The wait is finally over, because the curtains are being peeled back in the Barbie main trailer, and so many things that were teased finally make sense. This film is directed by Greta Gerwig, who also joins the crew as a writer along with Noah Baumbach. It stars Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Simu Liu, Emma Mackey, Ncuti Gatwa, Hellen Mirren, Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Alexandra Shipp, Kate McKinnon, Dua Lipa, Scott Evans, Nicola Coughlan and Ritu Arya, alongside other cast members.
While the trailer initially starts off by showing us the protagonist going through a series of unmanageable changes in her life, we also see her take stock of her mortality as a Barbie. While everyone is trying to have fun and be their most beautiful self, this character is just now figuring that things are not going to get better in Barbieland unless she does something for it. This movie is about her adventure to the real world, outside of her comfort zone, living among the people who played with her as kids and also those who only hope to put her back in the box.
However, this is just scratching the surface of what it is like in the land of pink clothes and people so frivolous that everything must be explored in detail. We start off by seeing Robbie in her signature pink outfit wearing her heels and floating down from her roof to the floor where everyone is hanging around. Someone mentioned that Barbieland always looks artificial, and it makes sense because the sky looks too true blue and the sun too orange, their clothes too pink, and their hair too perfect.
Things are changing for Robbie’s character, though. She falls off her roof, and her feet have turned flat, no longer staying in their perfect arch. The other problem is that her life has now unequivocally changed. Parties were normal, choreography and dances were normal, but existentialism isn’t normal; confiding in other Barbies is normal, but having something wrong is not normal. Things are perfect here; cold showers are not a thing.
She goes over to the outcast Barbie, the one too odd for anyone to have a conversation with, and she tells her that she should go to the real world to find out why things like that have happened to her. She desperately doesn’t want to go. She wants to stay in her heels forever, the way it was intended. But she walks out of the land, with Ken. He has a sense of entitlement so high that even security doesn’t manage to dissuade him of any notion like that.
Barbie comes to the real world and is confused about why certain things are how they are. She punches a guy after he slaps her butt, and the two of them even end up in prison. We see Robbie talking to multiple girls in school, and her illusion that Barbie is, in fact, everything has broken so much of her spirit that it seems like she won’t be able to fight things unless she has been guided through the journey by a mentor who is ready to tell her the truth.
The internet is losing their mind with the release of the trailer. Many of the social media interactions that fans had with the content came alive on screen with the trailer. It brought all the elements that made it brilliant and maximised it so hard. The heels, the foot arch, the he’s just Ken thing, the rollerblading outfit, they all came together like puzzle pieces fitting perfectly.
Barbie Main Trailer
Barbie will be arriving in theatres on July 21, 2023. Were you excited to see the existential turn this trailer took? Let us know in the comments below.
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