Feeling Cynical About Barbie

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  @BroeyDeschanel · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

  but in all seriousness guys, I am the biggest fan of the BCU! If you don&apos;t follow Preminger fan cam accounts on TikTok are you really a Barbie fan...<br><br>A couple things that should be clarified:<br><br>1. I have no aspirations to join SAG, I was not paid by the struck companies to make this video, and I am not an influencer. This is film criticism. And I figured instead of supporting the strike symbolically, I wanted to use my platform to raise awareness/money for it. This is a discussion that many people in my field have been having, and we all came to different conclusions for how we should move forward based on the kinds of video we make, our particular genres of Youtube, and our plans for the future. This was my decision, and no, it does not qualify as crossing a picket line as some of you have suggested I have done. It was a decision made after extensive consultation. <br><br>2. I love my community post responders! But the community page is not a sacred space - I can engage with it how I would like to, as it&apos;s my channel :)

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• BJ

  @bjpmotion · 3 years ago

  &quot;Barbie is wearing the clothes of artful cinema, putting on an edge-lord voice and hitting all the necessary talking points so we have nothing left about it to criticize, and everything left to buy.&quot; &nbsp; &nbsp;Wow.

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• KA

  @kayleighgrant4007 · 3 years ago

  Barbie is inside us all...in the form of microplastics.

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• MK

  @mkgz207 · 3 years ago

  God do I wish Barbie was an existential psychological thriller

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• CO

  @cookiemocher388 · 2 years ago

  The movie also doesn&apos;t understand many of Barbie&apos;s controversial dolls, the reason pregnant barbie was discontinued WASN&apos;T cause a pregnant doll was seen as weird, but from people complaining that the doll wasn&apos;t wearing a wedding ring and &quot;promoting&quot; teen pregnancy, &nbsp;even though it wasn&apos;t, there are plenty of pregnant dolls out there, many doll collectors still make material to make their barbies look pregnant, nobody actually cares if a barbie doll is pregnant, also the camera barbie was controversial due to the FBI thinking it can be used to stalk children, but the film just makes a joke about how weird it is that barbie has a camera in her back, it also jokes about Ruth&apos;s tax fraud, but never mentions the plagiarism allegations with the original barbie&apos;s design, it&apos;s acting like it gets the criticisms, but it doesn&apos;t, even with seemingly easy targets

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• DN

  @dnicole1391 · 3 years ago

  Funny thing is, I didn’t even feel like Barbie was for The Girl’s. Ryan Gosling was the star of the show and arguably carried the movie on his back. The biggest takeaways from the movie were “I am kenough” and “big Ken energy”

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• GY

  @gyozagobbler420 · 3 years ago

  i felt like the mother/daughter plot got interrupted when they had to get all of the barbies out from under the spell, it just felt like so many plots were going on that they all fell flat for me. it&apos;s also crazy about the pink pigment shortage!

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• LI

  @liviascristine · 3 years ago (edited)

  I remember watching the movie and once it was over I turned to my boyfriend and said &quot;It&apos;s not what I expected. It was fun, I had fun, but something&apos;s missing&quot; and I&apos;m glad more people noticed the story was lacking and underdeveloped. Sometimes it felt as if I was watching one of the Lego movies. I was expecting something more like the quieter moments of the movie.

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• SA

  @savana196 · 3 years ago

  I feel like a lot of this &quot;you cannot possibly criticize the barbie movie&quot; is also coming from how little nuance people allow into arguments like this, that oftentimes, they believe that if you criticize something, that means it&apos;s horrible and should be tossed aside. I enjoyed the Barbie movie immensely, and I think criticizing it, seeing where it fell short and where it hit the mark, what cultural and economical factors lead to it, just makes me enjoy it more! It&apos;s so much more interesting that way!

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• ZD

  @zdogswaggy2104 · 3 years ago

  thank u so much for bringing up the whole ferrara monologue feeling like it was made to create snaps from the audience, it felt super superficial and i completely agree that it felt like i was being sold feminism, rather than &quot;empowered&quot;. my friends all left the theatre in like awe of how deep and hard hitting it was to them and obviously i dont want to detract from that sort of response, but, i couldn&apos;t help but feel entirely cynical about so much of the themes.

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  @sparklywater2186 · 3 years ago

  I also didn&apos;t like how they treated Allan. He was ignored by EVERYONE. Both the Barbies and the Kens. Yeah he was there but he was never addressed. People praise the movie about his character and how he&apos;s autistic coded or trans coded or whatever. But no one embraced his being different yo everyone else. He was just there

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  @RiderOfKarma · 3 years ago

  The ‘Let People Enjoy Things’ thought terminating cliché irks me so much. <br><br>How does other people having a critical conversation have anything to do with your enjoyment of it?

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