The Barbie Movie does a great job of telling a story to a vast audience while focusing on one main group. The movie’s story of Womanhood and acceptance help to balance out the theme of self-discovery.
Margot Robbie’s character, Barbie, shows the audience unrealistic beauty standards that society has pushed onto women. We also see that Ryan Gosling’s character, Ken, shows the audience a stereotypical man.
As the movie progresses we see how Ken is dependent on Barbie and how Barbie doesn’t see her worth in him. This point is hit hard at the end of the first act of the movie when Barbie breaks down after she starts to see herself as “ugly”, even when Ken is still interested.
Barbie has to learn to find worth in herself to be truly happy, and Ken has to do the same thing. Even though the struggles they go through are different they still have the same outcome.
Self-worth is essentialimportant and a movie telling you to see yourself in these characters allows you to connect to at leastatleast one of them and improve. A movie targeted at women having a message for all audiences is what pushes the Barbie movie to a whole new level.
With all this praise, it might be difficult to see how people could not like the movie.
With the movie’s release, there has been a division in how the movie has been affecting the public, some have been saying that the movie is harmful to consumers and others have been saying it’s very important that this movie was made.
As soon as this division was made, it seemed to become a political matter. Different political parties chose a side and stuck to their guns no matter what. Calling the movie evil and trying to silence the movie.
Now that the movie is out the political aspect seems to have died down, people have been enjoying it and themselves at the theatre.
People were enjoying the event so much that many were even dressing up. All over TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter, you can find photos of people dressed up as Ken and Barbie.
Dressing up as one of these characters became so prominent that on release day you could tell what movie everyone was there for. This also added to the experience of the movie, as it led to widespread common ground. No Kens or Barbies were excluded.
Ultimately, from a film critic’s point of view, the movie has excellent great pacing, visuals, story, and themes. A slow second act leads into a great third act. Part of the movie was underwhelming in the sense that nothing progresses but this is necessary for good pacing, so it gets a pass.
Even if the filmmaking doesn’t hold a candle to the themes and message, the themes and message are important “Kenough” that this movie gets a solid 8 out of 10.