It really does - it’s total propaganda to this effect.īut at the same time it’s giggly and brisk and breezy and funny and, I have to admit, a very well assembled satire of sorts. In a very good-natured and heavily ironic and often comedic way Greta Gerwig‘s movie absolutely DESPISES men. In a very good-natured and heavily ironic and often comedic way (except for the final 25 to 30 minutes, when it turns into one soul-baring speech after another about the burdens of being a woman and the necessity of men accepting their fundamental immaturity and subservient role, and the task of crafting and molding your own identity)…what was I saying? If you want to start your little girl (or your little boy) on a path to despising foolish and idiotic straight men, this is the film to take them to - trust me. This movie definitely tries to nudge the little girls and boys that will see it into the man-hating, male-pitying side of the discussion. Red-staters will have problems with the basic Barbie attitude. Because it’s zippy and fizzy and a fair amount of fun.”īarbie really is fun and juiced for the most part…it’s sharp and clever and peppy as fuck and production designed to a fare-thee-well. …as I’m waiting for the big-ass, 15/70 IMAX screening of Oppenheimer to begin at 7 pm…this is the best I can do on the fly… please forgive the repetitions.īarbie is cheerful, ironic, smart…it’s colorful, pop-pop-pop feminist and male-despising propaganda in a fleet and funny way…it’s clever and snappy enough to make you say to yourself “okay, fine…men are the foolish morons in this thing and there will be no oxygen for steady, fair-minded viewpoints…just give into it, man…whatever.
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