The dilemma of Barbie, heels or Birkenstock? -Lifestyle

Barbie's dilemma: stiletto heels or Birkenstock? The doll for 64 years most loved and hated by girls is put in front of this question having to face the real world in the new film directed by Greta Gerwig that will arrive in theaters on July 21st. A new trailer offers intriguing insights into the plot: to pose to the Barbie played by Margot Robbie the alternative of Arizona model sandals so far unthinkable in Barbieland is a Weird Barbie with uncombed hair and a painted face to which Kate McKinnon lends the caustic spirit so often demonstrated on Saturday Night Live. "You can go back to your perfect life or discover the truth about the universe," Barbie, who has already known the real world, tells Barbie Weird with an oracle. The choice between pink stiletto heels and Birkens are the equivalent in Gerwig's film of the blue and red pills of The Matrix. All this happens because things in Barbieland for Barbie have taken a strange turn: nightmares, cold showers.
Instead of floating in the air from the roof of the Barbie House, Barbie falls on the pickled pink candy. And the feet: no longer preternaturally arched to enter the iconic heeled shoes, but now they are flat: "Have you ever thought of dying" asks Margot/Barbie during one of the perfect parties in Barbieland leaving the other dolls horrified. And so here is the choice to go out, with Ken (Ryan Gosling) in tow, in a world much less perfect than the plastic one to which she is accustomed. On the beach of Venice Barbie tries her hand at rollerblades and a man who has stretched out his hands at Venice Beach. She is arrested and photographed at the police station, while people from the real world (America Ferrera) are amazed because a flesh-and-blood Barbie walks through the streets of Los Angeles. Mattel CEO (Will Ferrell) is beside himself and threatens every measure to "put that Barbie back in the box", but in the meantime Ken enters a hospital determined to do emergency surgery. In short, a crazy event of which it is still difficult to make sense. In an interview with Vogue posted this week, Gerwig, who wrote the film with partner Noah Baumbach, said her film is inspired by Old Hollywood productions, such as the 1948 Red Shoes directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger or Jacques Demy's 1964 musical Les Parapluies de Cherbourg: "They both have a high level of authentic artificiality," said the director of Little Women: "The tangibility of artifice is something we have resorted to all the time." (ANSA).