Introduction:
Summary
Stereotypical Barbie and her fellow Barbie’s live in a
matriarchal society in Barbie land, where they pursue careers
while the Ken dolls relax on the beach. During a dance party,
Stereotypical Barbie becomes preoccupied with her own
mortality. The next day, she experiences depression and
physical changes. Weird Barbie, a local outcast, offers her
advice, revealing that everyone in Barbie land is, in fact, a toy.
Stereotypical Barbie must venture into the real world to find
her owner in order to overcome her mysterious affliction.
While en route to Los Angeles, Stereotypical Barbie is joined
by a Ken who has unreciprocated feelings for her. Upon their
arrival at Venice Beach through a portal, their misadventures
attract the attention of the CEO of Mattel, who orders their
apprehension. Stereotypical Barbie eventually manages to find
her owner, a teenage girl named Sasha. Initially, Sasha and
her friends make fun of Barbie, but they later learn that
Sasha's mother, Gloria, who works at Mattel, is the underlying
cause of Barbie's existential crisis. During her midlife crisis,
Gloria had played with Sasha's Barbie toys, inadvertently
transferring her own worries to Stereotypical Barbie. Just as
Stereotypical Barbie is on the brink of being captured by
Mattel's CEO and his associates, Gloria and Sasha intervene,
and together, they return to Barbie land. Meanwhile, Ken
becomes aware of the patriarchal system in the United States
and discovers that men hold dominant positions in society.
Upon returning to Barbie land, he persuades the other Ken
dolls to rise up and establish their own male-dominated
hierarchy. This results in the Barbie’s feeling disheartened and
being quickly relegated to subservient roles as maids,
housewives, and girlfriends. Stereotypical Barbie experiences
depression due to these changes. With the support and
encouragement of individuals like Sasha, Gloria, Weird
Barbie, Allan, and various other abandoned Barbie toy lines,
the Barbie’s gather the motivation to rebel against the Ken’s
and reclaim control over Barbie land. This leads to a conflict
among the Ken’s on the Barbie land beach. After a truce is
reached, the Barbie’s swiftly regain authority over their
society, causing Ken to emotionally break down. In the end,
both Stereotypical Barbie and Ken apologize to each other.
Stereotypical Barbie acknowledges her part in Ken's rebellion,
stemming from her rejection of his romantic advances. She
emphasizes to Ken that, even though she doesn't have
romantic feelings for him, he still has the power to shape his
own identity. Stereotypical Barbie faces another crisis
concerning her future role and meets once more with the CEO
of Mattel. However, their meeting is interrupted by Ruth
Handler. Ruth shares the origins of Barbie and how she has
been a source of inspiration for women over the years,
extending beyond her initial creation. This deeply touches
Stereotypical Barbie, prompting her to request that Ruth
transforms her into a human. In a realization, she comes to
understand that she is already a human. Subsequently, Sasha,
Gloria, and Gloria's husband accompany Stereotypical Barbie,
who now goes by the name Barbara Roberts, to a gynecologist
for her first medical appointment.
Stereotypical Barbie, who experiences a full
on existential crisis and embarks on a journey of
self discovery. Barbie and Ken are having the
time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly
perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when
they get a chance to go to the real world, they
soon discover the joys and perils of living
among humans.
Rising Action:
This part of the movie highlights the
imperfections that every individual possesses.
Barbie begins to experience some weird
changes on her. Noticing some physical
changes, like bad breath, some unwanted flesh
of physical appearance and flat feet. What
happened totally make her day gone wrong. Due
to the changes that she had experience and
curiosity she seek advice to the Weird Barbie to
overcome the mysterious changes on her body.
And to solve it she must travel to the human
world or real world in order to understand
herself and discover her true purpose.
Climax:
The thrilling part of the movie is that when
Barbie was already in the real world together
with Ken, finding her owner that would help her
to clear and understand the weird changes
