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RE: Opinion: Barbie The Movie / Tu opinión importa #5: Barbie la película (EN/ESP)
I was never a Barbie fan, I know my mother doesn't like her at all, maybe that's why I never had one. I suspect many little girls grew up wishing to be like their expensive and "perfect" doll.
I haven't seen the movie, and I surely won't play it to my daughter. I saw a few reviews which didn't recommend it. If I have the time I would see it to have my own opinion, which I suspect won't be pro Barbie.
I never liked dolls. I had a babydoll, a hard plastic one. Can be it was modern back then. The only thing I did was cutting its hair most likely I was about 2-3 years old, my mother was furious. I doubt I ever played with it. I am happy my parents never gave me dolls. I don't like to say thanks for something I don't want.
I don't think the Netherlands was a country where all girls want to have or look like or be Barbie ever. I doubt the doll was that important to a girl's happiness. The doll looks american and so is the 'need' to look like one. Did you see the first dolls, what the heads look like? To us these are American faces and not beautiful.
Dressing a 3-4 year old like a 30 year old model with layers of makeup and let her expose herself is not what we do either. Will never understand why parents do this and next complain the child is harrashed.
We never understood those american mothers who demanded barbie should change her looks. Those same mothers who treat their daughters like dolls. To the average Dutch mother it's not even an issue. A doll is a toy just like a tedfybear or playmobile doll. No one wants to be a teddybear, a dinkytoy car, superman, baby born or barbie. Not here.
Dutch people are too sober for this nonsense and I'm happy I'm not raised by a culture like that. It's always about competition, being the best, bragging I can do everything get each job (same attitude shows Barbie), typical for people with low self-esteem just like shouting, raising the voice, not being able to discuss.
My elder daughter (30) watched it and she was shocked that's how the discussion started (she's animator, film maker and we always discuss films from a young age on) and the youngest saw it a few months later, my son did not.
My daughters and I share the same opnion but can be we watch films differently. We don't sit play a film, eat popcorn and talk while watching. We watch and observe.
My daughter (elder one) wrote a review about Barbie which perhaps make people reconsider what exactly they've been watching.
Films do influence behaviour, do have (hidden) messages about who to dislike, like, who's the good or bad guy, how to behave, there's a lot of tunnelvision if it comes to wars fought and the change of the true meaning of words.
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts.
It's better not to pick up any message at all as the wrong message.
A great Sunday
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