Thanks to five crucial scenes, Greta Gerwig’s movie enters the tear-jerker movie canon.
Kens might have shed a self-aware tear in the face of Ryan Gosling’s portrayal oflike he’s tackling multiple movie genres at once. He’s simultaneously in a comedy, a western, a musical, an action movie, an old Annette Funicello/Frankie Avalon flick, an extremely upsetting remake of, and a rom-com. He’s also, at times, in a drama, having a flipped version of the existential crisis Barbie experiences.
It takes place when Robbie’s blonde bombshell finds herself sitting on a bench in Los Angeles next to an older woman played by 91-year-old Academy Award–winning costume designer Ann Roth. Barbie looks, awestruck, into this woman’s face with all of its wrinkles and absorbed wisdom. Having only ever resided in the toy-populated Barbie Land, Barbie has never seen a creature like this before: a lady who has actually aged. “You’re so beautiful,” Barbie says, as if she’s just seen Jesus.
Indeed, what’s so special about this sequence is how seemingly minor yet groundbreaking it is. When was the last time you went to a movie — let alone a massive, mainstream movie — and saw a woman in her ’90s described as beautiful? Robbie’s admiration and Roth’s assurance make it feel as though a new cinematic language for Hollywood female characters is being invented right in front of us. Although really, what Barbie and her new friend are saying isn’t, “You’re beautiful,” or, “I know it.
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