happened onto her. Barbie discovered a lot of
things that exists in the real world. She
experienced harassment, like body shaming,
without her knowing that she was being
harassed. She thinks that the real world and
Barbie world are the same, that just like in
Barbie land she can do and wear anything
freely, without judgment. She started to felt and
show some emotions that only human had the
ability to. The Mattel (company) know that
Barbie was in the real world, they started to find
and planned to get the real Barbie. Because of
the troubles happened during at the Mattel
establishment Barbie and her owner Gloria
together with her daughter Sasha meet. Gloria
help Barbie to get away to the guys whom
chasing her.
 Falling Action:
In the Barbie film movie, the Barbie land
been ruled by ken and then Barbie losing hope
of getting back the peace and beauty that she
kept in Barbie land. The Barbie's had been
brainwashed by the bad ken's but with the help
of Gloria and her plans, the Barbie's are back to
their senses and not hypnotized to the bad ken's
anymore. They all back to reality that the Barbie
Land is a Barbie Land and not Kendom’s, that
the Barbie World must be ruled by the Barbie’s
and not Ken's. With the help of Gloria’s speech
and with her daughter, the Barbie's planned to
dominate the Barbie Land again.
Resolution:
The Barbie's overcome their challenges.
They fight against the bad Ken's. The Barbie's
are cooperating and work together, saving their
Barbie land to the bad Ken intentions. With the
help of Gloria and her daughter Sasha their plan
successfully work and they won the battle
against the Ken's. Barbie and her friends
achieve their goals. They celebrate their victory
to getting back the Barbie land as their home,
the world that represents beauty and peace, were
all of them have the positive point of view of
life. The Barbie land had taken back by the
Barbie's and ruled by the Barbie. Ken,
disappointed in being just an accessory to
Barbie, the two apologizes for each other’s
mistakes. President Barbie makes a friendly deal
with Mattel CEO, agreeing to equality for Kens
and other discontinued toys. The Ken's were
sorry for what happened, realizing that what
they did to the Barbie's was totally wrong, that
they just want to dominate their abilities as a
man, to live in the world were men can be on
themselves freely, without being ruled by the
women’s.
Settings:
 Barbie land
 Venice Beach Skate Park in Los
Angeles, California
 Warner Bros. Studios, Leaves den in
England • Real World
Symbolism:
In Barbie we see a group of silent little girls
playing with anonymous dolls without much
joy. Barbie appears in the prehistoric world as
an alien creature (or a glimpse of modernity).
By introducing the concept of a doll that can be
a woman's model, rather than representing
infants in need of a mother, the children enter a
new stage of their development, leapfrogging
directly into a more mature dimension.
In the scene where the Kens break into
Barbie Land, the Barbie’s stand in for the
empowerment of women because they support
one another and are capable of achieving
anything. Some supporters contend that Barbie
inspires girls to pursue their goals and
aspirations in a variety of careers by serving as a
positive role model. By including dolls of
various races, ethnicities, abilities, shapes, and
sizes, they also emphasize how Barbie has
developed over time to reflect the inclusivity
and diversity of contemporary society. Barbie
also serves as a symbol for the complexity of
femininity and the variety of roles that women
can fill in society.
In the scene where Ken saw the different
classes, clothes, and roles of men in society, it
symbolizes that men can rule the world, and
their different classes reflect who they are.
In the scene where Sasha and her friends
condemn Barbie and one of her friends said that
she likes Barbie. Then Sasha feels disapprove
about it. It symbolizes that if you have other
perspective then you will not be part from the
group.
In the scene where Barbie has her arched feet
going flat. It symbolizes that if you don’t
meet their standard then they will feel
disgusted.
In the scene where Barbie and Ken go into
the real world, they are being harassed and
discriminated against by the people. It
symbolizes that if you are different from
them they will judge you without knowing
anything.
Conflict: Moral Lesson:

