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What Is Greta Gerwig Trying to Tell Us?

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I love the Barbie movie memes of people going to the theater expecting a fluffy good time and finding themselves inexplicably crying. It’s a deeper, more thoughtful, more feelings-y movie than any toy-based entertainment really needs to be. And yet, it was not totally clear what all those jokes about the patriarchy are meant to add up to. Fortunately for us, New York’s Allison P. Davis set about to figure it out, watching the movie three times over opening weekend and deep-diving into director Greta Gerwrig’s previous films to try to decode Gerwig’s real message. Allison takes the movie just the right amount of serious as she tours through the many layers of feminist awakening baked into one hot-pink dreamhouse of a movie.

—Genevieve Smith, features director, New York

What Is Greta Gerwig Trying to Tell Us? From Barnard to Barbie, the director has always been interested in female ambition, including her own.

Illustration: Agnès Ricart
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