Margot was fucking awesome in that movie, and it showed people that both matriarchy and patriarchy are bad ideas. It was a pro freedom, pro innovation movie. And it was even coming at things from a somewhat left framework. I guess the Oscars hate freedom and thinking outside the box.
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I’ve never even seen it, and have heard the opposite of it being anything about freedom or equality. Both the director and actors alone make that sound like a stretch, but as I understand the rough plot, it started with “the matriarchy”, then the men found out that “they run the real world,” and thus took over, everything fell apart, and the Barbie’s had to come back and take over again and then they put the Kens in their place and all was set right… am I wrong in this summary?
That's not exactly it. There were some lessons learned along the way. Those people aren't reading the deeper message. They say at the end that it would be better to have equality instead of a matriarchy and that men and women can make it on their own merits. There's a little message about corporate incompetence and yet how the profit motive is not antithetical to good change. There's a little joke explaining to the audience that what they keep calling "fascism" is not really fascism unless it controls the flow of commerce.
It is a feminist movie that actually didn't make me gag as a man.
Yeah, that isn't it. I expected to hate it based on the internet rage machine. It was very clear that sexism is bad. Women in charge with no checks is just as bad as men in charge with no checks just in different ways. I actually LOL a couple of times and I liked it in the end. Robbie and Gosling were both great. Will Ferrel is the worst part of the movie, but I generally dislike him anyway.
That said, I don't know what counts towards oscars these days, but it didn't look like an oscar bait movie to me. Those are all "gritty" last time I looked and Barbie isn't gritty at all.
Well cool, appreciate the responses and now I’m more interested in actually giving it a watch. Was pretty sure I wasn’t going to enjoy any of it based on what I had heard previously