He trades in his pink cotton shorts for a hyper-masculine ninja-slash-biker(?) outfit and a floor-length fur coat he installs an excessive amount of giant flatscreen TVs all over Barbie’s Dreamhouse, as if it’s a sports bar he starts singing about wanting to take Barbie “for granted” in an acoustic rendition of Matchbox Twenty’s “Push.” Finally, his tyranny dissipates into self-pity during an elaborate musical soliloquy called “Just Ken,” in which he asks: “Is it my destiny to live and die a life of blond fragility?” After stowing away with Barbie on her quest to the real world, Ken gets a taste of the patriarchy, and his alienation mutates into a childish misogyny. Always an Instagram boyfriend, never an influencer. He ruminates in the shadows, just outside Barbie’s disco spotlight. Played with an innocence that could only come from the cobwebbed Mickey Mouse Club corners of Gosling’s mind, Ken struggles to find his own self-worth. The Sheer Scale of ‘Oppenheimer’ The Often Wacky, Sometimes Wicked, and Always Wondrous Eras of Barbie The Complete Guide to Everything Barbenheimerįrom this unsatisfying environment emerges the most complex Ken to date.
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