The blockbuster film, with ticket sales of $1.4 billion worldwide, is the highest-grossing movie ever directed solely by a woman.
Along with the massive box-office figures forhave come outpourings of commentaries and analyses about the film. Gerwig says she intended the movie to get big reactions from people. “I wanted to make something anarchic and wild and funny and cathartic, and the idea that it’s actually being received that way, it’s sort of extraordinary,” Gerwig commented tomovie was released. “I think it was a particular ripple in the universe that allowed it to happen.
In the “real world,” Ken discovers what it feels like to live in a patriarchal society where men have most of the power. Ken and Barbie cross paths with Mattel’s bumbling and pompous CEO , who wants to put Barbie and Ken back in their doll boxes. Meanwhile, another Mattel employee named Gloria and her Barbie-doll-hating adolescent daughter Sasha end up playing important roles in the story.
The film’s skewering of male supremacy clearly touched a nerve among some conservatives, garnering accusations of being man-hating, “woke,” and antifamily and even provoking calls for a
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