Did my best friend and I go to see Barbenheimer? Yes.
Did we love Barbie? Yes.
Am I a second-wave feminist? Basically, yes.
Want to know more? Listen to our first ever Leading Ladies podcast conversation!
Alli, one of my best friends, has been my movie-going buddy for years. When we lived in Brooklyn, we used our Movie Pass app and our CitiBikes to catch all of the movies worth seeing in the years 2017 to 2019. We would ride our bikes home and talk about the films. It was one of our favorite city past-times. I always wished I had recorded some of those conversations — and now we finally have!
I painstakingly edited our recording and reduced our hour and a half long chat to a run time of 59 minutes and 22 seconds, including the goofy little intro music I made with Apple Loops. I am very proud of the final product.
In my humble opinion, our conversation is worth your time! We cover everything you need to know about the movie, why you should see it, and why we liked it.
My understanding is: you can listen online or on the Substack app, or you can download the RSS feed into your podcast app.
Let us know what you think! Leave a comment, like, subscribe, share! Tell us if you want more! Go see Barbie and share your thoughts in the comments here!
But be warned: if you’re a man, and you’re going into the experience defensive or if you’re a woman, and you’re going into it feeling triumphant, you will miss the subtleties of the cultural critique. Go into it with an open mind. What do you have to lose?
Show Notes
00:00 - Intro: Barbenhiemer & the movie-going experience
2:45 - Plot Overview
5:45 - The film I’m forgetting about is 2001: A Space Odyssey
11:15 - Low key spoilers
14:45 - Here’s where we get more into analysis and our experience of the film
29:00 - Our personal experiences as women in the world
33:30 - Shoutout to Sean and Ben!
35:45 - Is this movie “political”?
36:50 - We address the Ben Shapiro issue
40:00 - Where we talk about Ken: is this a portrayal of a “weak man”?
44:50 - How the film confronts men and women
48:00 - Side tangent: John Adams mini-series and how it depicts masculinity and femininity
52:00 - Concluding thoughts and comments; standout Barbie moments
58:29 - Outtake
✨BARBIE✨