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My thoughts on Barbie · What is on Andrea Asteroid's mind?

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  My dad just went to see Openheimen, so it started to make me think
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  I'm just gonna go for it. I'm gonna run with the Barberheimen vibe that's
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  been going on since both Barbie and Openheiman were released the same weekend and the
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  big summer movies being pushed. And give my review about Barbie. For those
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  of you who don't know, I did waste my time studying television film production.
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  So when you take television film production classes, you're taught to look at
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  movies in a certain way. So I'll say that the redeeming parts of Barbie
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  is the cinematography. And you know how they got Barbara lam pretty good,
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  very color a full cute. The jokes that were funny or at least to
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  me, like when Ken said, oh, I'm gonna beat you up,
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  and Ken I can totally clueless on what patriarchy means and when he was researching
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  what it meant showing love to the Indigo girls. But there was some problematic
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  lines for me personally, because here's the thing. There was the line that
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  went something to the effective, oh there was a pregnant Barbie, but oh
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  they thought she was too weird, and God, dis continued and taking issue
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  with that line because of taking the angle of how it came off. It
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  sounds like it's being said from pro abortion, who on their Twitter page puts
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  pro choice feminist in the bio, not realizing how their message comes across.
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  When things are said like if a woman doesn't want to have a kid,
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  she shouldn't have to have one, or oh, a woman should have a
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  career, she shouldn't have to be a mom, it gets in their head.
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  And when I mean getting their head, we're talking to the point where
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  that's part of the reason why women have abortions, and it isn't me blowing
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  smoke. I think that assessment makes sense when another line in the movie was
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  a scene with Will Ferrell and some of the other Mattel executives all of a
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  sudden sinking back, Oh we don't have female CEOs. They wonder why a
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  pregnant Barbie wouldn't go over. Well, so I totally get why my fellow
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  anti abortion would not be cool with the movie. And oh yeah, just
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  when there wasn't enough ammal with that scene, then the pro abortion narrative came
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  out when there was all this excitement, Oh we changed the Constitution, Barbie
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  Land has her autonomy back, and again some would say I'm going overboard and
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  oh, it's just a toy movie, but no, let's keep it real.
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  It was a dig on role being overturned, and even if it wasn't
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  about the pro abortion stuff, it just got confusing because it made me wonder
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  what are they trying to get at Because you have the scenes getting on the
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  subjective death, so it makes you wonder, is this a movie about mortality?
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  Then you had the scene with the creator of Barbies, so it made
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  me wonder is it a movie about perseverance and overcoming setbacks? Yeah, kind
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  of got a little weird for me. There you have it. Those are
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  the thoughts out the top of my head on how I feel about Barbie and
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  until the next One Piece and Chick and Greece.