Noah @ Pride
The collective gasp of what had to be atleast 300 people when President Barbie drop the f-bomb
I don't think I ever heard so many people make a same sound in the same moment
whole movie was great but the cutest scene for me was when ncuti gatwa's ken was like "I just miss my best friend barbie :( " and then emma mackey's barbie was like "here I am!!! :D " and ran over to hug him. like that did something to me emotionally.
Just got home from the Barbie movie and wow.
I can't stop thinking about how beautifully the Barbie movie portrays that often times when men (speaking in very binary terms, apologies) are hurt and feel wronged they'll act out in ways that hurt people, may that be purposefully or inadvertently. And society enforces this. Meanwhile women, who are used to living in a hostile world, will often express and process their pains in ways that don't harm others.
But Ken never wanted to hurt anyone. He just was hurt and didn't know how to deal with it. He found the first thing that gave him an outlet and some inkling of comfort and latched onto it. And after Ken has had his supposed "villain arc", Barbie isn't mad at him. She lets him know it's okay to cry.
The villain was never Ken himself, it was the fact that society is built in a way that prevents men from having ways to safely process and regulate their emotions. A society that punishes men for crying and confiding in friends and wanting to be comforted.
The Barbie movie isn't anti men. It's a big fuck you to our society that is hellbent on keeping everyone in an eternal cycle of hurt.
… Clockodiles? Is that pun very bad?
CLOCKODILES.
somewhere captain hook is shitting himself
Barbie is aroace.
Barbie is aroace.
Barbie is aroace.
Barbie is aroace.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
