have been the point, but the way that they represented the real world as a man's paradise is absurd. I think that's the part that really triggered me, I admit. Because I'm a guy, I might be biased here (lol), but I don't seem to encounter these priviledges of being a man too much, I still have to worry about my physical saftey in public just like women, I do not automatically get leadership positions, I spend most of my life in doors looking at screens and working my ass off to pay rent and help my wife and I have a better life, and funnily enough my bosses are both women! I don't resent anything about it and I love my life. However I was truly disturbed by how they represented real life in Barbie, because it might mean that half of the world's population is in a deep state of resentment, that's not good.
The moment when ken realizes how good patriarchy is and how easy it is to be a man, made me eye roll hard. Way to alienate so many people in your audience.
I’m not sure that’s the message. I think it’s man hating propaganda just like everything else nowadays
Going to the gyno is a big part of being a women?? Bigger than your dreams and aspirations?
“It’s impossible to be a woman.” Well yes when you can’t define what that is, quite impossible to meet the definition.
I got an ad break immediately after she said that. The ad? What Is A Woman by Matt Walsh.
It is a person with a bonus hole
Sometimes I get these thoughts in the middle of the night, as I wake in a cold sweat: when everyone is a woman, no one will be...
If they really hate being women they should transition to men lmao
Trans people aren’t the ones deleting women
Amala, how could you miss that it was all a SATIRE OF RADICAL FEMINISM?
Idk, maybe the fact that they had a fat barbie, trans barbie, a lot of gay kens, 3 scenes where Margot Robbie is crying about how hard it is for women and the fact that all the men are dmb asf.
It was not.
@@ortega9156the “trans barbie” is not canonically trans and the kens were not gay. It’s so obvious seeing that literally all of them were going out on dates with the barbies
@@moudygoody5581 They literally made a scene dedicated for the trans barbie to be looked by Ryan gosling and say you're fine the way you are. No one disagrees, but they literally hit all the woke points so much that it was way too forced and made the movie legitimately mediocre. Also some of the Kens did not have a gf. When they were singing in a circle and swapped girlfriends, a few of the Kens had no girls next to them, which who cares , but denying some of the Kens weren't gay is like saying grass is the color blue
@@joshthegoodson Eh. I'm proving someone wrong. Wouldn't say that's pressed. You're probably a very feminine man to be defensive for "barbie" 😂
I kind of liked the movie and I even felt that some of the messaging was not stereotypically woke. I interpreted the Barbie world as the world I used to play in with my girlfriends. We all were bosses, and Nobel prize winners, lawyers and etc. and Kens were - well just Kens. None of us had a Ken, and love interests were just a faraway thought and not even needed. I kind of laughed when Ken’s seemed to have no home and just appeared from time to time as a side character - because that was exactly how we played.
Some of the positive snip bits: America Ferrera character’s husband was nice and supportive, Ken’s decided that they worth is not determined by Barbies, Barbie decided to live in the real world, the female doctor that had Ken escorted from the building.
Finally, as someone that live not in America, related to Ferrera’s speech that you must be thin, but never on diet, be perfect, but wear no visible make-up and many others. Also, although Mattel board room was comical, it was more comical because I have been in such rooms.
The opposite of misogyny is misandry
This word is so underused that it's almost like it doesn't exist... Overton window is real and rough.
…no?
@@juanis8219 ...yes?
And today's feminism is filled with both!
@@AHSears agreed
Why not just have Barbie help this woman heal her inner child and be done with it?
Would have been infinitely better as a movie.
Isn't that the premise for Disney's Life Size with Tyra Banks?
That's exactly what i thought.
Because then they wouldn't be able to push THE MESSAGE. That's why
@@GrySgtBubba I laughed so hard , 🤣
I remember I watched Barbie and Oppenheimer the same day, and I chooses to watch Barbie first because I thought it was going to make me feel happy before all the Oppenheimer depression. I felt so uncomfortable during the majority of the movie and I even considered just leaving the theater. My reaction was literally, “what the hell did I just watched?” I don’t want to sound insensitive, but that movie caused me a worse reaction than Oppenheimer.
I LOVED Ken. I felt like the movie was best around him and his struggle. When he sees Barbie is hurt by him taking over Barbieland and you see the hurt on his face when she isn't looking. But he needs to be cool and pretend it doesn't bother him. He loved her and he wanted those feelings returned. But mainly they wanted respect. I immediately bought a I'm Kenough shirt. I loved him and Ryan Gosling was amazing. You are right though. That daughter was insufferable. Ugh. I loved all the history of Barbie in there too. And Alan??? Omg I loved Alan. Lol
I hate when movies try so hard to make a statement. What happened to movie we could just watch for entertainment
Go see Oppenheimer. Nolan is king.
Yeah I agree. I was so excited for this film. I dressed up and everything and then they made it political and ruined it.
So sad ☹️ why did it have to be political? It’s a movie about a doll!
A plastic fashion doll. :(
They literally HATE entertainment and now that they have the helm they want to dump their mindset like that kid who thinks they’re cool.
I get the feeling that so many people in the entertaiment industry want to change the world, but their messages aren't as profound as they think they are.
Not everyone can be Metal Gear, Drakengard, or Ghost in the Shell. But there's no shame in being a campy Resident Evil or a solid superhero film like Batman Begins.
I've also been thinking about the Me Too movement and all of the allegations that came out in the entertainment industry, so maybe within the sphere of Hollywood this actually is what life is like. So maybe making content like this is their version of raging against the machine.
1. Art is for artist's expression primarily, Barthes be damned.
2. Most old movies and now simply the good ones don't beat you over the head with their message.
3. Their message isn't ideological. It's more like expressing a worldview or a certain opinion (like: war bad). This movie, however, is ideological. Ideology in itself is not intellectually honest or of any actual quality, and THAT'S why movies like that suck.
