#greta is a genius

[sapphos-hoes]

greta gerwig, woman that you are <3

[justjudethoughts]

Hot Take about Greta Gerwig's Barbie but for being advertised as a movie about "girlhood" and nostalgia and like, and how that informs what it means to be a woman, it really...wasn't?

My biggest petpeeve from the movie wasn't the "liberal propoganda" everyone said it was — my biggest problem was that the entire message was self-contradictory. Anytime one thing was asserted, something else would happen to undermine that claim. (See, the fact that we spend the entire movie talking about how the human world is horrible and men are scum, only to have Barbie decide she wants to be human at the end? Or the fact that the movie is about equality, only to decide that men in Barbieland can only ever have the level of rights women in the real world have, which is perpetuating the exact kind of discrimination the movie set out to decry).

There were multiple beautiful scenes of Barbie watching humans be human and those scenes almost made me cry, but they ultimately didn't actually have anything to do with the theme of the movie and could have been removed. They were just there to generate emotions that were left totally unexplored. Which leads me to what I wish the Barbie movie had been:

I wish it had followed the outline of a lot of Christmas movies, like the Santa Claus movies. I wish it followed a completely cynical grown woman who forgot what it was like to be a child, and with that, forgot virtue. I wish it showed us a woman who had bought into the lie that femininity is inherently bad, and that she should be "like a man" in order to climb in the business world. She doesn't let her kids have dolls, or tutus. And then she meets Barbie and suddenly she starts to remember. She remembers what it is like to see beauty everywhere you go. To trust that there are good people in this world. That letting yourself be sensitive is what makes you fully alive.

She sees Barbie—fashionista, astronaut, president, flight attendant, doctor — and remembers that she doesn't have to be a man. She can be a mother and a buisnesswoman. She can love her babies and climb in the buisnessworld. She can follow her dreams.

She sees the unique call of woman, the reason the world needs us — for our receptivity, our sensitivity, our interpersonal relationships, our nurturing, our creativity. Our ability to find beauty in the darkest of places and strengthen it. She realizes her business needs her, not as the brash bossbabe she has been taught to be, but as the compassionate, open-minded child she was. As the person who can build bridges, not be a cut throat buisness woman.

I wish it had been about the virtues of girlhood. And how remembering what it was like to be a child makes you a better woman today.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[rodrickheffeley]

literally so obsessed with "she's everything, he's just ken" line

[pedropascalisnotdaddy]

BARBIELAND

[ismellpestilence]

Greta Gerwig should be allowed to make every movie she wants to make forever and ever

[joshsindigostreak]

Alas, I have some unfortunate news in regards to Breada Van Fleet, the sourdough starter. She succumbed to the Cold Winds of the refrigerator, and was laid to rest yesterday. But it is A New Day! For I started a second starter yesterday afternoon, and she is thriving.

Everyone, I’d like for you to join me in Watching Over…

Miradough

[olliequeensrecedinghairline]

Something about Barbie I really love is how perfect the casting was (I'll only go over a couple)

Margot Robbie was absolutely impeccable, hit all the right moments, and while I loved the joke where she said she's not pretty enough to be Barbie, with the narrator responding that "casting Margot Robbie might not be the best choice to convey this point" I feel like there's something deeper behind that

It's a long held stereotype in Hollywood that actresses are past their prime once they hit 30, they are no longer starlets and abandoned, with Margot Robbie being 33 she's right at the point that she would be considered too old

Greta Gerwig said her first and most deliberate casting was Ryan Gosling, which seemed to upset a lot of people, saying he was too old, but with both main characters going through existential crisis it makes sense for a man in his 40s, especially since he plays the classic Ken, one of the oldest models

I'm very happy my girlfriend was there to explain some history to me in how there have not been many Asian Ken's out there and would be a fairly recent addition, so using Simu Liu, who is the new Hollywood it boy, as the main opposition to the aging Kens insecurity about Barbie's interest in other Kens was very clever

As a mother America Ferrera has personal experience that she brings to the role that feels so personal, plus with her biggest role as Ugly Betty, the main character of a show about fashion and challenging traditional beauty norms is very fitting

(plus the fact that her movie husband is her real life husband was a nice touch)

Will Ferrell

[jpegofdoriangray]

alright literally begging the boygenius members to get the boyband treatment like where are the x readers this is so rude

[oliverreedmasterass]

josh kiszka giving a rig rundown on his mics when?? 

[s0livagant]

My need for Jake kiszka and Julien baker to reenact the Spider-Man pointing meme is so strong

[sinners-go-to-drink-the-wine]

Pinterest, you can lower your volume, I get it

[agir1ukn0w]

for the record I love all the people making connections between Barbie and Poor Things, they’re both fundamentally similar and yet so wonderfully different, but equally important as films, I think. plus the costumes are fire.

[idkmybffjillyy]

yall after getting out of the barbie movie i had to buy a large ice cream and drive around with "what was i made for" on repeat

[jakesguitarsolo]

Please go listen to The Night Does Not Belong to God and then immediately listen to Euclid.

Be prepared to feel all the emotions and cry your eyes out.

[darcyolsson]

listened to fizz(dodie and orla gartland's band)'s first single and i dont know what i expected but it's so good. of course i expected it to be incredibly good but i'm genuinely sat here in shock at how good this is