Can Anything Good Come from Barbieland? What a Plastic Doll Can Teach Us about Becoming More Human

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough,
Massachusetts. For more information,
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by Mary Frances Giles


The 2023 blockbuster film Barbie has been both praised and
censured by critics and moviegoers alike. One reviewer referred
to it as "joyous from minute to minute," while another claimed it
is "very pretty but not very deep." Far from just being a story
about a pink plastic doll, the film asks important questions
about the nature of reality via themes of gendered power
struggles and the imminence of death. Drawing from the Biblical
narrative, this lecture will seek to look at those themes through
the lens of our shared humanity and hope for our lives beyond
"Barbieland."


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