Barbie and Ken was always sold as a romance. It would have been a great story line to just show a real relationship where a woman follows her dream and her and Ken are in love and how you can have a healthy couple that pushes each other to be better..
My friend left the cinema almost in tears becuase she wanted Barbie and ken to be together so much.
When was Barbie and Ken sold as a romance?
@@echocloud1339I audibly gasped when Barbie rebuffed Ken. When I played with my dolls as a kid, they were always a power couple lol.
@@SA-ol6nv Always! It was only the 'joke' that Ken was her accessary. Ken was marketed as Barbie's boyfriend. They went on dates together and were romantically entangled in the cartoons. You're falling for revisionist history.
@@rinwesley3092 Ken was marketed as Barbie’s boyfriend, you’re right. But little girls didn’t beg for a ken. If they didn’t have one, they were just as happy. Because it was Barbie that actually mattered when playing. While he was marketed as her boyfriend, he was literally created for Barbie. It was a side idea to create Ken. Without Barbie, Ken would never have been created. Essentially, he is just an accessory in the Barbie world. Barbies will still be as successful without a Ken doll.
THANK YOU!!! You iterated so well what my brain was struggling through while watching the film. I felt personally violated and disgusting in my female body by the time the movie ended, and it helps to walk through this with you to process what for me was a very painful experience and to reassure myself that I'm not crazy in how disgusted I felt after watching the movie. (You also did a great job of pointing out the positive qualities in the movie while holding the film accountable for the messages it put out.)
it's just a movie, calm down.
Honestly, this movie will be used in the future in the classrooms... for discussion purposes. Its a great vehicle for discussion. Perhaps it deserves kudos for that alone.
Oh gosh, i hope not. Another potential reason I fear putting my kids in public school.
I feel like that would be very unlikely... But hey, I can't look into the future, can I?
It was annoyingly woke but man Ken was the best part about it. 😂 He was hilarious. If the messaging at the end just said hey both extremes are bad and we need each other for good things then I wouldn't have cared so much. both sides were so obnoxious it made it cartoonish.
The lady president of Barbieland DID say that things shouldn’t go back to the way they were before (as in, not excluding the kens). She did also refuse them higher career positions initially, so I dunno how much that matters, but the movie DID try to say both extremes were bad. It was just a muddled message.
@@schleepy6362 yea I guess that what I mean is I wish it was a little more plain but you're right.
@@schleepy6362then Greta Gerwig should have communicated that message better
They literally said that both extremes are bad, the joke at the end that kens will have as mich rights as women in the real world was just tryna make the viewers understand how feminism started back in the days where women were only given low positions but it’s getting better over time …
@@Glamoyr sounds like a petty revenge fantasy
I thought Barbie was going to be this decade’s ‘Legally Blonde’ but instead they made this mess
That made me cry because it was good 🙏. The director is gold
I think the drive-in theatre I went to thought the same thing. Seeing how the movie they played directly after WAS the original Legally Blonde. Which made the Barbie movie look more... crazy. Growing up I thought Legally Blonde was a superficial, yet fun, comedy. But showing directly after Barbie- LB actually had some substance to it.
I had the same hope. It failed miserably. 😔
They made a mess at the box office. What happened to people turning there back to feminism? Don’t like when people don’t agree with you? You are a snowflake
@@user-vw6ke3ok2mI’m not a right winger and I’m starting not to be left either 🤦🏻♀️ everything is going to the extremes..the left is now becoming what they hated about the right. They made so many commercials if this movie as if it was the only movie showing! And I guess if we don’t like what the left the woke whatever is called now we gotta be republicans and religious? Nope that’s not how things are supposed to be
Why are people freaking out about a movie about growing up and coming together? It’s just a movie, calm down.
tbh i liked the first few minutes of the movie, it felt like there was true potential to develop the storyline. as the movie kept going it felt more and more like one of those weird fever dreams. the final scene where she owns her feelings is touching but felt too serious compared to the rest of the movie.
I didn't get the dancing scene Kens did near the end. It felt like they were stalling to let Barbies prepare in their costumes backstage like theatre. Lol
@@user-zn1nn5xd1f yeah it wasn’t really clear why that scene was put in the movie.
@@jamesmazzara6051the movie is camp
Yeah I was really sad the entire movie, made me realize what other women went through
The Barbie movie would be better if Barbies and Kens just compete with each other without including some kind of "patriachy" or "matriachy" element that we don't want to see. 🙏
It would be fun to see a tournament of sorts
Yes, but then the movie would be apolitical "entertainment," instead of obnoxious, Dumb-o-crat sermonizing and propaganda. The latter is what Hollywood sadly seeks to create, nowadays.
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It would be better if they competed and then realised that they shouldn't be competing. They should be working together. They should have seen the real world, seen the Barbie world and realise that the two extremes are both toxic. 😒 But I'm going to watch the movie and ignore that element
Not worried about all the spoilers, because after your review and other truthful ones, I have no intention of ever seeing this movie.
I was going to see it with my mom but she said she didnt like it but we were still going to see it until I watched the trailer and others reviews (including this video) the movie wasn't even good it lost it purpose
Same. No intention of seeing it
Same. A friend and I wanted to have some girl time and she wants to see it but I’d rather spend my money at a coffee shop or brunch spot instead 🤷🏻♀️
How do you know what's truthful if you don't see it for yourself. Don't be a sheep.
@themetalpig7613 I know some hard core Barbie lovers who grew up and their girls love Barbie. She said it's not good
In my opinion it highlighted the difference between a patriarchal vs matriarchal world, and the message at the end was striving for balance and to focus on being a good human being fulfilling your own potential independently, regardless of sex.
