Luis Martinez
Updated Monday, March 11, 2024-04:34
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Ryan Gosling
himself
ran, it was unclear whether to put out the fire or add some more fuel.
"There is no Ken without Barbie. And there would be no
Barbie
movie
without
Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie
," said the actor in the midst of a storm as soon as the nominations for the
Oscars
were known and as soon as it became known that not even the first one entered the directing category. (perhaps forgivably given the competitors) nor the second in the leading actress section (in a completely incomprehensible way considering that Carey Mulligan and Annette Bening did so with two very debatable films).
If we added to this that Ken-Gosling appeared twice as a supporting actor and as the voice of the song
I'm Just Ken
, the expression comparative grievance acquired a new dimension.
Suddenly, everything Greta Gerwig's film talks about made sense;
sense of reality even.
It was misunderstood that the Mojo Dojo Casa House was incorporated so quickly into the furniture of the Hollywood Academy.
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And consequently, perhaps embarrassed,
the gala made an effort from the first second to close the wound
.
First Jimmy Kimmel strung together all kinds of self-incriminating jokes in the introduction.
All bad.
Then Gosling himself laughed at each of his muscles in the company of Emily Blunt.
And shortly
after
, again Ran Gosling dazzled with his interpretation of himself and his character.
Probably the big moment of the gala.
But, nevertheless, there was no way.
That the eight nominations for the Mattel doll have remained at
an Oscar
after being, as it is, not only
the movie of the season
(1.5 billion dollars attest to this) but also the center of all the controversies, of all The debates, all the enthusiasms, all the disappointments and all the condescending or irritated gestures, confirm that
Barbie 's wear and tear has been proportional to
Oppenheimer
's reaffirmation
.
The physicist lost the battle at the box office and won it in everything else.
The curious thing is to witness the rare spectacle of seeing how a film with a friendly gesture, an original and festive script, and with an unquestionable ability to connect with the public (with theaters full of people dressed in pink) has ended up devoured
by any of the wars. cultures
that devour us.
On the one hand, she was accused of what any cultural product (film or not) that closely or distantly identifies with feminism is accused of.
America Ferrara's frontal speech
at
the heart of the film was read as a provocation, an interference and, in depending on what circles, even an attack.
And yet, the applause in the room (in any of them) in the face of what is simply a waterfall of evidence gave little option to its most fundamentalist critics
.
To some extent, this reaction was expected.
The film seeks her and desires her.
It is part of the fun and even of the argument.
But the really strange thing has been the furious and somewhat delayed reaction from the progressive ranks, those at home from the point of view of
Barbie
herself ;
the same ones that, initially and without any mediation, would have subscribed to what was written by
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig
in the script point by point.
The praise for the film that, on first reading, made a nice pedagogy of a fair, and therefore feminist, creed, while ironically pointing out patriarchal vices, became lances.
I didn't like that feminism was commercialized, I didn't like that feminism was used to sell dolls or movies, I didn't like that a doll that for decades had symbolized the perfect objectification of the perfect woman suddenly and magically became perfectly the opposite...
But above all he didn't like success.
Success has neither epic nor equestrian nor pain.
And if it doesn't hurt, the ABC of the so-called culture of effort says so, there is no reward.
The simple pleasure of what is intelligent bothers, irritates, seems, by definition, suspicious.
As it was, the humiliation was fulfilled by land, sea and air.
By the right and by the left.
It's already sad that in a movie about Barbie;
a film that is presumed, loved and shown to be feminist, the applause inside and outside the cinema, inside and outside the Oscar ceremony, goes to him.
Not her.
Poor Barbie.
So rich with her 1.5 billion and so poor at the same time.