Hi folks, I thought we would talk about the Barbie movie. Now before we begin, I'm going to assume a few things.

One that you have seen the Barbie movie. I will be talking about the plot in detail,

but of course there will be massive spoilers in this, so you haven't you don't want it spoiled go and watch it for watching this

But secondly I'm going to assume your

Someone like me who was never invested in Barbie doesn't really care about Barbie and so is approaching this from the perspective of an outsider who is relatively disinterested in the subject.

For me, Barbies are just for girls, right?

And I was playing with Action Man,

they were playing with Barbie, that's fine,

never the twain would meet and so I'm not an expert on Barbie itself

although I've done a lot of research for this video so if you're an expert in

Barbie do leave me a comment and tell me if I've got something wrong but what

I'll be focusing on is a textual analysis of the film so I'm actually going to try and

avoid talking about a lot of the discussion that's gone around the film. I may do a follow-up perhaps with someone else to discuss that because that is interesting in and of itself.

But what I thought was most fascinating about the Barbie film is how there seemed to be themes embedded in the film.

It's a deeply political film though themes embedded in it that seem to have been missed by most people.

I've not seen anyone make the sort of comparisons and analysis

that I'm about to make.

And I think actually it's not what people thought it was. I think actually it might not even be what the

author of the film Greta Gowery thought it was and I don't know how much of this is conscious

or unconscious. So with that said here's a brief synopsis.

Everything is perfect in the matriarchal paradise that is Barbie lap until one day,

stereotypical Barbie begins getting intrusive thoughts of death.

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