Barbie’s Feminist Makeover: From Corny Toy to Charming Satire

2023-07-19 18:15:07

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Greta Gerwig had the near-impossible mission of dusting off Mattel’s corny toy. Despite frankly tyrannical marketing, a successful bet for this charming satire that does not allow itself to be devoured by its paradoxes.

Make no mistake regarding it, Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s biopic on the inventor of the atomic bomb is released this Wednesday, July 19, but the real Leviathan, the weapon of mass seduction and summer hit, c is good Barbie. A fiction in real shots therefore, co-produced by the toy giant Mattel in full strategy of reconquest: Warner is playing big since it is a question of showing that the sexagenarian doll is still in the game. This has given rise to the most totalitarian propaganda that we have seen in recent memory (theme villa for rent on Airbnb, sandwiches with girly sauce at the Brazilian branch of Burger King, even the bistro tables in front of Liberation premises adorned with the poster in its pink puke…), to have fun with your head once morest the walls. Barbie, it’s you, me, all of us, love her or hate her, the package generously asserted – look, a black Barbie and president! –, breaking with the old image of the blonde that no one would ever be. Came to mind this founding scene of the series Girls by Lena Dunham, on the cronyism of magazines where the readers are referred to as “the girls” Who are “the girls exactly?” “It’s us, we’re all the girls!” Did we still have the right to scream that we wouldn’t be forced to be Barbie? !

Feminist plastic woman facelift

Doubt had crept in as to the existence of a film behind the infernal shrapnel, dried up by the entrance

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