Greta Gerwig found inspiration for Kate McKinnon's Weird Barbie from several sources, including a popular YA novel, The Giver.
The Big Picture With Barbie finally available on digital platforms, we can marvel at how fantastic life in plastic really is from the comfort of our couch just in time for the holidays. There are many different Barbies living in Barbieland, from Margot Robbie's protagonist to a stranger version of the doll, Kate McKinnon's Weird Barbie. Her existence within this realm is certainly amusing, given how perfect everything and everyone is all around her.
The novel is set in a society that seems utopic at first but is gradually revealed to be dystopic as the story progresses. Society has gotten rid of all sorts of memories and emotions, all of those being passed on to a single individual, the one they call "the Receiver of Memories." The Elders of this society select one Receiver per generation, having them train with the Receiver from the previous one, who becomes the Giver.
An interesting aspect of this comparison is precisely the use of colors. In The Giver, the Receiver of Memories is the only person who can see life in color, while everyone else only sees it in black in white. In Barbie, all of Barbieland has a color palette in which pastel tones are predominant, especially pink and blue, but Weird Barbie, on the other hand, wears combinations of bright colors.
With Weird Barbie, a clear reference is, of course, Morpheus in The Matrix. There's a pretty obvious scene in which she offers Stereotypical Barbie a choice: go back to her blissfully ignorant existence and forget about her new flat foot, or venture into the Real World to find the person who's playing with her and making her have all the depressing thoughts she's been having. The moment itself is reminiscent of when Morpheus offers Neon the same choice using red and blue pills.
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