Episode 164: Barbie
Beyond the Screenplay
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The Narrative Shortcut to Barbie
"This is the plastic world that Barbie lives in. Everything's perfect. It's fixed at all and there's no need for feminism because women are empowered in the real world," he says. "I would rather the movie spend its time doing other things, right? All the nuance, like complexity and the like beauty of the way that it discusses these thematic ideas is worth the time,. whereas that expository information is not."
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