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    The movie explores themes of gender equality and balance of power through the contrast of Barbie Land, run solely by women, and the real world, run by men. When Ken travels from Barbie Land to the real world, he brings back ideals of male leadership that disrupt the female-led society. In the end, balance is not achieved and things return to the initial unequal dynamic, warning that changing established social norms is difficult. The film uses visual and musical elements to represent the need for both genders to feel included and share power equally.

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    The movie explores themes of gender equality and balance of power through the contrast of Barbie Land, run solely by women, and the real world, run by men. When Ken travels from Barbie Land to the real world, he brings back ideals of male leadership that disrupt the female-led society. In the end, balance is not achieved and things return to the initial unequal dynamic, warning that changing established social norms is difficult. The film uses visual and musical elements to represent the need for both genders to feel included and share power equally.

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    The movie explores themes of gender equality and balance of power through the contrast of Barbie Land, run solely by women, and the real world, run by men. When Ken travels from Barbie Land to the real world, he brings back ideals of male leadership that disrupt the female-led society. In the end, balance is not achieved and things return to the initial unequal dynamic, warning that changing established social norms is difficult. The film uses visual and musical elements to represent the need for both genders to feel included and share power equally.

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    JASMINE’S BARBIE FILM REVIEW

    I believe Greta Gurwig’s message to the audience was when it comes to who is in charge, you need a
    balance of the genders because extremes don’t work. This entire movie takes place in two key
    locations of Venice beach and Barbie land, set in 2023. This setting is important to the key themes as
    it creates a strong contrast between two extremes. The movie starts off in Barbie Land, a plastic fake
    world where women run everything. As the start progresses, things start to go weird for Barbie, she
    needs to go into the real world to solve what is going wrong. The transition between worlds is
    possible through a series of different travel methods. Ken, who came too, finds out how the real
    world operates with men in charge, and brings those ideals into Barbie land. In the real world, Mattel
    is trying to set everything straight and get Barbie and Ken back into their world. When Barbie gets
    back to Barbie land with two humans to help her bring herself back to normal, she and all the other
    Barbies need to execute a plan to get everything back.

    The main characters are Original Ken and Barbie played by Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. The
    purpose of these characters ( other than being the most well-known Barbie characters ) was to
    create two polar opposite values that go head-to-head. Ken believes that men should be in charge
    and Barbie believes women should be in charge.

    When Ken is singing the song “I’m just Ken” questioning his reality, everything in the scene adds to
    this over-arching theme of gender equality. The lighting used created on pink lit side and one blue lit
    side, with a white middle ground. In my eyes, this helps to represent that two genders are battling
    out against one another, trying to win who is in charge. The song, “I’m just Ken” shows the thought
    of how even in a woman run world, one gender will feel left out, and if they aren’t good enough. As
    the dance number continues, they dance from one side to the other, and in the middle representing
    how we need that middle ground for everyone to help each other and feel complete. Overall, the
    song communicates to us as a viewer that balance is needed when it comes to who is in charge.

    In the end after the Barbies gain their leadership roles and positions back, it doesn’t go into a perfect
    world where leadership is shared equally, it goes back to the way it was. I feel as if Greta Gurwig’s
    direction with this was well executed, creating a warning to humanity in the process. I feel as if this
    decision was made to show that if we take over, as some think feminism is, it will backfire, and the
    world will return to as it was. Roots have been established in our ways and it will be hard to change
    everyone’s opinion. The writing in this ending was also done wonderfully, with my favourite line
    being, “Humans only have one ending. Ideas live forever.” Funnelling the idea that humans that
    created this world we live in died, but their idea is still here.

    Overall, the movie is recommended in my opinion even if you didn’t like barbie as a kid. It promotes
    real world solutions to problems we face. I feel as if the directing, lighting, writing, soundtrack, and
    choreography help to create a flow-through movie with values at it’s core.

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