Ken discovers the patriarchy and feels Girls can do anything, and the Barbie movie
accepted, returning to Barbie land. Barbie finds shows us that girls can do whatever they want
her human girl, Sasha, but is condemned for and be whoever they want. Each individual has
glorifying bimbo culture and unhealthy life her own story and a unique passion, just like
goals. The Mattel CEO orders Barbie's every person in the world. And the best part is
deportation to Barbie land, where she escapes. that they all fearlessly cheer each other on.
Sasha and Gloria help her escape, and they Barbie inspires girls to take adventure into their
return to Barbie land. They find Ken has own hands, be curious, and never stop
overthrown the system, enslaving Barbie’s and discovering new things. It proves that girl-
planning to enshrine their new patriarchy in the centered stories with strong female leads need to
Barbie land constitution. Barbie sinks into be heard and that girls’ voices matter. The
depression. movie shows that striving for perfection can be
exhausting and can lead to failure since it is
Point of View: unachievable. She realizes that a perfect life
may not be what she wants. In the same way
The movie is a first-, second-, and third- that Barbie's friend accepts that he is "enough,"
person point of view. For the reason that there is we ought to let go of artificial perfectionism and
a narrator, the protagonist relays their appreciate our flaws as well as our greatest
experiences, and it addresses the viewer. efforts. Barbie the movie presents a culture in
which kindness, friendship, and self-
Atmosphere: actualization empower women. In the movie, it
also teaches us that the world of reality is scary,
While we are watching the movie Barbie, and we must have the courage to stand on our
we feel happy because some parts of the movie
own. We must remember that we have the
show the empowerment of women and how they
support each other in achieving anything, but power to choose our path, no matter what other
we feel sadder about the movie because it felt people say.
like it shone a blinding light on the struggles of
womanhood. In particular, the scene where
Barbie enters the 'real world' and is objectified
and watched really resonated with us. We've
experienced this feeling of being watched and
judged since we were old enough to walk, and
to see it depicted so honestly and accurately on
screen was powerful. The movie showed the
experience as it is, with people who deserve an
equal human experience being degraded and
treated as less. It's incredibly painful to watch
because it's something we've experienced
firsthand. The enlightenment ending was
beautiful, but painful to know that all we can
hope for is to be 'human' and that there's no real
happy ending; it's the reality we live in, and it's
not covered in sparkles as we had presumed the
movie would make it.