Disrespecting men in the whole movie and then giving speech on equality at the end is crazy 😂😂
Just watched this movie and it made me feel very bad for Barbie and for Ken. They both end up alone and that feels strange and wrong. I feel like this movie destroyed my childhood 😅 Barbie and Ken were supposed to be soul mates, completely in love, strong together and completing each other! Humans are social creatures and we need the sense of belonging and being part of a family! This movie, totally destroyed that idea! I don't know what message they were supposed to bring to the world, honestly! Misogyny and feminism are two extremes that neither will help our world heal and be fair! Like, how could all the Barbies have dream houses but poor Kens were literally homeless? How is that supposed to be equal and fair? I am honestly so mad at this movie right know 😅
Barbie should have been left to the imagination of a child where she belongs. Don't let the movie mess with your fond memories of her.
Why can’t we just watch good solid movies anymore🤦♀️
Because they all went extinct
@@_aakkthat is a low bar to get over …
Or stick to some independent movies. They're good as watch the big bunch of movies when you can.
I'm just shocked that this Barbie movie is a mixed reaction. It's already made 164 mill At the box office. that means the numbers is going up. 🤔💯
@@_aakk agree 💯
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Barbie sounds like it had potential. Back in 2000 there was a movie called "life size" featuring Tyra Banks and Lindsay Lohan. It could've easily been the blueprint to this movie if the woke cult wasn't throwing their weight around. Could've actually been better than the Tyra Banks version of the Eve Doll. Would be a huge battle between the nostalgia of Barbie vs. Eve
It could be like Enchanted from Disney. A positive character bringing joy into a dark realistic world.
Yes! Me and my sister thought of Life Size too and how much better it was! That’s what we really wanted from this movie. Not a scolding from the writers. They just have to taint everything these days. They know their woke ideas won’t bring anyone to the theaters on their own so they take a great character or franchise and destroy it. It could have been so much better but no.
It is very important to realize that under capitalism/patriarchy, both men and women; every person, is oppressed, but patriarchy needs oppressors so it divides society artificially into two sorts, two genres, and give one the role of oppressor and the other genre, that of oppressed.
Wow!! Thank you so much for saving me and I assume countless others from watching this. Barbie was a huge part of my childhood and I was soooo pumped to see this! I had too many too count and remember getting my Barbie dream house for Christmas! Such a let down. Every show and movie coming out has to be woke in one way or the other. Even when it doesn’t do ANYTHING for the storyline. So over it honestly. Great video! I thought I was subscribed to you. It apparently not …. But I am now !
Seriously why wasn’t the message at the end of the movie be that ‘we can work together with kindness, empathy and equality’. That’s such a better message then ‘men are stupid and women are better at everything’. I just don’t get it. Yet another movie that completely missed a perfect message, at least it’s not going to be a flop this time 😶
Have you watched the movie tho? Because that was the real message. The president of the Barbie Land said that they need to change the previous system to make all the Kens important as well. A big part of this movie was actually focused on showing how men in the Barbie’s world were feeling lonely and useless, because they were supposed to be just a Barbies’s sidekicks.
@@doditto318 Then she said that men can have smaller positions instead of one on the court. Like, if they wanted fairness, then they would've started with it.
@@AbS-812i think that’s because the kens weren’t yet qualified enough to take those positions
you're asking for equity, not equality
That wasn’t the message
@@will506But if the Kens can just brainwash all the barbies in a span of a day, what makes them qualified for those roles/positions then? Or, to put it in another way, what makes them even qualified for those roles in the first place?
I felt throughout the whole movie there were a lot of things where I wasn't sure if they were meant to be satire or real world messages to the audience. Are they actually suggesting that matriarchy is a good thing and that all men are stupid perverted pricks or are these just jokes? Is it feminist or is it a satire of radical feminism? A child is only going to be more confused watching it. As a guy watching this movie with my girlfriend, I kept trying to convince myself that it wasn't offensive and that I should just enjoy it but frankly I think it is problematic
I was a bit confused as well. But ultimately i think it was trying to reflect the real world. The Barbie’s recognized ken’s struggles but did not offer true equality yet. Just like the real world. At least that’s my take on it.
Same
I honestly just felt let down from a movie goer perspective. I can't remember watching a film where I'm lectured to so overtly.. even Harry Potter managed to make some big points about not being racist or a fascist without using either of those words. The number of times the word "patriarchy" is said in Barbie just felt so clunky and weird.
This is exactly the kind of stuff that fuels a big backlash against women. You don't get people on side by yelling and lecturing at people 🙃 It made me feel alienated from feminism tbh
The moral of the story was that the "Kens" of the world often suffer for their identity as the flipside of feminism -- for centuries that Ken doll had no personality. While Barbie could be who she wanted to be thanks to feminism, Ken was forgotten about. When he came to the real world, he had to teach himself from an ironic perspective what society believed that a man was. By the end of the movie, it meant to teach the audience that neither Barbie nor Ken is exempt from finding their own identity despite their gender. It's more about throwing out gender norms, not putting women as more important.
boohoo
Idk, I didn't start hating on men when I watched it... I felt deep empathy and finally understood what my husband was going through for the majority of his life. I guess I just watched the movie without having any expectations about it and had a chance to really allow the movie to affect me the way it was supposed to affect me personally. The message that was the most prominent to me wasn't the society and what works the best for it but rather what I want to be and what is the best for ME. And surprisingly enough not in a selfish way at all. If anything this movie was one step for me to becoming even more selfless especially after hearing that speech about how it is 'so hard' being a woman... I was like 'I don't think this sounds fair.... I don't feel like a victim of my life...' and so on. I guess we all take from a movie what we want but I won't argue that in some ways there could have been a better messaging so everybody would be able to understand. This movie must not be for everybody... My husband on the other hand found it really funny and had a really good time, he could relate to a lot of stuff, and like I said, it made me want to be a better wife.
