Bizarre Take #2: The Downfall of Our Favorite Doll

WARNING: you might disagree : D (sorry)

Written In the infamous tone of Sarah Vowell (The Infamous Gray-Area Patriot):


“You can go back to your regular life…or you can know the truth about the universe :)” - Weird Barrie (Personally, I resonated with this barbie the most!)


Weird Barbie!

Recently this past summer, the new Barbie movie came out! A classic rendition of everyone’s childhood favorite doll, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. It was a brilliant watch, must I say, and it definitely had me on the edge of my seat at certain moments. Tons of advertising was done to help promote the movie (In my opinion, way too much pink!)  Audiences, however, seemed to love it, and were obsessed with the release of this film the second it came out, but so were critics. I mean, a lot of the ideas mentioned were definitely controversial, don't you think? The depiction of the beauty standards for Barbie, the masculine role taking over a primarily feminine dominated society 1 hour in, and loads of historical inaccuracies/references that came off as rude or insensitive. Wasn’t this supposed to be a nostalgic, tug-at-the-heartstrings film, and not a controversial take on modern society and femininity sugar coated in pink and glitter? 

Scenes from the Barbie film!

Now, these are just some of the takes I heard online by users who probably had nothing else to do in their lives except melt away in front of brightly lit screens. Personally, I’d say I enjoyed the movie myself, as Barbie was a childhood classic growing up, and had my entire heart. I remember begging my mom to buy the life-size dream house kits and the latest barbie editions that always came out. Barbie was a way for me to embrace my femininity and feel comfortable with it, while also having fun and living life! However, since I was older and was able to interpret some of the hidden messages and idioms behind all the pink, I could pick apart at what may have been some of the controversial takes that people had. Films are just a bunch of random messages jumbled up together; it’s just the viewers choice whether they want to be sly and spot them, something I found quite entertaining myself!  If you’re actively watching, you’ll notice that this perfect pink movie isn’t as wonderful as it seems, and the only thing that truly matters from this movie is that we’re all kenough <3

- Your Literature Barbie,

Prisha!

Comments

  1. fortnightSeptember 14, 2023 at 8:03 PM

    fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just like do i wanna know

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2023 at 2:25 PM

    Nice job having a conversational tone with not too much vocab that it sounds very academic. I also wrote something mimicking the tone of one of the authors we read about this week. But, I wrote an imitation writing with David Foster Wallace’s tone in the grocery store anecdote instead of Vowell’s tone in her writing.

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    1. Pelon LinSeptember 15, 2023 at 2:26 PM

      Btw: this is my comment. I accidentally made it anonymous.

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  3. Arya ShahSeptember 16, 2023 at 5:53 PM

    I think this is was such a fun take on Vowell’s tone! I absolutely love how you mentioned “femininity sugar coated in pink and glitter”. It captures her humorous yet blunt attitude, and actually makes a strong point.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2023 at 7:22 AM

    This was really interesting to read! Imitating Vowell's tone and applying it to Barbie was a really cool idea, since it made the bluntness of the situation even more apparent. When you talked about how barbie was being criticized by people who "...melt away in front of brightly lit screens", I found that hilarious because it's true.

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  5. bismaad kaurSeptember 17, 2023 at 12:31 PM

    I love how you were able to incorporate multiple counterarguments into the blog. Addressing both sides really helped this post come together!

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 18, 2023 at 12:11 AM

    I love that you are able to recognize the lighthearted nature of this movie. Even though it had a lot of harsh moments, this is a movie we can all laugh at as it was initially marketed as. In my option it’s possible to do both.

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