%% %% # 🎞 Gerwig 2023, Barbie ### Selections - **The Dawn of Woman** (1:00-4:00): Parodies the traditional evolutionary story of gender (with a direct homage to Kubrick) through a ""feminist"" retelling. - **Ken Meets the Patriarchy** (30:00-31:30 / 41:40-43:00 / 57:00-59:45): Ken discovers a new gender system organized around the superiority of men (and horses?), but is confounded by its camouflaged operation. - **Barbie Deprogramming** (1:12:00/-1:17:00): Matel employee Gloria visits the patriachalized Barbie Land and leads the brainwashed dolls in a consciousness raising exercise that breaks through their false consciousness. ### Info Gerwig 2023, Barbie - **Summary**: Barbie 2023 is a comedy movie where Barbie, played by Margot Robbie, leaves her perfect world of Barbieland to explore the real world, facing human emotions, existential questions, and the patriarchy. The movie parodies the stereotypes and expectations of the Barbie franchise​[](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Barbie2023#:~:text=Barbie%202023%20is%20a%20movie,expectations%20of%20the%20Barbie%20franchise)​. - **Director**: Greta Gerwig - **Genre**: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy - **IMDB**: [Link](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268/)