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Amala Ekpunobi

So I Watched Barbie…

Amala Ekpunobi

Amala Ekpunobi

Education

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

So I watched the new Barbie movie this weekend and oh boy, do I have thoughts. Did the movie stay true to Barbie’s original wholesome message that “girls can do anything,” or did we end up with two hours of woke feminist propaganda? Let’s get into it.


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0:00.0

Hi guys, it's Amla coming at you from a tree stump in the city of London.

0:04.4

And I've decided to film this video because I just wanted to watch the Barbie movie and it is

0:08.8

probably the weakest film of 2023. Let's talk about it.

0:12.4

Young Apollo with the Red Hat!

0:17.9

Guys, before we get into this video, please like and subscribe. I want as many people to find

0:21.6

this channel as possible so you know what to do. Now, yes, I had to come to you from this park

0:27.3

just to talk about the Barbie movie, which I just took time to see. I sat through it in its

0:31.5

entirety and I think it is the weakest film of 2023. Now, before we get into plot summary on this film,

0:37.0

I want you guys to remember the original message of Barbie that young girls and women can do anything

0:42.7

that they want. Barbie has thousands of different careers. She shows up in the world in a hundred

0:53.6

different ways and she's encouraging young girls to keep that mindset and always has.

0:58.0

Encourage that mindset within young women. By all reasonable markers, we would call the original

1:02.5

Barbie a feminist, at least a first or second-wave feminist. But there's been much debate about this film

1:08.0

in particular. Amy Schumer said that the original take of this film was not going to be feminist

1:12.3

enough. There's been much back and forth on this film. I actually, when I go out the other day,

1:16.3

like, is Bobby a feminist? I was like, well, she's actually like the level up from that. Because if you

1:21.6

look at Barbie land at the beginning, like, the Barbies are on top and the Kens are kind of

1:26.2

disregarded. So I was like, well, that's not equal. So whatever the opposite of misogynist is,

1:31.6

actually, Barbie's like, so towards the end, when they balance things out, then it might be feminist.

1:37.5

Greta Gerwig and Noah Bondback have written this version of Barbie that's now in theaters.

1:42.1

I think in a lot of other hands, this Barbie movie would remain surface level. But I knew Greta

1:48.3

was going to have a lot to say. And I knew she was going to kind of charge and hold us a lot of

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