I’d be curious to know what you think a better plot or message would be for this movie. Would you prefer this be yet another love story where Barbie falls in love or needs saving from whatever situation she’s in? Maybe a story where Ken is actually the main character, he’s the stereotypical “macho man” and the movie is all about how great patriarchal societies are? Haven’t we seen enough of those character tropes? Not every man is a “manly man” and not every woman needs to be saved.
In my opinion, this wasn’t a movie promoting either a matriarchy or patriarchy as they both were shown to be oppressive to some degree. Towards the end, the main message ended up being that what’s best for everyone is somewhere in the middle. Barbie land will always be Barbie land and run mainly by Barbies, but now the Kens have more respect and status. Kinda equal to how women are in the real world.
I can agree about the men in the real world being overly sexual and lacking basic decency. But at the same time everything in the movie was taken to the extreme for entertainment… including the interactions between all the Barbies.
I also agree with your point about the daughter. She was certainly insufferable and honestly useless as a character. The movie wouldn’t have changed at all if she were not in it. She was mean to everyone for no reason, especially her mom, she wasn’t funny, she wasn’t insightful, she wasn’t supportive. She was literally just there… annoying everyone like a lingering fart.
No it was presenting the real world as a tyrannical patriarchy which it is not, and saying that that is what the real world is, and finding a middle ground is the solution in some woke rah rah way when logically, the middle ground is already pretty much there. Plus, preaching about how "hard it is to be a woman" without anything about "how hard it is to be a man"...and clearly treating all the men like morons...and being an incoherent jumbled mess...makes absolutely no sense...it is a bastion of mentally deficient, naive, woke idiocy...stop revealing your mental deficiency by trying to make up for it because most of the reviewers bask in the glow of a film this clearly idiotic being a realistic examination of toxic masculinity and the like...
Honestly I wud have preferred if regular barbie or even weird barbie were the protagonist and ken be the perfect one who ends up failing miserably and falls in love with her as they go on their adventure. Perfect barbie wasnt really a good character, she wud just whine about everything and do nothing. Also the human characters should have been more involved, something like a toy story kind of dynamic? Their plot line felt very rushed and all over the place. Scrap the barbie ceo altogether or make him an actual serious villain instead of a bad gag will ferrell character. The conflicting message kind of felt very hopeless for women how like the system is to put you down even though barbie cud be anything. If it was going to be this kind of political film it shudnt have been a family/kids 12+ movie. There is nothing wrong with a film being "typical" as long as it executes its ideas and themes well enough. Even this movie didnt do that by showing me patriarchy, it just kept repeating it in many monologues. All it showed was sexual harassment and somehow she ends up in jail which is just ridiculous and then ken sees patriarchy in a montage of men on horses or at the gym doing handshakes lmao. If it was going to be about the patriarchy it cud have been better if it focused on the mother and her mistreatment at her company or something
@@Pokyqu if anything, it inadvertently shows that the tyrannical patriarchy in these pseudo intellectual feminist “schools of thought(lessness)” doesn’t exist…as shown through its inability to convey the patriarchy and just repeat the word…which is exactly what these deficient “feminists” do nowadays and actually have a voice in media and academia…which is why society is so hopeless 😂😂
Maybe something like The Lego Movie 2 (which to this day is one of the best thematic takes on gender and its role and society and how men and women are at their best when they work in harmony) which had a somewhat similar concept as the Barbie movie but it was handled so much more tastefully and in a non-woke way. And unlike the Barbie movie, which was super confused and muddled mess full of contradictions and felt like it had no idea what it wanted to say, The Lego Movie 2 knew what it wanted to say and executed the conclusions to its theme and message perfectly and in a palatable way that I think everyone - not just people from one side of the political aisle - could relate to.
I kind of felt like the Barbie movie might’ve been trying to say what The Lego Movie 2 said, but the difference is that The Lego Movie 2 is a well-written masterpiece and Barbie was a thematically-confused dumpster fire of a story.
Well, at the end the Kens asked for 1 Supreme Court position in Barbieland & got dissed. Coz apparently that's a parallel to the real world. Guess Ginsberg is a fictional character, as is Lady Hale (the #1 judge in the UK till her fairly recent retirement). And numerous other prominent female judges globally.
I can’t believe Toy Story 3 had a more entertaining Barbie and Ken storyline than a whole 2 hour film about Barbie…
Yes, she ran off with GI Joe a real man, not Ken who is the epitome of the metrosexual simp.
You better cuz it is😅 The Ken characters are just 100% unuseful and irrelevant to the plot in the movie like😅 They could've been half the Kens and no difference
@@kyokugo6460 yeah I’m one of the poor souls who saw it thinking it was going to be a silly fun summer film and it was the literal antithesis of fun
For people with an average IQ of George Bush Jr, you are right
@@peterparker9954 oooh I love the whole ‘you didn’t understand it 🤓’ argument, do you think trying to insult my intelligence is going to change my mind on the film? And why do you care so much about what I think? I didn’t like Barbie, you did. That’s fine. Grow up.
Women are so oppressed that they can direct multi million dollar films like this with huge marketing and get away with it without being attacked for misandry
this one!
It’s a movie.
@@CreatorHouseVlogs a bad movie tho.
@@ManuMiAS to you. Btw it beat out that other one so that just sounds like a you problem
@@CreatorHouseVlogs Don’t use that as an excuse.
It so funny, because a matriarchy will never work, because men would physically take their rule away.
Your opinions are delightful to watch, even when i dont agree with them . Like i loved barbie and i think they wanted to say its okay to be who you are, . Extremes
Like matriarchy or patriarchy create problem. Balance and acceptance are important.
