This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being discussed here wouldn’t exist.
This article also contains spoilers for “Barbie.”Greta Gerwig’s new film “Barbie,” based on the (in)famous Mattel-brand doll, begins in Barbieland, a pink, plastic, artificial world where all the women are Barbie and they’re all inspiring.
The president is Barbie, the Supreme Court is nine Barbies, Barbies run the businesses, and the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in literature was Barbie.
There are Kens in Barbieland as well, but they only exist to vie for the various Barbies’ attention.
Ken (Ryan Gosling) longs for Barbie (Margot Robbie).When Stereotypical Barbie has an existential crisis — in her innocent, artificial world, she thinks about death for the first time — the doll treks into the real world to find…
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