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I won't read the spoilers, but I assume the movie ends with Margot Robbie realizing that a world where men and woman are "equal" is meaningless without true egalitarianism and will merely reproduce the contradictions of capital? And she liberates a Mattel sweatshop?
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Is it a sign of cultural progress or regression that instead of pwning nerds over Prometheus SMG has to pwn libs over Barbie?
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Aug 7, 2023 01:35
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The movie feels locked in an unresovable conondrum because it doesn't know if existence preceeds essence, or not. Is Barbieland a Platonic World of Forms that structures human reality, or is it a mere epiphenomenon of underlying material conditions? The obvious answer is "both," but because this is a product of neoliberal capital, the tendency is to assign priority to the former idea--hence when Ken takes over Barbieland, Ken toys suddenly begin to sell like hotcakes. But, as has already been pointed out, the Real World in the movie's fiction is itself a kind of frothy How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying satire. This is probably the only way for Gerwig to portray a multinational CEO as a basically well-meaning guy, but how does this reflect back on Gloria and the real Real World? She is, in this unseen third reality, presumably some kind of high level executive with dreams of actually working in the company's more creative/design departments. Unfortunately this really real story is so obfuscated by layers of imagination and simulation it's almost impossible to discern the real narrative in play here. As near as I can tell this movie is about a tween girl who is alienated from her mother because she perceives her as a functionary in a demonic court, poisoning the world's biosphere with its plastic waste and poisoning the world soul with its alien and unsustainable vision of midcentury American prosperity. However, the girl learns to forgive her mother by identifying with her purer, prelapsarian childhood love of said products. Redemption is a function of internal change--the product and its consequences may be demonic, but our feelings about them are not.
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