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.