Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Well the Barbie movie has finally come to streaming, and I actually quite enjoyed it. I thought it was successfully funny and absurd, and it didn't really lose its pacing until the last quarter or so. It was way better than I thought it would be. But to me, what makes Barbie interesting is that from the very beginning it's full of social commentary and criticism; not just criticizing misogyny, but really, more so, corporatism and greed. And yet, despite that, the film is inevitably a product. A product about a product. And the writers cannot escape the fact that without corporatism and greed, this film would not exist, nor would they as professionals. Watching Barbie is a bit like watching capitalism eat itself, just a little bit. I was not expecting to say that.
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Well the Barbie movie has finally come to streaming, and I actually quite enjoyed it. I thought it was successfully funny and absurd, and it didn't really lose its pacing until the last quarter or so. It was way better than I thought it would be. But to me, what makes Barbie interesting is that from the very beginning it's full of social commentary and criticism; not just criticizing misogyny, but really, more so, corporatism and greed. And yet, despite that, the film is inevitably a product. A product about a product. And the writers cannot escape the fact that without corporatism and greed, this film would not exist, nor would they as professionals. Watching Barbie is a bit like watching capitalism eat itself, just a little bit. I was not expecting to say that.
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