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This!
"Pure escapism and fun. Really fun. God, remember when movies used to be fun?"
https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/barbie-and-the-pain-of-being-alive
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Also, so much this!
"Grief is so powerful it renders us mute and makes us turn to poetry, to art, to writing, to films. We want to know ‘has anyone else felt this exact same way?’ ‘Do you hurt like this too?’ ‘Does it get better?’ ‘How do I stop the bleeding?’"
https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/barbie-and-the-pain-of-being-alive
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“Humans only have one ending. Ideas last forever.”
Barbie, 2023
... is an insightful riff on a line from the V for Vendetta movie (arguably the main subtext of the original comic);
"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
