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Episode 164: Barbie

Beyond the Screenplay

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The Ken of It All and the Ken of It All

I think the movie, it feels so honest in Barbie's story, like everything we're talking about deeply honest and authentic. But I personally didn't resonate with it in the same way where I did feel more silly and dopey and like cartoonish. It felt more like a cartoon now that there's not a rageously absurd, you know, misogyny online in our culture still talking about Barbie for one. And his journey is almost kind of like mommy issues or kind of something where it's like he's not differentiated from his like maternal figure and he needs to become like his own person.

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