barbieits colorful world inhabited by Ken and from many others Barbie that have been produced over the years, becomes a film. It’s a bit like seeing Pinocchio, the fairy tale of the puppet that everyone knows as children, magically come to life. Even the most famous doll on the planet deserved its new life on the big screen (in theaters today) thanks to Greta Gerwig.
To give it body is Margot Robbiethe hottest actress of the moment together with Zendayawhich he had already convinced in Babylon by Damien Chazelle and in Tonya, thanks to which he had received an Oscar nomination. In Greta Gerwig’s film she is just as convincing, together with her partner in wild adventures Ken, played by Ryan Goslin, also perfect with sculpted abs and biceps, blond hair, cool clothes and fluorescent rollerblades. However, the life of the two is turned upside down when they come into contact with the real world.
Barbie: the plot of the film with Margot Robbie
«Dolls have existed since the dawn of time, they were always dolls with which the girls played at being mothers, then she arrived, Barbie». Thus begins the film. While the voice off (Helen Mirren) tells of the advent of the coolest doll on the planet, Margot Robbie dressed in a bathing suit and sunglasses, she towers like the monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey (there are also drum sounds reminiscent of the famous monkey scene in the film by Kubrick). Around her there is a group of little girls who destroy their dolls, throwing them to the ground with fury. It is the incipit and the most beautiful scene of the film.
This is where the adventure of “Stereotypical Barbie” (Robbie), who lives in his colorful Barbielandwhere everything is perfect and where every day it’s the best day.
It seems to enter right into the world of Barbiein his plastic house, with its objects and glam clothes, where pink and all its nuances stand out on Barbieland. Many live here Barbie and many Kenincluding the blond Ryan Gosling, that exists only as a function of her gaze. The smile, the lightness and carelessness coexist in this “toy place”, until the doll that conveyed the independence concept among little girls, she has thoughts of death and her feet suddenly become flat. What’s going on? To find out Stereotypical Barbie she has to deal with the little girl who used to play with her in the real world.
Margot Robbie. (Warner Bros Pictures)
Barbie and Ken between musicals, irony and existential crisis
Barbie and Ken they go through a portal that takes them to the world of humans. Here they are confronted with a completely different reality from their own. Women are not the absolute point of reference as it happens to Barbieland: Ken in fact, he discovers that the so-called applies patriarchyWhile Barbie discovers feelings never felt before, such as sadness. Between one ballet and another, moments of musicals, funny jokes, the two go in search of themselves.
Ken return to Barbieland to turn it into Kenlandalong the lines of the world of men, while Barbie she tries to restore her world and rearrange her ideas: something clicked in her after meeting her creator and who played with her as a child. Maybe those feet that are no longer on their toes I’m not that bad and those drops that occasionally come down from the eyes, albeit a symptom of achemake you feel vital and because in real life you suffer and laugh.
Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Greta Gerwig film review
Greta Gerwig takes us to a colorful and perfect world to travel with his Barbie prey to one Existential crisis. Stereotypical Barbie is finding ways to feel comfortable about herself and understand what that means.”ordinary”. Freewheeling follows her Kenwho sings “I’m just Ken. I exist only in the warmth of your gaze – he says to Barbie – without that I am an ordinary blond». He is also looking for an identity.
From the director of Ladybird we would have expected a deeper readinga more authorial look, e instead everything stops on the surface. Some found are funny And they work, Margot Robbie And Ryan Gosling I am perfectwhat creaksa bit like the psyche and the body of Barbieis that journey in search of oneself that does not dig deep, that does not go beyond issues already addressed in other films such as The perfect woman, which does not slip into the heart of the viewer. Diners find the dish a little cold. Sure it’s fine in the summer, but some tastier ingredients were needed. Barbie it tells nothing but the evolution of the doll Mattel: from icon of perfect and unattainable beautyrepresenting the independent woman, an ordinary woman.
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