Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
the sense of dread is palpable from the start and i’ve yet to watch a film since that made me gasp with hands to mouth.
also, id not recommend this film to work colleagues because it might be awks the next day…😔
so i get that the film is a corporate ad from mattel for barbie and not the bastion of feminist literature but i don’t understand how this film was lauded for its messages? it undermined its own point at almost every turn.
It felt like a film that belongs in the 2011, with entry level white cis-centered feminism. The barbies (inc weird barbie) at no point were unconventionally attractive, instead being hyper feminine at all times. The idea of beauty…
I watched this film when i was 18, in the midst of an emotionally abusive relationship and struggling with self-destructive BPD behaviour’s, both of which would last for the remainder of my 20s.
The acting, the setting, the score, the script, emotionally winded me in a way i knew i would never watch the film again. And i didn’t.
Until last night, when i asked my current partner to watch it with me. I sat in our house with our…