Theme:

The theme of the movie “Barbie” is about

gender equity, empowerment, unity and self
acceptance.

Film Approach:

The film approach presented in the movie

“Barbie” is Feminism. It is portrayed in the
movie that women are empowered. It also
shows the patriarchy of how men are superior
and women are inferior, and gender equality or
gender issues are shown in the movie.
Film Review:

The "Barbie" movie was made available to audiences
everywhere, allowing them to see "Barbie Land" for the first
time. Many well-known Hollywood actors appear in the
movie, including Margot Robbie as the stereotypical Barbie,
Ryan Gosling as the stereotypical Ken, America Ferrera as
Gloria, Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha, and Will Ferrell as the
CEO of Mattel. The film, which was written and directed by
Greta Gerwig, follows Robbie as Barbie on a journey into the
real world after her reality is turned on its head and things are
no longer as wonderful and pink. Viewers watch her as she
learns what it is to be human in a society where men rule and
women are not the center of everything. The ugly truths of
patriarchy are dealt with by Barbie. "Barbie" portrays a
perspective we’ve rarely ever seen on the big screen, and we
think it's engaging, nostalgic, and melancholy.
Overall, we would suggest this film to any guy or woman
we know, but we believe the most essential thing a viewer can
do is approach the film with an open mind and heart. The film
is an emotional roller coaster for us. Grewig, in our opinion,
has developed a lovely video that will hopefully have a great
influence on future generations. This film made us consider
not only what we want in life for ourselves, but also what we
desire in a potential relationship. The message of the film,
"It's Barbie, and it's Ken," which highlights the significance of
both being able to stand alone, is what rapidly elevated the
picture to one of our favorite movies of all time.

