The far right is constantly warning that if you go woke, you’ll go broke. But when it comes to the new Barbie movie, they couldn’t be more wrong.
Barbie, which follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they leave Barbie Land to explore the real world, earned a whopping $162 million in its opening weekend, Variety reported Monday. This is the biggest opening weekend of the year, and the biggest opening weekend for a female director ever.
The film had already made $22.3 million at the domestic box office from Thursday previews, the biggest preview haul of the summer. It blew the previous record of $17.5 million (made by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May) out of the water.
Is it really a feminist message though?
Ken is friendzoned at the beginning and doesn’t really want to be just an accessory. He reacts toxically, but it’s shown in reaction to being shut out. “Where do all the Ken’s live?” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oh well! Back to the dream house!
By the end, the Kenergy is shown as being just as negative as the Barbie Dreamworld, but nothing is really done to correct either one.
I had kind of hoped that the dysfunctional Matteliverse, which was just as fantastical as the Barbie and Ken worlds had become that way because the CEO was an escaped Ken from years back, but they didn’t go that way.
I mean… it is in a superficial way. Since i already wrote about it im just gona link it to yah. Spoiler alert thought.