This post contains spoilers for “Barbie.”During the final scene of “Barbie,” the titular iconic toy (Margot Robbie) sits in the back seat of a car with her new human family: Gloria (America Ferrera), Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt), and her Duolingo-loving husband (Ryan Piers Williams).
With her beaming smile and business casual outfit, I assumed she was going to a job interview — an important milestone that would mark her independence as a human woman.It certainly seems that way when Barbie triumphantly walks up to an office front desk and gives a more professional name, Barbara Handler, honoring the daughter of her creator Ruth Handler.
Then, writer/director Greta Gerwig wallops the audience with an ingenious final line: “I’m here to see my gynecologist.”Greta Gerwig elaborated on the “mystical” origins of this clever piece of dialogue in a recent interview with IndieWire:”I feel that line and that…
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