Barbie

Barbie

A comedy movie. 114 minutes. Released in 2003. Directed by Greta Gerwig. Starring Margot Robbie.

It follows a stereotypical Barbie, who is happily living in the fantasy world, Barbieland, suddenly thinks about death, goes to the real world and knows about the truth.

I was born to my mother always complaining that women are at a disadvantage and my father occasionally shouting that you will shut your mouth, woman and boys, so I have been kind of sensitive to sexual discrimination. Although I thought that I did not like Ms. Yoko Tajima who my mother admired and who I thought of as interesting but dubious, yet I have started to realize that the discrimination has changed in the United States little by little after I saw Bombshell and Promising Young Woman some years ago. As well as Olivia Wilde, the director of Don't Worry Darling, Greta Gerwig, who directed Lady Bird, Little Women and Barbie, makes me ponder about the feminist movement. I do not like the film because it is a kind of fantasy fiction and has a lot of pink. All the same, I agree with Gerwing's remarks about the men's groundless confidence.

As for the actors, the lead, Margot Robbie, was really pretty and fascinating, moreover, she gave a wonderful performance as well as in the previous flick Babylon. She was always brilliant.

I had heard about the news of atomic bomb mushroom clouds appearing in it before I watched it, however, the clouds did not. Closely checking about the news, they were just depicted on a social network. It is a pity to stop seeing the movie due to the fuss, though we should not make light of antinuclear movements.