bird

It’s beautiful. Everything looks really nice, the set, the outfits, and the attention to detail, from drinking fake juice, to floating down the roof. I came to this movie expecting another family friendly movie, like inside out or something. But it delivered something very different. The feminist jokes I could handle at first, but they quickly became the focus of the movie. It really was disappointing. It was hard for me to enjoy this movie, I couldn’t agree with anything they said. Why is it that this movie doesn’t push for equality? Why is it that Ken finally feeling accepted is portrayed as a bad thing? Why is it that the Kens being pushed around to see each other as competition is shown as a guy thing when girls are (in my experience) far more competitive with each other than guys are? I watched this movie with my friend, my mum and my little sister. When asked whether we liked the movie, my friend said she liked it, but I feel she only said that because it was my mum who brought us to the movie and she felt obligated to. I said it was alright but a day later, I have to say I really didn’t like it and would rather have not watched it, or watch it on my own a few months later through a pirating site to see what the controversy was about. My sister said she liked it but I feel she didn’t want to talk about it. My mum was very straightforward and said it was like brainwashing propaganda. We aren’t a politically right leaning family and we live in a very left leaning area. I just don’t get why they didn’t show any of this kind of political stuff in the advertising. It was shown as a another family friendly movie. By advertising it in this way, it really comes off as brainwashing. I hate to call the feminist movement political because I like to see human rights and politics as separate, but this movie felt really political to me. Also, throughout the movie, I kept wondering. What do the actors feel, singing the song about men being bad, while they are men? How does that woman feel, complaining about women having to do so much to please men? I know in that particular scene, she’s just complaining and she probably does know that she’s not completely right, but they way they portray her speech as a sort of wake up call for the Barbies makes it feel like they think she’s right about everything she said in that speech. People wearing Barbie outfits being excited to see the Barbie movie. I see them come out looking confused and somewhat regretful. Overall, though it’s a really beautiful movie and I feel like the people who designed it had a lot of passion. I would like it a lot more if it was advertised as what it is and not advertised as a family friendly movie. I was certain I would like it because I was their target audience. A left leaning teenage girl that played with Barbies as a kid. But couldn’t enjoy it, I felt really awkward the whole time.