Haha, the Matchbox 20 song starts out "She said..."

Great, as always!   Make sure you watch it at AMC (& buy 🍿.) Did you recall that Robbie and Gosling were together in "The Big Short?"

I disagree with this. Why can't it be both? Dialectics and Deleuze offer us plenty of reasons to reveal how something can be itself and the opposite. But here there's not even something that deep going on. A film can be preachy and a clever marketing ploy. It's most visible in the Super Bowl or Pride Month. Yeah, it shows us preaching, but it *is* direct. I think that is made clear at the end.

The idea that Barbieland exists as in fantasy support of the real world seems similar to Baudrillard’s idea of  Disneyland existing as a simulacrum to make the world outside it appear as not a simulacrum (which I’m just realizing is pretty close to

I think we can attribute this type of critical, non-reflective response to the film to things like Cinema Sins- shows/podcasts expressly designed to point out the flaws in movies. This leads to the viewer thinking they are smarter than the movie so

It's an evocative reading of the song's relationship to Ken, but wouldn't the fact that the songwriter is talking about being in an abusive relationship (hence, "And I don't know if I've ever been really loved By a hand that's touched me") undercut that reading. Rather than the subtext being "I'm insecure so I'm going to over-exert my masculinity to make you feel small and raise myself up", the subtext becomes "I'm tired of being pushed around by you and being made to feel insignificant, so I'm going to push you around and show you how it feels."

Ryan and Todd interpret the film Barbie while responding to both leftist and rightist critiques of the film. They discuss the film's exploration of fantasy, its highlighting of contradiction, and its emphasis on the role of desire in politics.

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Why Theory brings continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory together to examine cultural phenomena.

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