The setting and soundtrack almost immediately transported

us back to our youth as viewers first enter the world of Barbie,
where everything is pink and fanciful. Barbie floats from
location to location, the "Dream House" lacks running water,
and the food is inedible which really brought home the point
that Barbie Land is an imaginary place. The Barbie movie was
very different from what we had anticipated, but despite the
lack of animation, we believe that this is what made it stand
out from the other Barbie movies.

Although the film is amusing, we believe Gerwig didn't

hesitate from addressing some very difficult and true thoughts
and themes that many women around the world have
experienced. Robbie's Barbie expresses her uncontrollable
thoughts of death not even ten minutes into the film. The next
day, there were changes to Barbie. Barbie travels to the
human world to look find the person who is playing with her.
Humans who play with Barbie’s in real life unintentionally
control the dolls in Barbie Land. Barbie believes the human is
causing her to have these miserable thoughts and wishes to
make things right in both their minds. As the film progresses,
we watch Barbie deal with the clear sexualization that women
suffer, as well as anxiety and sadness. It was reassuring to see
that, despite being a fictional character, Barbie was not
immune to the devastating realities that life throws at us all
from time to time. Meanwhile, Ken discovers patriarchy and
intends to bring it to Barbie Land.

We believe the film captures the premise of demonstrating

that discrimination and patriarchy do not function in any
system by reversing the roles that men are accustomed to
playing in society and giving them to the Barbie’s while the
Kens act as basically arm candy. When the roles in Barbie
Land are reversed from their original form, the scene becomes
gloomy. Barbie’s who were formerly doctors, presidents, and
writers are now subordinate to Ken, attending to his every
desire. After everything has been restored to normal life, there
are two heartbreaking speeches that brought us to tears.
 Stereotypical Barbie and her fellow Barbie’s live in a
matriarchal society in Barbie land, where they pursue careers
while the Ken dolls relax on the beach. During a dance party,
Stereotypical Barbie becomes preoccupied with her own
mortality. The next day, she experiences depression and
physical changes. Weird Barbie, a local outcast, offers her
advice, revealing that everyone in Barbie land is, in fact, a toy.
Stereotypical Barbie must venture into the real world to find
her owner in order to overcome her mysterious affliction.
While en route to Los Angeles, Stereotypical Barbie is joined
by a Ken who has unreciprocated feelings for her. Upon their
arrival at Venice Beach through a portal, their misadventures
attract the attention of the CEO of Mattel, who orders their
apprehension. Stereotypical Barbie eventually manages to find
her owner, a teenage girl named Sasha. Initially, Sasha and
her friends make fun of Barbie, but they later learn that
Sasha's mother, Gloria, who works at Mattel, is the underlying
cause of Barbie's existential crisis. During her midlife crisis,
Gloria had played with Sasha's Barbie toys, inadvertently
transferring her own worries to Stereotypical Barbie. Just as
Stereotypical Barbie is on the brink of being captured by
Mattel's CEO and his associates, Gloria and Sasha intervene,
and together, they return to Barbie land. Meanwhile, Ken
becomes aware of the patriarchal system in the United States
and discovers that men hold dominant positions in society.
Upon returning to Barbie land, he persuades the other Ken
dolls to rise up and establish their own male-dominated
hierarchy. This results in the Barbie’s feeling disheartened and
being quickly relegated to subservient roles as maids,
housewives, and girlfriends. Stereotypical Barbie experiences
depression due to these changes. With the support and
encouragement of individuals like Sasha, Gloria, Weird
Barbie, Allan, and various other abandoned Barbie toy lines,
the Barbie’s gather the motivation to rebel against the Ken’s
and reclaim control over Barbie land. This leads to a conflict
among the Ken’s on the Barbie land beach. After a truce is
reached, the Barbie’s swiftly regain authority over their
society, causing Ken to emotionally break down. In the end,
both Stereotypical Barbie and Ken apologize to each other.
Stereotypical Barbie acknowledges her part in Ken's rebellion,
stemming from her rejection of his romantic advances. She
emphasizes to Ken that, even though she doesn't have
romantic feelings for him, he still has the power to shape his
own identity. Stereotypical Barbie faces another crisis
concerning her future role and meets once more with the CEO
of Mattel. However, their meeting is interrupted by Ruth
Handler. Ruth shares the origins of Barbie and how she has
been a source of inspiration for women over the years,
extending beyond her initial creation. This deeply touches
Stereotypical Barbie, prompting her to request that Ruth
transforms her into a human. In a realization, she comes to
understand that she is already a human. Subsequently, Sasha,
Gloria, and Gloria's husband accompany Stereotypical Barbie,
who now goes by the name Barbara Roberts, to a gynecologist
for her first medical appointment.
Introduction:
Stereotypical Barbie, who experiences a full
on existential crisis and embarks on a journey of
self discovery. Barbie and Ken are having the
time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly
perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when
they get a chance to go to the real world, they
soon discover the joys and perils of living
among humans.
Rising Action:
This part of the movie highlights the
imperfections that every individual
possesses. Barbie begins to experience
some weird changes on her. Noticing some
physical changes, like bad breath, some
