Greta Gerwig’s take on the toy line centers on a version of Barbie (Margot Robbie) whose ostensibly perfect life is interrupted when she develops flat feet and irrepressible thoughts of death.
There’s a phrase in trauma healing, “the thing that used to help you has now got you stuck.” What saved me before is now hurting me.
SEAWRIGHT There’s a difference in life, and in film characters, between what the character wants and what they need.
DECKER Barbie wants everything to just keep going the way it’s going.
Perspective-taking allows her to make a shift, to let go of the thing that worked for her in the past and to walk into a future that’s going to work for her.
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Greta Gerwig’s, Barbie, Margot Robbie, I’m, I’ve, SEAWRIGHT