Perspective: Barbie’s journey from Barbieland to the real world and back shows how we can use the gift of cognitive dissonance to change our lives.
In Barbieland, everything and everyone, including all the Barbies , are perfect — pretty, intelligent, cool and never sad. The perfection of Barbieland allows Barbie to form beliefs such as “women are powerful, they can do anything, they run the world, they are perfect.”
To fix this dissonance and avoid reality, Barbie takes a trip to the Real World, believing that her problems will be solved if she can find the child who is playing with her and cheer them up.In the Real World, Barbie’s dissonance grows. Los Angeles isn’t what she predicted — it’s not perfect, and women aren’t in charge. Her belief that “the world is perfect, women rule, everyone loves me” doesn’t match reality.
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. You may find it hard to believe that the Barbie movie could serve as a form of therapy. Seeing cognitive dissonance play out in a fantasy movie such as “Barbie,” however, can help us understand difficult concepts and apply them to our own lives.Hit the pause button:
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