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7central · 1 year ago

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Ryan Gosling really tricked everyone with his promo circuit embodying Ken as a mindless trophy husband who just loves Barbie. kinda makes it disappointing when you watch the movie and he invents friendzone mentality and the patriarchy lol

#barbie spoilers #overall enjoyed the barbie movie but I found it kinda disheartening #a lot of jokey acknowledgement of misogyny but then Barbie entered the real world and didn't really change anything #not so much a feminist narrative (purports itself to be one) as a movie that is self aware about reality w/ minimal challenging of it #similar to the complicated history of barbie I suppose #also. barbie had such a downer plot but the kens had a dance number #idk. I think that when a script is full of references to misogyny it should do a least a little legwork on that. felt a little cheap #but the set and the costumes? absolutely godly could not get enough best thing ever

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