Barbie Spoilers!

Barbie spoilers!

I want to move to Barbieland so bad. I know the movie is about the fact that sorrow and change are unavoidable, and how we have to construct meaning out of a life of betrayal and mini-fridges and visits to the gyno. I know that it’s about the fact that our time is meaningful because it is limited. But I can’t help it: I want to live in a plastic dream house and watch Simu Liu do backflips.

I love that we all just decided that jeans match everything. Like, they’re literally blue pants. What are you wearing today? T-shirt? Well you’re gonna want the blue pants. Multicolor blouse? Blue pants. Black sweater? Blue pants. Neon yellow crop top? You guessed it: BLUE PANTS.

Listen, you know the History Channel show “The Food That Built America”? Imagine being one of the actors in the re-enactments and having a director tell you to really play up the Very Serious Drama of fucking, idk, Subway, BUT without creating ANY homoerotic tension with your business partner. Imagine.

I WILL WAIT FOR YOU TIL THE SUN TURNS INTO ASHES AND BOWS DOWN TO THE MOON I WILL WAIT FOR YOU

I’m thinking about the whole Blackheart changing to Boldheart thing and how Ballister sort of reflects the sort of goals of the overall story. (Idk if “goals” is the word I want, but I’m rolling with it.)

Blackheart is cynical and angry. He’s been personally betrayed, and because of this he has settled into his villain era. He’s honestly kind of comfortable there. But Boldheart is new to this game. He’s not angry, he’s confused and frightened and hiding.

What I’m saying is that Blackheart stands in for anger with nowhere to go but around and around. It takes Nimona to shift that stalemate into something productive (destructive?). And that’s fucking awesome. I love this graphic novel, do not trip about that.

Boldheart, however, is an instruction manual for shifting personal ideology. He needs Nimona to push him out from within the walls of the system that lied to him, into the world beyond. She helps him to see that the world is so much more complex (and more beautiful, and more cruel) than he knew.

I’m pointing this out I think because they do such different things for such different audiences. Blackheart is angry and cynical, and that’s important and in no way do I want to suggest that that’s a problem. (He has a right to his anger and so do you.) But what i want to say is that I think that Boldheart represents the hope that someone in the audience will see this (will hear Nimona say “easier for who?”) and understand.

How many times do I have to watch Sleepless in Seattle before I start to understand the romance part?