I congratulate you on your effective communication skills though.❤
A friend of mine always says he doesn't like horror movies because he "doesn't want to pay to be scared". I don't want to pay to be lectured... only difference is, this film is disguised as a kids movie which is particularly sinister. At least you know what you're getting when you go to a horror movie.
It’s not a kids movie. It’s PG-13
@@ohrylies 13 year olds aren't kids? Try again
@@Pian0Mon PG-13 just means it's not inappropriate for ages as young as 13, it DOES NOT MEAN IT"S FOR KIDS. 80s PG-13 would be R by todays standards, i'm just saying.
@@Pian0Mon but it's not a movie specifically for kids. it's for the adults who grew up with barbies. of course teenagers can see it, but most 13 year olds can understand the message of the movie and will either like or not. i would not personally bring a 10 or 7 year old to the movie. but still the target audience is NOT kids
Also not really trying to argue or anything, it’s just not a kids movie in my opinion
Hey no disrespect to you guys. I hear what you're saying but let's be honest. Who plays with Barbie dolls? Little girls.. so for the producers of this movie to bill it as this fun loving, sort of live action movie about a famous doll that millions of little girls play with and to inject social justice into it, is pretty deliberately misleading. I doubt that most casual moviegoers would look at this and say "I wonder if it's going to address misogyny and the patriarchy".. probably not. At surface, it's disguised as a kids movie and that's kind of jacked up.
I was waiting for this one since I watched the movie yesterday. My goodness, I feel cheated. The marketing was beyond deceiving.
I was kinda bummed out too. I just wanted a happy soft fluffy girly movie and felt got at the end of iy
The lawyer Barnes on Viva Frei's Rumble channel thinks it rises to the level of fraud and a class action suit could go forward.
I thought it would be like the LEGO movie but with Barbie. ;-;
I know! People were celebrating how deceptive it was. It made me sad.
Go watch the Barbie: Life in a Dreamhouse animated series instead. I have family members who watch that and I have actually sat down and watched that animated show and most of the episodes are actually GOOD. That animated series (which has MILLIONS of views for many of it's episodes on UA-cam) is what the live action movie should have been (instead of the PROPAGANDA CRAP that is this HORRIBLE live action Barbie film).
Thank you for a great review. I never listen to people who are reviewers professionally since they are usually out of touch with what the people want and enjoy. I love your analysis and your assessment. More, I trust it.
Best review I have seen. All your points are so well taken and well said under a tree. The casting and set design were perfect and then... Another issue I had with the film was it was just kinda boring which surprised me. When you have to describe the intentions of a movie for 20 minutes; you missed your mark. Good work.
Yesterday I didn't go to the Barbie movie, I went to Sound of Freedom.
I going to see that movie next week. I can't get anyone to go with me, so I will be seeing it alone. I hear it's such a great movie.
Oppenheimer is a great alternative
I was hoping for a fun fluffy comedy that took you to an adventure tied up with a romance with Ken...nope.
I was expecting a fluffy comedy who would be like a fun just party for a couple hours nope
And that's exactly what the marketing led you to believe.
Ken took doofenshmirtz’s spot for number one villain I feel bad for
Can't they just make a simple movie on women empowerment without downgrading men
Let’s be 100% honest
_Barbie_ wouldn’t have made half of the money it did if it was Amy Schumer (who was originally slated to play the titular role) and not Margot Robbie.
No you are wrong - small amount of people knows what is a margot robbie precisely, people went because 1. Big marketing 300-400 mln dollars 2. Popular Barbie doll.
@@vixozas, @@vixozas. Sex sells. There is no doubt that Robbie is an absolute blonde bombshell, and Hollywood knows that the American populace loves that. Would Marilyn Monroe be just as much of a Hollywood sex icon if she was brunette?Margot Robbie is just as much a household name as The Rock or Kate Upton.
Yes, the Barbie brand is a big draw. But the casting director was no dumbass and was prudent with who they chose to cast.
@@vixozas You know, there can be three reasons rather than two. Those aren't exclusive to each other. A pretty white woman will be more appealing to audiences than, say, Leslie Jones.
@@nonmagicmike723 those two reasons i mentioned are more important. And yes, it can be another beautiful woman and people will fall in love with her.
It had to be Margot to contrast with Gerwig’s radical vision! Amy Schumer would have been too much and she needed to contrast her persona if she was ever to play a Barbie!
Single dad of 3 amazing young daughters and a couple of older ones here .... we saw the movie. The blatant hatred of men, male-female romance, and motherhood/caregiving was abhorrent. This review is spot on.
I want my daughters to know that they can be *anything* they choose.... INCLUDING a wife and mother.
If motherhood is considered a good thing, how is the WEF supposed to bring western population down? 😅
I agree with your statement of course.
Hatred of men? What the f did you watch?
Lol they'll grow to resent you and not because of barbie movie.
@@enjajajajajaStop the cap femceI
@@simpdefendmlady6579 wtf is a femcel u rword, go outside male
I reluctantly went and saw it with my daughter, and I was surprised - I liked it. There is a backhand on extreme feminism and an affirmation for ordinary women, "Why can't you make ordinary Barbies". Cheers, old conservative bloke.
Lmao love your use of the scene from Wayne’s World when talking about the Chevy product placement! I’m surprised you’ve seen that movie!!
the most unrealistic part is that barbie land was drama free. you best believe my barbie’s knew how to throw a punch
Girls can start to become bitchy with each other from about 10 years old, and have little cliques. It makes no sense at all that in Barbieland they're all happy and smiling all the time like Stepford Wives.
@@catwoman7462 It was supposed to be creepy and weird like that. But then it feels inconsistent to give drama to the Kens and not to the Barbies, so it made the flaws of the movie's ideology more apparent.
