"Barbie", which makes women watch cool, is it really backstabbing men?

All boys who take the initiative to go to the theater to watch "Barbie" and stay emotionally stable deserve a little red flower!

I am the topic initiator of this issue of "Tea After Dinner Talk", Miss Bovary, today's topic is, "Barbie", which makes women watch cool, is it really backstabbing men?

Let's discuss it in the comment area!

From last weekend until now, a pink trend has swept the cinema. Yes, it is a rare film with a female perspective - "Barbie".

As of noon on July 24, the box office of "Barbie" in China has exceeded 70 million yuan, and it has maintained a good trend of continuing to rise. Although it is not the top of the theatrical film list, its reputation is surprisingly good, and the Douban score is now as high as 8.6 points.

The schedule is limited, but the full attendance is extremely high, and many people even dress themselves up to watch the movie, as if they are performing a special ceremony to celebrate some small and grand festival.

There is no other reason, the main thing is that films with a purely female perspective are too scarce, "Barbie" just fills this gap, female directors and screenwriters and actresses, with playful and gentle brushstrokes poke through the cruelty of the world to women, depicting what is equality and happiness, there is a sigh between the brilliance, and there is deep meaning in the humor.

It is worth spending just 114 minutes isolating the power war, shielding superheroes, receiving a feminist baptism, and finding an opportunity to discover yourself, I am afraid that there will be no such shop in this village.

But of course, not everyone feels that way.

More interesting than the film itself is the "gender imbalance" in the number of moviegoers and the polarization of word of mouth after the screening.

The audience of "Barbie" is mainly female, as far as the author watched, looking up, there are no more than five male students mixed in, and the female audience is "different", sisters, aunts, students and sisters, the hall is like a temporary daughter country, just like Barbieland in the film.

There is no lack of five-star praise in the Douban evaluation, but it is also mixed with some righteous and unexplained one-star - "Who is the man who watches this!" "I didn't look at it, just hit a star and bite me."

Some people even regard movies like "Barbie" as a soft aggression of Western culture, and thus rise to the importance of subjectivity and cultural self-confidence of great power culture...

The point is that there can be a follow-up below - "What you have to accumulate by ancestors, modern ones are completely incompetent." ”

What's and what?

First of all, thinking about feminism and promoting equal rights regardless of national boundaries is the inevitable development of modern civilization, without borders, there may be occasional radicalization, but it does not mean that it is old and glorious and correct to follow the old ways.

Secondly, if you really watch it, you will find that "Barbie" is also gentle and kind enough, right? Many people still feel that the strength is not enough.

The so-called confrontation between men and women is more due to some people's preconceived self-imagination, and is not what the film wants to convey and emphasize.

The real attack is on patriarchy, not on all men of the same sex. Assuming that patriarchy is a virus, virus carriers may be used as a model for research to find problems and seek solutions, but in any case, it is the virus itself that needs to be eliminated, not the individual infected with the virus.

So why rush to coexist with the old system, martyrdom?

"Barbie" is indeed a cool film for women, but the depth of exploration of male gender is no less than that of women. The most important female character in the film is Ken, which is the collective name of all men in Barbie Paradise, and Ken exists to set Barbie off. Among them, "Ken No. 1" of the classic Barbie group CP is the male protagonist with the most scenes, and his series of experiences vividly show that no one is absolutely good and bad, strong and weak, women are a situation, and men are also a situation.

In the beginning, in Barbie Land, Ken and other men were absolute marginal characters, without outstanding talent, full speech, and spacious mansions, revolving around Barbie was their only daily life, and being there as Barbie's flanger seemed to be their only value.

Obviously, this is completely a sexual transition of the real world - "What do men do so hard, dressing up beautifully to make your woman happy is the greatest achievement of your life." ”

This is the ultimate fantasy created by scheming consumerism, where the omnipotent Barbie is at the heart of everything and men are nothing more than insignificant vassals.

Later, Barbie brought Ken to the real world, which meant that the "two products" fled en masse, but the company's boss just wanted to wait to get Barbie back in the box after learning about it, and didn't care about what big trouble Ken would make.

Because consumers don't care.

Since his birth, his destiny has been to stand on the sidelines and applaud Barbie, the second "second sex" in this plastic utopia. It's an unfair setting, not that he's born useless.

At the same time, it is also a more tangible way to "put yourself in women's shoes" than wearing high heels and using equipment to feel the pain of childbirth.

In the second stage, Ken came to the real world, saw men in suits and leather shoes in important positions, saw men in gyms lifting iron and training muscles, he suddenly "awakened his blood", and smelled the possibility and rationality of "serfs turning over and singing" in this world dominated by men.

