The far right is constantly warning that if you go woke, you’ll go broke. But when it comes to the new Barbie movie, they couldn’t be more wrong.
Barbie, which follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they leave Barbie Land to explore the real world, earned a whopping $162 million in its opening weekend, Variety reported Monday. This is the biggest opening weekend of the year, and the biggest opening weekend for a female director ever.
The film had already made $22.3 million at the domestic box office from Thursday previews, the biggest preview haul of the summer. It blew the previous record of $17.5 million (made by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May) out of the water.
What makes it “woke”, and how does celebrating capitalism score points in the culture war?
I’ve been wondering the same thing.
I did see a preview a few weeks back where Ken was in a hospital talking to a woman and he asks to talk to a doctor instead and she said she is a doctor and Ken replies something like you can’t be a doctor because you’re not a man and then asks if he can perform the operation instead and she said no because he isn’t a doctor and Ken walks off calling out for a male doctor… Which makes me think maybe Ken later on in the movie learns in not cool being a misogynistic cunt and all the RL misogynistic cunts are upset about being called out… I donno, that’s the best I got so far