@@jfoot2732 Waiting to go in to the film we watched as loads of teenage girls were dressed in pink. As the film name came up on screen there were screams from some in the audience. It was weird. I wonder if the film was what they thought it was going to be.
ITS A MOVIE ! A FICTIONAL MOVIE
@@catwoman7462that’s how you talk about children? Interesting
At this point, I've come to despise the term "Patriarchy".
Because it's being too overused to mean something?
same here. Espically diversity,inclusion,bigots,phobics,etc.
Same here, it always sounds so pathetic, ignorant, and whiny.
Misogonistic too, would be a breath of fresh air if it was used correctly most of the time and if it was used as much times as misandrist, not enough men stand up for themselves these days.
Agreed
I really wanna give this movie a chance.
But I really don't want another instance of the reminder that "you should feel bad because you are man therefore you have it easy" and how I am such a piece of shit because my existence oppresses women.
100% noticed the chevy poduct placement too. It's like Chevy execs sitting around a table saying whats the most popular toy, lets pay to make the movie and have 3 minute trailer in the middle.
People misunderstand so much of this movie. This movie criticizes Barbieland and its perfect feminist world since the first minutes with its satirical humor. It actually makes fun of this perfect feminist utopia. It transform the pitiful and unimportant side character Ken- who represents the replaceable husband, into a toxic, masculine villain who many fans can side with or at least understand his anger and anxiety. In the end, Barbie acknowledges him, give him the necessary respect and tells him not to seek female validation, but find his own purpose in life. That is the most powerful message for us men to be independent from women. In this way we become more masculine than an average male simp can ever hope for.
Right! And Barbie even leaves the matriarchal Barbieland to go live in the real world because it shows that the extreme of either is highly flawed. Personally i thought this movie criticised extreme wokeism in a satirical way and in a way, even promoted traditional values of motherhood with allll of the mother imagery and lines. I really dont understand why people are misunderstanding it so much…
@@aleena001 I think it's because the produce (ie. Margot Robbie) and a few others involved in the movie insisted it was a feminist movie, so no one actually knows if the satire was intentional. I think the word "feminism" is basically poison at this point, we are accustomed to feminists being absolutely hysterical and irrational - the point is no one knows if the messages we, the audience are getting, are actually the messages the creators intended
100%
100% spot on
Thank you!! I’ve been trying to comment that. Like it literally said- patriarchy was fake!
If I had a nickel for every time the word patriarchy was said in the Barbie movie I definitely would have earned back my ticket price and maybe free popcorn
I would have less than 5 dollars :/
😂😂😂😂😂😂
If it was a shot I would have had to go to the hospital to get my stomach pumped lol
We should demand our money back. Period.
Your mean you were not able to retire. Pfff.
Those baby dolls should’ve at least looked for a way to coexist alongside Barbie, because EVERYONE deserves to practice their parenting skills.
In a way they did. At the end of the film, barbie becomes a real woman, gets her own vagina. She could be a mother now theoretically. I think the message of the movie was, mattel is doing what it can to make barbie more realistic and to live up to all of the expectations put on a little plastic doll, but its a lot of weight to put on one plastic doll by herself. It is up to the mothers of today to shape the women of tomorrow. Or at least that's how I interpreted it.
The two things I didn't like was the ditsy nature of the women and the way the women in Barbie world fought to reestablish the matriarchy instead of saying that perhaps there should be equality. It really made them no better than the patriarchal men they were fighting against.
On the subject of them being ditsy, in the beginning they were, and the way they were so easily "brainwashed" was pretty insulting to women.
In my cinema, people weren't very cheery at all they all stayed quite which made it quite boring but peaceful. As a girl in the age of 14, Im okay with the movie being about feminism but im sad that the marketing made it seem like a fun movie with fashion then barbie discovering the real world and goes on an adventure. I thought it would be exciting but it's before she comes to the real world and my brain died for the "patriachy" word in it. I really didn't enjoy as I should've and i hated how poorly kens were treated it's like barbie doesn't need love and everything and she goes to be human and a sad beige girl and a very dark joke at the end. Props to the marketing team and fashion and architects.
It was really good and modern.
Sure, buddy.
@@sophieruby5893 i dont know if you actually agree or being sarcastic but it's just from my perspective
@@avalanche_dreams
I don't believe you.
@@sophieruby5893 believe me in what? That i actually found this movie boring and got dissatisfied
EXACTLY what I felt throughout the movie. The Barbieland was organized and beautiful but the Kendom was just chaotic and a mess Towards the end, the Kens and the Mattel workers give up saying it's very hard to lead, and eventually settle for less. The movie was just downplaying men and preaching "women run the world" or they run it better. It would've been wayyy better if they actually portrayed equality at the end.
This I agree with! I understand the point of the movie was to show a world where women weren’t oppressed aka Barbieland. However true equality is for both men and women.
At the end of the day women who enjoy divisive films like Barbie eventually have to go back home to their right hand
The Kendom was goated, I started clapping in the theatre, I could feel Ken (Ryan Gosling) coming inside me
Out of the millions of movies where they do the opposite to women and it happens irl, who actually cares? I loved the movie, my little sister loved the movie. Maybe if you weren't so focused on nitpicking for politics you would have too. Women can have their movies without being criticized
@@herekitty791😂
I’ve heard of people taking their young children to this movie. This is a bad idea. Not a single thing in this movie is made for kids.
Yeah and the movie is PG-13 just because its about a kids doll doesn't mean its for kids
People need to stop throwing around “woke” to describe anything with some opinion and diversity
Walking out of the theater everyone was just looking at each other like what just happened. I noticed a six year old boy and realized he had just been indoctrinated to hate himself and his father for the past 2 hours. Sad
Lol 🥱 stop making stuff up. In a world full of Andrew tates a Barbie movie should not be your concern. God forbid women and little girls have a movie that isn’t male coded and approved.
