"The ‘Barbie’ movie as therapy" - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/08/12/barbie-film-therapy-cognitive-dissonance/
"After spending time in the real word, Barbie — becoming more humanlike as minutes pass — does what most of us do when we face the discomfort of cognitive dissonance: She engages in psychological avoidance and turns to a quick fix to feel better.
Many of us return to the comfort of our earlier beliefs, which for Barbie is a return to Barbieland, where she can validate her view that the world is perfect, that women run the world, and that there is no danger.
You can’t run from reality
Barbie arrives to an unrecognizable land run by Ken — a place more akin to the real world — ruled by patriarchy and no longer perfect. She faces dissonance again, but this time, the discomfort is so great that she avoids it by laying on the ground in misery.
The human Gloria, played by the actress America Ferrera, then delivers a monologue about the impossible and contradictory expectations for women. Her words illuminate the dissonance that we all live in and by doing so, incite change."
~ Perspective by Luana Marques
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