“Barbie” spoilers follow.To date, Greta Gerwig has directed three films she has also written or co-written.
Each has a monologue, a scene, or a sentiment that lays out, in plain, often hard language, that being a woman is difficult in the modern world.
To cite Gerwig’s “Little Women,” Jo (Saoirse Ronan) bemoans the fact that women are often seen as mere receptacles for love when they are, in fact, so much more.
“Women,” she says, “they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts.
[…] I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for.
I’m so sick of it.” The trend continued with Gerwig’s latest film “Barbie,” based on the Mattel toy and currently raking in hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office.
“Barbie” is an Adam & Eve story wherein Barbie (Margot Robbie) travels from the safe,…
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