You didn't see it, did you?
@@sophieruby5893girl I saw it, and I hated it. Ppl are allowed to dislike a film. The movie was clearly divisive and preachy. It harped on about the oppression of “da patriarchy 😐”
We in THE WEST don’t experience sexism overwhelmingly.
Like that silly speech said they want us to be thin but also healthy but still skinny.
There was literally a plus size barbie in the film😐
It’s just preachy watered down vile 4th wave feminism. Gross🤢
@@cinabonbon
The patriarchy must be protected.
@@sophieruby5893not really but neither the mother whatever what you call it
If you want a movie that makes men and women lose total respect for each other, this sounds like that movie!!!
They already did.
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@@theretard3127 Furreal
honestly though this movie make me hate my own gender. bloody stupid women
Absolutely. Well said
Wish I had seen this before me and my 7 year old went. Left when the speeches started and she even said she didn't like it. I made sure she understood that the world wasn't Luke that. I am retired from the military with a pretty good rank so I made sure she knew the right stuff.
good for u and ur daughter
Someone online pointed out to me that the insufferable daughter and her friends are meant to be the four Bratz dolls.
Ken was the ONLY character I love and was rooting for in the entire film. I left very sad because he didn’t get the ending he deserved.
What was the ending he deserved? Didn’t he finally realize he’s great as an individual. Isn’t that the most powerful thing? To not have to live for someone validate your existence? To finally realize you are great as an individual person and find love for who you are?
He was misogynistic…the entire film…that was the point of his character and you love him??
No happy ending for Ken 🍆
@@airveins The core of Ken isn’t misogynistic. He had a identity crisis because he didn’t know who he was without Barbie. He himself said he actually lost interest in the patriarchy when he realised it wasn’t about horses lol. He eventually realised he could be his own person without all these stereotypical attributes or tying himself to Barbie.
@@airveins he was not misogynistic the entire film. He became obsessed with “the patriarchy” for a short amount of time (literally a few days of his entire life) because in “the real world” people treated him like an equal human being. He was literally shocked and so touched that a woman asked him what time it was…he mentioned it like 3 times! Do you realize how abused and mistreated you must be in order to feel SPECIAL because a random stranger asked you for the time? Not only that, but it was obvious that the only reason he flipped the Barbie world upside down was solely in the hopes that it would finally earn him the love and adoration that he had always wanted from Barbie. His actions were all coming from a misguided place of deep neglect and trauma. He was a good person. An insecure but good person. This is reinforced once again when he cries at the end of the film and tells Barbie that he was created for her, feels lost without her, and lives for the warmth of her gaze. He tells her that he has always dreamed they would share a home and a life together. That is so romantic and sweet and it was incredibly sad and heartbreaking to watch Barbie tell him that he should just go away forever and find himself? Oh, and he still can’t have a house or a job because he’s not allowed to in Barbie world. I’ve been “finding myself” WITH my husband and my family for the past 12 years. One does not negate the other.
The film completely botched the ending.
I'm a man. I did not feel attacked very much.
If anything, Ken reminded me a lot about myself when i was younger and thought i had no value. When i lived to please the women in my life because that's the only way i thought i could get validation. And when i wouldn't get validation, I'd often act out and ruin relationships with these women. Then at some point i realized that i had value apart from the women in my life. It was ok to just be me and figure out my own place in the world apart from a woman.
I also related a lot to Barbie and The Mom's character. Didn't really see their issues as feminist issues. I saw them as human issues. All humans have impossible expectations thrusted upon them by the world around them and it often breaks us down. Coz we're just human. It was never lost on me that most things in the movie were exaggerated to comical effect and to make a point. I didn't look at the screen and clutch my pearls. But that's just me.
Obviously different people have different interpretations of art. This was just mine.
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Absolutely love your comment, honest and caring
Yes, that's exactly what I felt. That it"s also about growing up and becoming an adult. Girls have to stop playing with dolls andhave to grow up to be a woman. Which is scary, having to adapt to so many rules, but also beautiful. What better message than Barbie says I WANT ALL THAT. The beauty and the pain. My 12 yo daughter sobbed a little at thaz part. She totally got the message, it was truly moving.
@@richardkovacs2006 Glad to hear someone else related to that. I had a few friends and two of my sisters. Different ages. Both of them cried when Barbie was talking to her creator😅
I got more of the feeling that this movie was satirical and pointed out the flaws of full patriarchy and matriarchy. Ken misunderstood the “real world” that actually neither and both men and women have struggles. Still, trying to over dissect it is like trying to explain a joke. It’s meant for entertainment and move on.
So Barbie hates capitalism yet let's remember, it's only BECAUSE of Capitalism that a movie like this could ever be made.
That's the joke
But there was more to the ending of this movie. It didn’t end with the barbies restoring the matriarchy. It ended with both barbies and kens realizing they couldn’t go back to how things were in barbieland. And that Kens deserved more representation in their government. Which is what women do in the real world.
Also, in the ending there was a ken that said: “ i just want my barbie back” and then barbie hugs him and you can tell they just want to be together romantically.
In my opinion the movie did a good job at making the point that neither a matriarchy nor a patriarchy are good, and both men and women can co-exist and appreciate each other.
Doesn’t he say “i just want my friend, Barbie back” ?
Exactly this! Too many people have utterly missed the point.
Yes! Loved that too
Well said.
I thought it was 50-50. It was woke but not to the point where I wanted to leave. It also brought up men’s issues as well. I really enjoyed it.
