#Inspireme crate movie

Can Issa Rae actually be our president? Women run everything in Barbie Land, and they’re free, happy, and confident. Can you fucking imagine?! There’s a Black woman president and it’s Issa Rae. The clothes, the sets, the dream houses, the pools, and the utopias, we sometimes wish we inhabited.

#Inspireme crate movie

Gerwig smuggles a whole lot of feminist rage into a movie so stylized and smart, I almost drooled a few times.

Nonbinary Barbies, gay and lesbian Barbies, bi/pan Barbies, Barbie and her best non-Barbie friend, stereotypical Barbies, Black and brown Barbies, Latinx Barbies, trans Barbies, goth Barbies, Asian Barbies, boy and men Barbies, literally all the Barbies you could dream of and some you couldn’t even imagine yet. I missed the beginning of the movie because I was buying popcorn and candy for teens with a nearly maxed-out credit card, and staring at all of the cosplay Barbies streaming into the theater. She’s also smoking hot, confident, and has many careers, some boss bitch, some not.

She’s just one tiny, tiny piece of that whole mess. She can also make you feel bad about your body, but she’s not alone in this enterprise. It’s an idea machine, wrapped in a gorgeous package-and someday I hope to create something so sneakily radical and fun.īarbie can make you happy, horny, and joyous. She can deployed for the MAN, or for the kinds of radical play only the kids engaging in it can ever fully explain (I will do that later for kid Carley), and she can made to inhabit a radically feminist movie that will make a ton of money for Mattel, and probably not change very much in the day to day political lives of girls and women in this country. I imagined, as most cultural critics and American Studies peeps who went to graduate school in the late 90s and early aughts and study mass market consumer good for girls, that the whole endeavor would be complicated.īarbie, like Seventeen magazine, make-up, Sweet Valley High, Taylor Swift songs, Brat dolls, Legos, Roblox, (insert your cultural fetish object here please) is context-dependent, child-specific, and ever-changing. I knew I would love Margot Robbie because I always do. I was pretty sure Greta Gerwig would do the best possible job she could within the confines of a marketing ploy.

I was prepared to like the Barbie movie, but not love it.