#574 — Laura McGann, Christopher Nolan
The Empire Film Podcast
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The Surrealist Existential Oddity of Barbie
The film is the big pink, funny, wacky comedy that you were expecting from those trailers. But it's also about why does Barbie exist as a concept? What was Barbie invented for? And what did Barbie mean now? The actual narrative basically flips between being a straight up plot and then also the subtext of the movie becoming the plot at a certain point. "I don't think I've had a better time in the end of the year," he says.
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