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Greta Gerwig: Makes a movie to empower women
Men: "I am Kenough"
Greta Gerwig: ๐
That's why I like the movie so much, it doesn't empower women by simply putting down men. It felt empowering for both sides I thought, no one should be judged by the standards of their gender.
I felt like the movie started in one direction and was putting down men. Not necessarily in a wrong way (a lot of it was a critique of patriarchy which is both true and necessary for a feminist movie.) But halfway through writing the movie they realized that an inevitable conclusion to the whole message of the movie was that the Kens were also victims of the system and they needed a positive plot arc. The movie tries to do it, but unlike Barbie the Kens don't really do anything to earn their progression and it feels shoehorned in because they wrote themselves into a corner.
It also really enforces the whole binary gender role thing which is not a great message. I'm a straight cis dude but I shouldn't be locked into all the straight cis dude tropes, and neither should anyone else be wholly defined by their gender identity and sexual orientation.
Yeah that's a pretty prominent criticism I've heard. The movie is stuck somewhere between 2nd and 3rd wave feminism and tries to grasp at more modern ideas but framing it through Barbie makes it very difficult.
I don't blame them though, for a full blown Hollywood movie with that size budget it's impressive they got what they had.