In Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster “Barbie,” the title character (Margot Robbie) finds that she is experiencing phenomena that no Barbie has ever experienced before.
While dancing with her friends, she has idle thoughts of her own mortality.
The next morning, her fake food is spoiled and her fake shower is cold.
Most notably, her feet — ordinarily sculpted into a high-heels-ready point — now walk flat on the ground.
There is only one Barbie in Barbieland that might know what is happening: Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon), an outcast who lives on the edge of town. It becomes clear that all the Barbies in Barbieland are, in fact, the Platonic ideals of the dolls being played with by little girls back in the real world.
Weird Barbie, with her bizarre facial tattoos and wildly trimmed hair, is clearly the Barbie that has been played with too roughly.
A little girl has…
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