Film Review: Barbie
So, a film about the most iconic (female) doll of all time, with decades worth of changes, faces, clothes and identities, roles, occupations and people are surprised with the overall message of feminism that shines through every moment? Let's be clear from the get-go: Barbie celebrates every woman, every identity and our identities are intrinsically linked to our overall power (or lack thereof) as women overall. For every step that we've taken, every day, some feel compelled to take us a few hundred steps back. To use a technical term, we have been quite literally biblically screwed since the start - it was Eve who tempted man and we've been stuck paying the price for it ever since. And in Barbie - which the beautiful Helen Mirren voiceover makes clear from the first frame, has been a reflection of ourselves since her arrival and the journey Barbie has been on reflects how women have changed over the decades, what power has changed for us and by us. Yes, feminism is a k