Then he went to look for a job confidently, with a simple and crude reason - "I have no education or certificate, but I am a man." Undeterred by the rejection, he turned around and returned to Barbie Paradise, intending to turn it into a patriarchal testing ground and do something groundbreaking.

From being a foil to dominating, Ken seems to be a man who has undergone role-playing and returned to the "right track", he has accepted the discipline of patriarchy and has become a so-called "real man" who believes in solipsism and masculinity.

Women are the result of being shaped, and men, why not?

This seems like a setting that is more favorable to him, but it is not.

In the third stage, Ken, who was cloaked in mink, turned Barbie Land upside down with patriarchy. Under his inspiration, Ken, who used to stand on the sidelines, burst into manhood, and all of them were top guns that ruled the world, but female presidents, female writers, and female physicists were brainwashed into well-behaved and beautiful beer salesmen, automatically reduced to vassals, and gave up their former right to speak.

But in fact, in this process, what are the women who are seduced and paralyzed by patriarchy?

Ken seems to have won, but he just puts on a new shackle.

Later, Barbie is awakened and unites to launch an uprising, taking advantage of Ken's self-loss. This is also the place where the whole film laughs the most, they play weak, stupid, confused, and infatuated little fans, so that the men's vanity and sense of existence are greatly satisfied, making them feel that "I can be at your mercy" and "from now on you will be subservient to me".

Then, at the peak of their happiness, Barbie turn and run to the other Kens, causing them to fall into a spiral of loss-jealousy-competitiveness in an instant, in an attempt to prove their unique masculinity and masculinity through gladiatorial fighting. The infighting between Ken gave Barbie the opportunity to regain power.

It can be seen that the patriarchy that dazzles Ken only provides a single source of value, allowing them to put on the armor of teeth and claws on the one hand, and give birth to a narrow and weak core on the other, which is easily swayed by the eyes of others and momentary gains and losses.

Men are a situation, and not necessarily a good one.

After the success of the "uprising", Barbie did not punish Ken in any way, and comforted him with special kindness, encouraging him to find himself, stop being Ken around Baibie, and stop being a macho puppet, but become a new self.

What a merciful feminism! All brought out the chicken soup for the soul, why are there still people who put it there to break the defense?

The core of feminism has never been to engage in opposition, but to break through the shackles of the old system, so that all individuals, including men and women, can better understand themselves and become themselves in a new dimension, no longer committed to becoming a standard product embedded in a certain mold, and do not hesitate to cut off excess flesh and blood in order to be "qualified".

If women are no longer anxious about their appearance, and men are no longer ashamed of everything that is very "motherly", everyone can move in and out freely, and do not always be in the anxiety of "if I don't do this, I am not a real man/good woman", isn't it a beautiful vision that others can easily fall into their own comfort?

The quarrels on the Internet are endless, but the theme of the quarrel has been changing, and today's debate over Barbie will soon be covered by new hot spots, and only the seeds that really penetrate the heart can not be drowned, and in time, take root and sprout, inadvertently let its owner be updated and run to a broader life. Just like at the end, Barbie decides to leave paradise and become a real woman with a womb and more initiative.

Many people say that "Disappearing Her" and "Barbie" are the same test stones for gender relations, and through watching the movie, you can immediately determine whether the other party is the right person.

I don't think it's necessary, "Disappearing Her" is adapted from a true story, it is always an individual case, the warning effect should be greater than the separative effect, and sometimes the evil of human nature is stimulated in constant doubts;

As for "Barbie", it is serious but funny, ironic but gentle, it wisely brings out the increasingly hidden patriarchy under modern civilization, but does not put the "patriarchal infected" to death, because as long as you are willing to awaken, there will always be a good time in the future. This is an enlightenment lesson to remove the lesion and rush to happiness, and consensus is more important than mutual suspicion.

So, how can you say that if it's a man, don't watch it? Men are naturally sadistic and immune to freedom and happiness?

Surely not! Of course, you can watch it!

It is especially recommended here that the confident men led by Yang Yang and Zhang Han look at it, maybe you can cut the "feeling too good about yourself" disease from Ken's "counterattack and loss of momentum", and deeply perceive that not all girls will be intoxicated when you play the piano and sing.

But it may also have the opposite effect, if you don't want to try pink, feel that you must be handsome in pink, and then continue to chew the eyes of the majority of audience friends with exponentially greasy...

Well, put down the helper plot, who wants to watch whom, so you'll be the girl, or boy, who goes into theater to watch Barbie?