Heās the only doll (besides the Weird House) who isnāt swayed in some way by Kenās takeover
He also declares himself as āKenās buddy" (making canon his official box description) which makes his inability to be swayed more interesting
He has bendable legs (probably the only reason he tries to jump the fence instead of going around like everyone else)
He easily decked a half-dozen construction Kens and could probably singlehandedly win the Ken fight
He seems to know more about the real world than most Barbies
He knows what NSYNC isĀ
He knows about other Allan copies living in the real world (Iām trying to figure out if he made this up to convince the humans he can live in the real world, but even if he did, how does he know what NSYNC is???)
the fact that a bunch of Allanās escaped Barbieland and became hit boyband group NSYNC is actually so insane and probably the best thing I have ever heardĀ
Itās important to recognise that Barbie (2023) criticises both the patriarchy AND the matriarchy. Yes, the Kenās are just accessories to the Barbies. Yes, they donāt have any say in the government they live under. Thatās the point, youāre supposed to feel awful, youāre supposed to want the Kens to have their own agency, youāre supposed to want equality. The Barbie movie explicitly states that the way Barbie treats Ken is wrong, so much so that once he finds a safe space for his masculinity and individual identity heās so excited to share it with the other Kens.
But they go overboard and replace a matriarchy with a patriarchy and now the same issue exists but in reverse. Thatās the POINT!! THATS THE POINT!!! Barbie is not anti-men itās pro equality PLEASE understand this
But one is a stranger, a woman she notices while she sits on a bench, gathering herself. Itās a type of woman she has never seen before, because there are no old women in Barbieland. When Barbie looks at her, she finds her beautiful and tells her so. The woman already knows. Suddenly Barbie, the fraught aspirational figure, has beheld someone she might aspire to be, and it is a radiantly content nonagenarian, reading a newspaper on a Los Angeles bench, who knows what sheās worth.
āThe idea of a loving God whoās a mother, a grandmother ā who looks at you and says, āHoney, youāre doing OKā ā is something I feel like I need and I wanted to give to other people,ā Gerwig says. When it was suggested that this scene, which Gerwig calls a ātransaction of grace,ā might be cut for time, she remembers thinking: āIf I cut that scene, I donāt know why Iām making this movie. If I donāt have that scene, I donāt know what it is or what Iāve done.ā
I hate the "Oh ur posting without tags? how is anyone supposed to find ur postš„ŗ" warning shit tumblr does now. the hand of god will deliver me unto others