unwanted flesh of physical appearance and
flat feet. What happened totally make her
day gone wrong. Due to the changes that
she had experience and curiosity she seek
advice to the Weird Barbie to overcome the
mysterious changes on her body. And to
solve it she must travel to the human world
or real world in order to understand herself
and discover her true purpose.
Climax:
The thrilling part of the movie is that
when Barbie was already in the real world
together with Ken, finding her owner that
would help her to clear and understand the
weird changes happened onto her. Barbie
discovered a lot of things that exists in the
real world. She experienced harassment,
like body shaming, without her knowing
that she was being harassed. She thinks that
the real world and Barbie world are the
same, that just like in Barbie land she can
do and wear anything freely, without
judgment. She started to felt and show
some emotions that only human had the
ability to. The Mattel (company) know that
Barbie was in the real world, they started to
find and planned to get the real Barbie.
Because of the troubles happened during at
the Mattel establishment Barbie and her
owner Gloria together with her daughter
Sasha meet. Gloria help Barbie to get away
to the guys whom chasing her.
Falling Action:
In the Barbie film movie, the Barbie
land been ruled by ken and then Barbie
losing hope of getting back the peace and
beauty that she kept in Barbie land. The
Barbie's had been brainwashed by the bad
ken's but with the help of Gloria and her
plans, the Barbie's are back to their senses
and not hypnotized to the bad ken's
anymore. They all back to reality that the
Barbie Land is a Barbie Land and not
Kendom’s, that the Barbie World must be
ruled by the Barbie’s and not Ken's. With
the help of Gloria’s speech and with her
daughter, the Barbie's planned to dominate
the Barbie Land again.
Resolution:
The Barbie's overcome their
challenges. They fight against the bad
Ken's. The Barbie's are cooperating and
work together, saving their Barbie land to
the bad Ken intentions. With the help of
Gloria and her daughter Sasha their plan
successfully work and they won the battle
against the Ken's. Barbie and her friends
achieve their goals. They celebrate their
victory to getting back the Barbie land as
their home, the world that represents
beauty and peace, were all of them have the
positive point of view of life. The Barbie
land had taken back by the Barbie's and
ruled by the Barbie. Ken, disappointed in
being just an accessory to Barbie, the two
apologizes for each other’s mistakes.
President Barbie makes a friendly deal with
Mattel CEO, agreeing to equality for Kens
and other discontinued toys. The Ken's
were sorry for what happened, realizing
that what they did to the Barbie's was
totally wrong, that they just want to
dominate their abilities as a man, to live in
the world were men can be on themselves
freely, without being ruled by the
women’s.
Settings:
 Barbie land
 Venice Beach Skate Park in
Los Angeles, California
 Warner Bros. Studios, Leaves
den in England • Real World
Symbolism:
In Barbie we see a group of silent little
girls playing with anonymous dolls without
much joy. Barbie appears in the prehistoric
world as an alien creature (or a glimpse of
modernity). By introducing the concept of
a doll that can be a woman's model, rather
than representing infants in need of a
mother, the children enter a new stage of
their development, leapfrogging directly
into a more mature dimension.
In the scene where the Kens break into
Barbie Land, the Barbie’s stand in for the
empowerment of women because they
support one another and are capable of
achieving anything. Some supporters
contend that Barbie inspires girls to pursue
their goals and aspirations in a variety of
careers by serving as a positive role model.
By including dolls of various races,
ethnicities, abilities, shapes, and sizes, they
also emphasize how Barbie has developed
over time to reflect the inclusivity and
diversity of contemporary society. Barbie
also serves as a symbol for the complexity
of femininity and the variety of roles that
women can fill in society.
In the scene where Ken saw the different
classes, clothes, and roles of men in
society, it symbolizes that men can rule the
world, and their different classes reflect
who they are.
In the scene where Sasha and her friends
condemn Barbie and one of her friends said
that she likes Barbie. Then Sasha feels
disapprove about it. It symbolizes that if
you have other perspective then you will
not be part from the group.
In the scene where Barbie has her arched
feet going flat. It symbolizes that if you
don’t meet their standard then they will
feel disgusted.
 In the scene where Barbie and Ken go
into the real world, they are being
harassed and discriminated against by
the people. It symbolizes that if you are
different from them they will judge you
without knowing anything.
Conflict:
Ken discovers the patriarchy and feels
accepted, returning to Barbie land. Barbie
finds her human girl, Sasha, but is
condemned for glorifying bimbo culture
and unhealthy life goals. The Mattel CEO
orders Barbie's deportation to Barbie land,
where she escapes. Sasha and Gloria help
her escape, and they return to Barbie land.
They find Ken has overthrown the system,
enslaving Barbie’s and planning to
enshrine their new patriarchy in the Barbie
land constitution. Barbie sinks into
depression.
Point of View:
The movie is a first-, second-, and
third-person point of view. For the reason
that there is a narrator, the protagonist
relays their experiences, and it addresses
the viewer.
Atmosphere:
While we are watching the movie
Barbie, we feel happy because some parts
of the movie show the empowerment of
women and how they support each other in
achieving anything, but we feel sadder
about the movie because it felt like it shone
a blinding light on the struggles of
