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Why “Barbie” is smarter than all the other nominated films combined
Status: 26.01.2024 | Reading time: 2 minutes
“Without Barbie, no Ken”: Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling
Quelle: Everett Collection/Warner Bors/picture alliance
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Ryan Gosling expressed disappointment that he was nominated for a “Barbie” Oscar, unlike the two women responsible for the film in their categories: Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig. What his look means and why we don’t forget him.
Critical frown, pressed lips, white shirt: actor Ryan Gosling didn’t look at all familiar at the Critics’ Choice Awards, where the musical ballad he sang “I’m Just Ken” was awarded best song – and with it Billie Eilish’s “Barbie” song “What Was I Made For?” stood out. Gosling’s reaction spread as a meme on the Internet. His facial expression alternated between amusement, disbelief and feminist disillusionment.
The next shock, the next indication on the meta level that “Barbie” might be right in observing that women still have to work a hundred times as much as men to receive the same recognition, hit the film world a few days later: Gosling was nominated by the Oscar jury for best supporting actor – but Greta Gerwig as director and Margot Robbie as leading actress came away empty-handed, despite being nominated eight times for “Barbie”. Gosling now verbally expressed his disappointment, which he had previously expressed with facial expressions: “Without Barbie, there is no Ken.”
Ryan Gosling bei den Critics’ Choice Awards
Quelle: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association
“Barbie” is the film of the year not because of its incredible success at the box office, but because it comments on most of the other Oscar-nominated films – and not just the films, but also the way we deal with them, i.e. the way we watch films today how we talk about them, what space we give them.
While the genius biopics “Oppenheimer”, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Maestro” nominated for “best film” degrade the woman to a supporting character alongside the man, while the would-be emancipation drama “Poor Things” lasts two hours cements the mistreatment of a woman in order to then grant her revenge in the last two minutes, Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” takes aim at precisely those plot structures that have become so firmly anchored that we hardly notice them anymore.
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Barbie turns everything around: not only by self-deprecatingly declaring Ken a supporting character, but also by giving him a half-hearted moment of liberation at the end, which is under the admittedly unforgiving motto “I am Kenough”.
Anyone who senses that Gosling’s justified criticism calls for quotas or reduces it to the statement that only women should win prizes, or even that feminist films should be prize-winning per se, has understood neither “Barbie” nor feminism. And, by the way, lives as far away from the reality of life as millions of enthusiastic filmgoers around the world, as feminism is often accused of.
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