A lack of cultural nostalgia attached to the toy and wariness of the film’s feminist messaging may have kept the Korean audience away from the Hollywood mega-hit: "There is no real fan base for ‘Barbie’ in Korea.”

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    All the Ken’s care about are Patriarchy, horses, and mini-fridges, because they were given no rights or ideas of their own before Ken went to the real world, and he was only there for a few hours.

    It’s not a critique of men in general.

    • synae[he/him]
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      61 year ago

      Any dude getting personally upset about the portrayal of the Kens is telling on himself

    • @Stanwich
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      21 year ago

      That would be an argument if they men in the real world weren’t portrayed the same way. They shit on men in both worlds.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Some of the men were, others were shown to be normal. They really only showed a handful of real world men anyway, and Ken got all his inspiration from a few corporate suits (and honestly, a lot of male suits do act like that).