flower topia

The amount of one star reviews is astounding, and ironic considering most if not all are from men. This movie was good, the plot was weak though, but the music, fashion, real world vs barbie world, nostalgia was spot on and perfect, and that's why I gave it 4/5. I grew up without the internet, so I grew up not seeing a power difference in any gender. It wasn't until I was exposed to it in schools with boys being picked to lift tables (at a young age where women were even biologically stronger then men), being forced to like the colour pink as blue was for boys, boys telling me I couldn't do something because I was a girl. So the movie was really saddening for me because it reminded me of my once innocence and how the exposure to the real world and truth was so disheartening. And that's the problem, men won't get it, they never will, they get a glimpse of it through this movie and they rate it bad or get angry because they aren't used to that kind of treatment. But the movie also showed me that there will never be equality, because there will be women who want more then men and men who want more than women, because thats the thing, we're all bias and stereotypical in some way, we will never understand the opposite genders problems, so realistically there will probably never be a world where women and men have the same amount of power and authority. The whole idea of matriarchy was the core principle of this movie, but I thought as a woman that was great, ironically. Not because women should solely have power over men, but because it made the men (hopefully) notice how a woman must feel with so many powerful figures being displayed as a man. I guess females in popular careers has become more accepted than years ago, but it shouldn't be like that, women should be able to be the faces of big law firms or football or presidents. And considering half the population is female. Also it's like we get criticised more as women, and mothers (which seems crazy), being a mother is a career in itself which should be more preached and displayed, instead theres people disregarding being a mother as a job and that she's not a real woman or empowered if she spends her lifetime being a mother. Which is complete insanity. I also loved the maternal aspect of this movie, the way it focused on older women and mothers rather than a teenage girl or a child, because mothers are incredible individuals who sadly don't get much in movie representation.