Nazareth Lezama

Don’t waste your time (This has spoilers) This is one of those movies that you can barely finish, and if you even do it is to avoid the feeling of leaving something halfway. Or well, that was my case. First, the story is BAD with all capital letters. Nothing special, nothing catching, nothing funny. The cast is also regrettable, and you can see the performances are just not good. They try to make it funny, they try to make it enjoyable, but they fail. Second place, the story is full of resemblances to another romcom, that is actually good, with a decent cast and a story that makes sense and has time to develop: Leap Year. We have Ireland and its Cliff of Moher, a ginger girl who proposed to a man who is not really her soulmate, a local handsome guy who has not been lucky when it comes to love and who shows her around the places, and of course, they get stuck into a weather situation that makes them spend time together and feel sparks about each other, but then she has to go back to her reality. C’mon, it’s full of cliches, but at least those cliches were well executed in Leap Year. Last but not least, the story happens so quickly that you don’t have time to believe it is possible. We are talking that she only spent one night with the guy, then yes, they danced and stuff, but it’s absolutely not enough to then fake those scenes full of fake “tension in the air”. In Resume, a poor movie, with poor casting and an even poorer story, and this is said by a girl who loves romcoms and has pretty low standards for them lol. Watch at your own risk.

After watching Barbie, I have been left with a taste in my mouth that is completely sour and not at all sweet. Although I had read that the film had a clear feminist intention, I expected a more intelligent dialogue at the time of raising it, worthy of all the commotion -and budget- that it has had. Instead, I came face to face with a script that seems to have been taken from anonymous internet troll conversations, where terms such as patriarchy, oppression, macho culture, and any other that comes to mind are repeated over and over again. Not satisfied with this, they are placed without much context or a good job in the plot, but inserted with a shoehorn. Although to be fair, it is not difficult to do this when the starting point is a weak, confusing, and lacking quality story, from beginning to end. It begins with a little girl breaking her baby dolls, fed up with the role of caretaker that had been imposed on her up until now by the oppressive, macho, and heteropatriarchal society in which she lived until Barbie arrived to teach her that she can "be whatever she wants to be". But at the end of the film, of course, there are three seconds of dialogue in which one of the main characters says that it's okay to "just want to be a mother", as if taking care of the family was a secondary and minor role, which, however, it's okay to want to aspire. On the other hand, Barbie makes a permanent caricaturisation of men, represented first by Ken, whom they show as completely useless, lacking in personality and incapable of making decisions for himself, and then by the executives of Mattel, brainless CEOs who make the decisions of a large company without caring, even for a moment, the feminine vision. Barbie forgets what the feminist movement also forgets: that the current dynamics between men and women are the result of thousands of years of interaction between social, political, cultural, religious, and, to the regret of many, biological and physiological factors, and not of a handful of men sitting at congresses or company meeting tables. Today, there is not a single law in the Western world that favors men over women, quite the contrary. Increasingly, feminist laws grant privileges for the mere fact of being women, as a kind of revenge for so many years of patriarchy. And Barbie seems to ignore it. In the end, the message that Greta sends is, to say the least, dangerous: -Men and women can NOT work together. -Men in power are stupid and incompetent. -Only women in power guarantee a just world for all. In summary, I feel that a golden opportunity has been lost to put forward a sensate feminist idea that advocates equality in front of the law (the only possible one), and from that, a ton of freedom, for both men and women, that Let them pursue their own life projects, while interacting with each other, combining the best of themselves. On the contrary, it has been a revenge film, a "take it off to put me on", which, far from leaving a positive message, reinforces harmful ideas that, unfortunately, have more and more room for girls, adolescents, and women, who end up seeing in man an enemy to be destroyed, and not the ally and companion that he has been since the beginning of time.

Preciosísima. Deja un mensaje hermoso y te hace sentir que nada en realidad es tan determinante en la vida y son todo un montón de pequeños pasitos.

No pude terminar de verla porque no hay por dónde cogerla. Mala con todas las letras. Nada fluye, las escenas son forzadas, la trama no existe y siempre esperas que aparezca un mínimo de sentido o un hilo conductor que nunca llega. No conozco los libros ni la historia original, pero esto como película se ha quedado pendiendo de un hilo.