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Its summer-movie blockbuster season, which in 2023 means one thing:Barbenheimeris nigh.
If this is all wrong, then, uh, it was all just a dream all along.
Ken was invented after Barbie, to burnish Barbies position in our eyes and in the world.
That kind of creation myth is the opposite of the creation myth in Genesis.
When someone tells you who they really are, and what theyrereallygoing to do for theirBarbiefilm adaptation, listen.
Where fig leaves would otherwise go, theyre as smooth as a Thread posters brain.
Think of Adams stewardship over the animals.
Now think of how many Barbies are veterinarians and horse girls.
When the dolls are in Barbie Land, theyre being played with and possibly spoken to (and through?
), but they dont have agency.
In fact, it reclaims womanly wiles and deviance and folds them right back into our heroine.
What is the apple in this scenario?
What song plays as she approaches Kate McKinnons house and drives into the arid desert past Barbie Land borders?
What do Birkenstocks and the Indigo Girls signify?
(I did not get a good education at Temple Sinai, Im sorry.)
Gerwig is probably reclaiming the Lilith figure here, as so many feminists have done before her.
Like Lilith.And the devil laughs.
And also Ken is there!
Ferrera is making a comeback and we love to see it!
At the premiere, however, Ferrera wore pink and Robbie wore black.
Their arcs are clearly intertwined!)
Bella Arnold
The Creation of the Atomic Bomb
Its no great mystery what Greta GerwigsBarbieis about.
Featuring an all-star cast,Barbiewill examine the horrors of creation and make audiences confront their own existential mortality.
Oh, wait, Ive been watching the wrong trailer.
Okay, yeah, actually this makes more sense.
I was wondering where Margot Robbie was.
And thats not Ryan Gosling, its some Irish guy.
I guessBarbieis about dolls?
James Grebey