Everyone did a Great job!!! 💖
I went to go watch the Barbie movie with my cousin and I told her that I felt bad for Ken and that they never answered the question of where do the Kens live. The entire movie the treatment of the Kens made me uncomfortable and made the Barbies feel like horrible hypocrites. My cousin hit me with the "Well that's because you are not a feminist." My cousin is very left leaning, like so left leaning she was happy when the Queen died, I lost a bit of my respect for her that day. She also spent movies of the movie taking pictures of Michael Cera's character.
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My sister’s the same, I feel ya
Should've slapped her
That’s not real feminism, I hate people like that, they are giving a bad name to feminism which just wants everyone to be treated equally.
you don't have to be left leaning to be happy that a woman whose family still lives with the public's hard earned money without doing much work has died. You can be sad yourself but if you lose respect for someone who didn't, you don't know what respect truly means.
this is probally the only time ive ever disagreed with her
It looks like someone didn’t understand the message of the movie.
As a Barbie collector is an 9/10. But with my political lense it's a 3. I agree with every point you made.
Wow...I Love handing my husband a cold beer...he works out in the elements in 110 degree heat 5-6 days a week. I'll gladly hydrate, feed, massage, serve him. If that's problematic, I'll be that.
Nobody said it was. You created fake enemies
That's like me coming home from work all tired and everything, and my wife making sure I was ok because I was exhausted. Been married to her for 33 years and I love her just as much as I did when we first got married.
I personally loved the movie. There was a lot of hidden meaning if you look at it surface level I can understand why people would hate it. It definitely preferences on both sides but this movie is called Barbie so it’s going to be about the primarily about female fantasy perspective. The whole thing is intended for you to interpret the meaning of Barbie on your own. They just pave a view to guide you towards the general vision.
Thank you Amala - 100% agree with your review, and in my packed theater opening weekend - NO ONE LAUGHED. I was really disappointed after seeing the trailers, the marketing team did a great job at hiding what this movie really was about! Anyway, I enjoyed your review and style so much I've subscribed and look forward to more great content!
I recommend Micara Tewers view on this movie, it covers even more aspects that didn't get covered here.
The most glaring example of the 'patriarchy' is men dominating in women's sports.
This movie isn’t about Transwomen so leave them alone! But there is also transmale taking boys sports but I have no clue why are you worrying about female so much🤭
@justaweirdo3754 it isn't about transwomen but they made sure to shoehorn one in there, so, fair game.
What 💀
@@Howaboutyes11 man I don’t know- 💀
@@Nerdy_Jarhead so why they mean by Men dominant in in women sports?
You know the part when Barbie is throwing a tantrum because the Ken’s took over and Ken says, “now you know how it feels” but she just continues to feel bad for herself? Yeah that part
Similar to reality? Maybe, just maybe
that's exactly why they fucking made men not oppressed in the Barbie World towards the end because Barbie felt bad for making the Kens oppressed. Like bro did you watch the whole movie??
@@wheresthelambsauce8273 But the Barbies were still the leaders. It wasn;t 100% equal
@@AndresFe20 NO!!!!!!!!
@@wheresthelambsauce8273 They didn't make men not oppressed. They point-blank refused them a seat on the Supreme Count. Like bro did you watch the whole movie??
You are SPOT ON with your review! I agree with everything you said. Thank you for sharing your wise perception.
The movie is more about finding out who you are and all that. The men vs women thing is mostly a joke. Idk how people can't tell
LIKE!! couldn't express my feelings after watching Barbie - you speak from my soul! thank you!
I went for Barbie and stayed for Ken because honestly he was the only good part
Seriously? He was annoying as fuck. Typical simp dude that things that the object of his affection SHOULD return his love just... because!
Ken was done very well.
Disagree.
barbie and ken are both flawed and no true equality was achieved however, in barbieland the worst thing was men not being given attention but in the kendo the barbies were blind and served men 24/7 so idk how this decisions as even made 💀 both were faulty and that's fine
the whole movie is brain washing feminist crap
My gf saw it with her mom. Said people were visibly upset in the theatre lol.
Bet a lot of those were parents with small kids who were expecting a nice famiy friendly show...
@@colleen4ever she said it was more people like her actually who were expecting a fun Barbie movie. I was excited too I have a sister and she had barbies so I thought the movie could be fun. They didn’t replace Barbie and Ken with a trans black Muslim amputee dwarf so I thought there was a possibility the movie wouldn’t be liberal garbage but unfortunately not. Should’ve expected it to be honest lol.
@@weignerleigner3037 I don't see why everyone hasn't realized that Hollywood is clearly trying to brainwash American children into believing certain things and acting specific ways (that are usually negative and harmful to having a good and happy life).
@@weignerleigner3037I went with my girlfriend and I wasn't expecting it to be this intense. I expected there to be the "bumbling male idiot", but literally every man was a bumbling idiot. None of them had any redeeming qualities at all. It was actively misandrist and I spent 90% of it having to pretend I wasn't uncomfortable.
@@FallofasparrowPG-13 is not the problem, its the message, you can play dumb to not know what it trying to tell you
Ultimately I think Barbie/Mattel was just trying to win over the liberals and feminists, they know the brand has been struggling and in our modern day culture many women see barbie as outdated and not good for young girls. I think if they had made a more fun lighthearted shallow movie it wouldn’t have helped Barbie’s image and perhaps people would’ve boycotted who knows.
So ultimately they were successful in adding some forced massaging making it seem like Barbie is the ultimate feminist so moms can side with Barbie and buy it for their kids again.
It’s actually quite impressive what they did and is a capitalism/marketing masterpiece.
Thank you, Amala, for this thorough review. Now i know I'm not the only one who did not like this movie. Still, the number of us who didn't like it is in the single digits😂
Micara Tewers video put very well into words what I didn't like about the movie. So much missed opportunities there.