womanhood. In particular, the scene where
Barbie enters the 'real world' and is
objectified and watched really resonated
with us. We've experienced this feeling of
being watched and judged since we were
old enough to walk, and to see it depicted
so honestly and accurately on screen was
powerful. The movie showed the
experience as it is, with people who
deserve an equal human experience being
degraded and treated as less. It's incredibly
painful to watch because it's something
we've experienced firsthand. The
enlightenment ending was beautiful, but
painful to know that all we can hope for is
to be 'human' and that there's no real happy
ending; it's the reality we live in, and it's
not covered in sparkles as we had
presumed the movie would make it.
Theme:
The theme of the movie “Barbie” is
about gender equity, empowerment, unity
and self acceptance.
Film Approach:
The film approach presented in the
movie “Barbie” is Feminism. It is
portrayed in the movie that women are
empowered. It also shows the patriarchy of
how men are superior and women are
inferior, and gender equality or gender
issues are shown in the movie.
Moral Lesson:
Girls can do anything, and the Barbie
movie shows us that girls can do whatever
they want and be whoever they want. Each
individual has her own story and a unique
passion, just like every person in the world.
And the best part is that they all fearlessly
cheer each other on. Barbie inspires girls to
take adventure into their own hands, be
curious, and never stop discovering new
things. It proves that girl-centered stories
with strong female leads need to be heard
and that girls’ voices matter. The movie
shows that striving for perfection can be
exhausting and can lead to failure since it is
unachievable. She realizes that a perfect
life may not be what she wants. In the same
way that Barbie's friend accepts that he is
"enough," we ought to let go of artificial
perfectionism and appreciate our flaws as
well as our greatest efforts. Barbie the
movie presents a culture in which kindness,
friendship, and self-actualization empower
women. In the movie, it also teaches us that
the world of reality is scary, and we must
have the courage to stand on our own. We
must remember that we have the power to
choose our path, no matter what other
people say.
Film Review:
The "Barbie" movie was made available to
audiences everywhere, allowing them to see "Barbie
Land" for the first time. Many well-known Hollywood
actors appear in the movie, including Margot Robbie as
the stereotypical Barbie, Ryan Gosling as the
stereotypical Ken, America Ferrera as Gloria, Ariana
Greenblatt as Sasha, and Will Ferrell as the CEO of
Mattel. The film, which was written and directed by
Greta Gerwig, follows Robbie as Barbie on a journey
into the real world after her reality is turned on its head
and things are no longer as wonderful and pink.
Viewers watch her as she learns what it is to be human
in a society where men rule and women are not the
center of everything. The ugly truths of patriarchy are
dealt with by Barbie. "Barbie" portrays a perspective
we’ve rarely ever seen on the big screen, and we think
it's engaging, nostalgic, and melancholy.
The setting and soundtrack almost immediately
transported us back to our youth as viewers first enter
the world of Barbie, where everything is pink and
fanciful. Barbie floats from location to location, the
"Dream House" lacks running water, and the food is
inedible which really brought home the point that
Barbie Land is an imaginary place. The Barbie movie
was very different from what we had anticipated, but
despite the lack of animation, we believe that this is
what made it stand out from the other Barbie movies.
Although the film is amusing, we believe Gerwig
didn't hesitate from addressing some very difficult and
true thoughts and themes that many women around the
world have experienced. Robbie's Barbie expresses her
uncontrollable thoughts of death not even ten minutes
into the film. The next day there were changes to
Barbie. Barbie travels to the human world to look find
the person who is playing with her. Humans who play
with Barbie’s in real life unintentionally control the
dolls in Barbie Land. Barbie believes the human is
causing her to have these miserable thoughts and wishes
to make things right in both their minds. As the film
progresses, we watch Barbie deal with the clear
sexualization that women suffer, as well as anxiety and
sadness. It was reassuring to see that, despite being a
fictional character, Barbie was not immune to the
devastating realities that life throws at us all from time
to time. Meanwhile, Ken discovers patriarchy and
intends to bring it to Barbie Land.
 We believe the film captures the premise of
demonstrating that discrimination and patriarchy do not
function in any system by reversing the roles that men
are accustomed to playing in society and giving them to
the Barbie’s while the Kens act as basically arm candy.
When the roles in Barbie Land are reversed from their
original form, the scene becomes gloomy. Barbie’s who
were formerly doctors, presidents, and writers are now
subordinate to Ken, attending to his every desire. After
everything has been restored to normal life, there are
two heartbreaking speeches that brought us to tears.

Overall, we would suggest this film to any guy or

woman we know, but we believe the most essential
thing a viewer can do is approach the film with an open
mind and heart. The film is an emotional roller coaster
for us. Grewig, in our opinion, has developed a lovely
video that will hopefully have a great influence on
future generations. This film made us consider not only
what we want in life for ourselves, but also what we
desire in a potential relationship. The message of the
film, "It's Barbie, and it's Ken," which highlights the
significance of both being able to stand alone, is what
rapidly elevated the picture to one of our favorite
movies of all time.