Comment on The more I think about it, the more the 5 minute car commercial in Barbie bugs me.

• LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And the Mojo Dojo Casa House ‘selling like hotcakes.’ And the CEO pooh-poohing a ‘regular barbie’ before immediately reversing course when he’s told it’ll be super profitable.

  Honestly it’s got shades of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, that weird dichotomy of Charlie Brown depressed by the rampant consumerism of the holiday season bookended by Hallmark ads with the new peanuts ornaments. But the lesson the special teaches is to find your own meaning in the holiday, and that it is inviolable by the consumerism so long as it still means something else to you.

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  • MargotRobbie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m glad that you got it exactly right. ☺️

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    • LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are so many good conversations going on in that movie, everyone I talked to who had watched it said it was good but I was not prepared for just how many topics it covers so artfully. And god, I could listen to Ferrera’s monologue over and over again.

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