"We brought it from home with us. It’s magical, it’s sacred…"

(As everyone has already said, the central music scene is insane & overwhelming in the best ways possible — i watched it with mouth agape & chills thru my body & the beginnings of tears in my eyes)

As a whole, this film feels to me too inventive & richly layered in its thematic threads to fully process in a single watch. I hope to revisit this soon, but for now, it has…

This was fun & pretty & absurd at times, but i’m not sure it’s saying anything new. Having experienced first-hand the violence of the image of this so-called "stereotypical Barbie" and the feminine ideal she embodies, i didn’t need to be reminded that the experience of being a woman is painful & contradictory and ideas last f o r e v e r. I’m living it. I love and respect Greta & her work, but i wish we hadn’t received this interrogation of womanhood…