A director friend challenged me to watch "Barbie" after I'd finally watched "Oppenheimer" this Spring (I'm trying to expose myself to more modern movies that might become classics). I knew he wouldn't have done that to me if it wasn't at least a well-made, serious movie.
The opening scene was the best, most thoughtful spoof of Kubrick's opening to "2001: A Space Odyssey" that I've seen (of so many). That impressed me right off the bat.
I was expecting lots of woke, 4th generation feminism, and it was there, for sure. But they also juxtaposed it with it's mirror image, which all today would recognize as toxic masculinity--and thus revealing Barbie land to be toxic femininity? I still thought maybe that was me reading into the movie my own values.
But by the end, I became convinced that "Barbie" is actually a subversive (to woke, modern feminist ideals) endorsement of motherhood.
I know. Sounds crazy. But I challenge anyone to watch "Barbie" (with your wife or daughter--you might as well gain some credit for yourself, right guys?) and just watch for how motherhood is presented--as well as how anti-motherhood and womanhood without children is presented--throughout the movie to the end.
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