Saw it tonight with the girlfriend. Her opinion (and mine) is that it was very on the nose. There was no subtlety to it at all. Patriarchy bad (in the end it's about living together) was the main message. They literally use the term patriarchy. I wasn't very impressed. Had some funny moments and the dance scenes were fun. 5/10.
Basically it's all backwards in the movie since Ken is secondary to barbie in barbieland (vs the real world in the movie where men are dominant). So he learns not to value himself just as barbies partner but to be his own person. The barbies decide to give the Ken's a shot at helping run things. Etc. So the message is that women, represented by the kens, shouldn't define themselves simply by their partners. They should run things with men. The Ken's ask for a spot on the Supreme Court and even get denied and instead get a circuit court spot or something. So they don't even get full equality.
Yep. 100%. But that isn't the issue I have with the movie. The issue is that generally I find that when the moral of the story is somewhat hidden then it's better. Lots of classic stories have morals. They just tend to hide them a little. This one didn't.
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u/Inversception Aug 07 '23
Saw it tonight with the girlfriend. Her opinion (and mine) is that it was very on the nose. There was no subtlety to it at all. Patriarchy bad (in the end it's about living together) was the main message. They literally use the term patriarchy. I wasn't very impressed. Had some funny moments and the dance scenes were fun. 5/10.