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Episode 164: Barbie

Beyond the Screenplay

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Greta Gerwig's Barbie Land

The movie felt like it was to me, I had these expectations at a certain point that this was gonna be next level in its examination of men and women in society. And then once we got to the second half of the movie with the Kendum and the patriarchy, it was kind of the little boy version of everything. So on the one hand, it's a miracle and it's amazing and it's so brilliant and great. On the other hand, I had such high expectations. The mismatch of what she actually did was like bothering me. But everything else in the movie is just so damn good and it's such a primal like scream in so many ways that is so cathartic

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