"Barbenheimer" has become such a catchphrase and pop culture phenomenon that you simply cannot escape bumping into it throughout this summer blockbuster season.
"Barbenheimer" has become such a catchphrase and pop culture phenomenon that you simply cannot escape bumping into it throughout this summer blockbuster season.
Even more amazing is if a film can be enjoyed both ways – as a capitalist piece of mainstream entertainment and a subversive allegory.
But even from the start, director Greta Gerwig and co-writer Noah Baumbach have slipped in plenty of signals that there’s a bit more cheekiness here and that there’s more than meets the eye, what with that blatant homage toin the film’s intro and trailer, and that cheeky throwaway opening narration by Helen Mirren in which she said “Thanks to Barbie, all problems of feminism and equal rights have been solved.
So, when the film’s plot puts Barbie and Ken in the real world for a short while, and Ken discovers the wonders of patriarchy, he then attempts to reverse that imbalance of power by attempting to brainwash all the Barbies and take over Barbie Land, turning it into a Ken-dom. And as if this allegory/layer to the film is not clear enough, we get two passages of dialogue that very clearly signals that this allegory/layer is definitely on Gerwig and Baumbach’s minds when they wrote this.
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