The Treasure of Barbie on the Day After

Lynn was disappointed with Barbie because she was expecting more gentle nostalgia. Erin was neutral. Belma had seen it before. Hamish hung in there.

I was blown away.

As everybody knows by now, I'm a metaphor freak. Everything about Barbie from beginning to end is a metaphor. Yeah with such a crowd of device, it gets clunky at times especially the Will Ferrel collsion with capitalism. Here are some of the topics that I saw addressed in a new and modern way: patriarchy, matriarchy, ascending feminism, staggering masculinity, gender identification, castration, choice, loneliness, depression, need, relationships, co-dependence, abandonment, existentialism, dread, war, mansplaining, male blaming, male and female bonding, capitalism, beer, change, gynecology, estrogen, testosterone, stereotyping, asexuality, fashion, blah blah blah blah blah.........

The next day Lynn, Erin, Hamish, Belma and I were taking a drive to Davidson. I was tempted to go on a mansplain, dadsplain, grampsplain,teachsplain, courtholding splain until I thought better of it having learned something from the movie that most "splains" only end up reinforcing the concepts that they are trying to illustrate through opposition if they are listened to at all.

Instead, I asked Hamish, the youg boy what he thought of the movie. I know that Belma thought that it was political. What did Hamish think.

This what he said:

"In the first part Barbie had everything and Ken had nothing. In the second part Ken had everything and Barbie had nothing. In the third part everybody had something."

I'll leave it right there.

See for yourself.